Note: This is a historical reference, not a current security baseline. Magento 1 is end-of-life.

Problem description

Magento store is disabled by hosting provider with the following message on frontend:

This Site Has Been Disabled

Contact your service provider for more information.


Cause

Usually that means that one or several Magento patches were not applied and finally it was infected by some malware and disabled by hosting provider to prevent public access to malware.

Solution