700 failed login attempt

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  artistsshelf · Member · Aug 10, 2016 at 8:40 am

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  someone is trying to crack my wordpress website password and since yesterday i have got 700 failed login attemps. Need urgent help on this….pls help

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  artistsshelf · Member · Aug 10, 2016 at 8:42 am

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  someone is trying to crack my wordpress website password and since yesterday i have got 700 failed login attemps. Need urgent help on this….pls help
  and my website is chungistore.com

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  kokkieh · Staff · Aug 10, 2016 at 11:07 am

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  Hi there,

  I don’t see any record of failed logins or password reset attempts on your WordPress.com account. What is the URL of the site where you are seeing this?

  If it’s a self-hosted WordPress website that means it’s not on our servers, so we have no control over your site security. For a self-hosted site you’ll need to contact your hosting provider for help, and maybe consider a plugin like VaultPress to add extra security to your site.

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  thebingediariess · Member · Aug 10, 2016 at 11:17 am

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  I suggest you do the classic: Change the password.

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  kokkieh · Staff · Aug 10, 2016 at 12:49 pm

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  @birchsilver

  Always good advice, but it won’t prevent someone from still trying to brute-force the new password. A good security plugin on self-hosted sites can do that by blocking login attempts if too many are made in a certain period. We already do that here on WordPress.com, but that functionality isn’t built in on self-hosted WordPress websites.