I had lot’s of security problems last year. It was our system administrator, one of my first employees, someone who worked for us for 7 years and was our most trusted employee. Basically trying to make work for himself, then when we brought in outside help, he just kept staging breaches and trying to leave clues to point to competitor sites.
Dean, i may be contacting you for that name. Just another thought, the hosting people were messing with you to get more $$$ out of you for fixing one problem, then causing a new one. That’s how our guy worked.