Xscape4u — a hacked tourism website, rebuilt clean

Xscape4u is a travel business. As at 28 September 2026, its website lists handpicked lodges, camps and hotels in destinations from Limpopo and the Western Cape to Botswana, Zanzibar and the Seychelles, and its property pages take general enquiries and booking enquiries.

When Xscape4u was referred to us, its site had been compromised: links to offshore casino sites were being injected into it. Google’s spam policies define hacked content as “any content placed on a site without permission, due to vulnerabilities in a site’s security” (as at 28 September 2026). We explain how hacks like this work, and how they are cleaned up, in our article on casino-link and SEO-spam hacks.

The developers who had been helping Xscape4u could not fix the compromise, and Xscape4u chose to move to us.

Xscape4u has been a client since 2026. We rebuilt the entire platform. We extracted the site’s data and left the hacked content out, so the new site started clean instead of inheriting the compromise. In our terms it was a website rescue, done as a rebuild.

As at 28 September 2026, this is how the rebuilt site works for Xscape4u’s customers. They browse the properties by destination or by collection, such as safaris, islands or last-minute stays, or search for one. A property page, such as the one for Ants Hill in the Waterberg, shows the room rates and any specials, with two buttons. “Enquire” opens a short form for a general enquiry. “Book Now” opens a booking enquiry, which asks for check-in and check-out dates, adults and children, the room type, and any dietary requirements, allergies or special occasions. The site takes both kinds of enquiry, not confirmed bookings.