In the case of detection of a compromised website, urgent steps must be taken to stop the cyber-attackers from retrieving information from the platform’s databases and not to affect the security of the visitors’ computer systems.

The email address of the website or server administrator can be taken from the contact section of the website, or it can be taken using the Whois query. Whois is a response protocol that is used for querying databases that store the assignees of an Internet resource, such as a domain name. For a specific domain it can be used whois-search.com platform to find the email of the registrant company.