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Description of my issue:
This is more a general issue to see if you've ever heard of this before. The information above does pertain to all the sites.

I have a reseller account with Hostgator. I kick off a cron backup on the first of each month for my sites. Out of nowhere, a new cron job showed up, running the same Akeeba job, but on specific days in May (4, 12, 14). I did not add them. I've talked to Hostgator support and this has been escalated to the third level now. I Googled and didn't see anything like this. Every Joomla site I'm hosting had a new backup cron added except one, 1 Wordpress site did not add a new cron job, and three sites without cron did not have one added. Cron jobs unrelated to backup appeared normal and did not have additional jobs added. No one else has access to my WHM or to the specific cPanels.

Have you ever heard of this happening before?

Thank you for any insights you might have.

Thank you for your response. They want to charge me $75 to investigate it further. They did tell me they alll were created a year ago (the same date and time they ran this year). I can also see they were created within minutes of each other, which I couldn't do manually. My biggest concern was some kind of evil hack or something.

I'm inclined to just log this and remove the duplicates and move on rather to continue looking into this. Even more inclined after your response. If you think this is important to pursue from a security point of view, can you let me know? Otherwise, I'm done with this.

Thanks so much for your help.

Anne

Hi Davide,

Thank you so much for your help. I appreciate your advice!

Anne

P.S. If you want to make this public in case someone else runs into something like this, I'm find with that.