All Posts Found Deleted After Period of Inactivity
-
Hello to whomever may be reading this. My account, Adolescentmuser, is one I formed on this Website 3 years ago and to which I’ve posted perhaps one public essay with the rest set to “private” and inaccessible to anybody but myself. I’ve remembered this website’s existence every now and then and logged in not so long ago to check it’s status (albeit not to post anything new). Some time had passed without me accessing it until the time/date at which I type this: 7th /May/ 2015. Upon entry, I notice that it had reserved my profile picture (which is a quote on a white background) but with all works as though I’d just made this account – gone. Now, my first idea had been that this transpiration is but a penalty for being inactive for a while, in which case the lack of a warning I consider to be of the foulest distaste from the staff of WordPress. Assuming a warning had been sent and to which I paid no attention, unintentionally of course, it still rests in eerie policy to remove a community member’s posts simply because he/she had been inactive (plus a combination of a lack of popularity of his/her site as an addendum). An explanation as to why this may have occurred would be truly appreciated, especially to easy my mindset increasingly bent on suspecting that a hacker had taken leisure with my account.
Thank you
Sincerely,
AMThe blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
-
-
You have to be logged in as Admin http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#administrator under the exact same username account that registered the blog to access the blog’s dashboard.
Clicking this link should display all your blogs registered under the same username, including the hidden ones: https://dashboard.wordpress.com/wp-admin/index.php?page=my-blogs&show=hidden
If you do not see the blog here http://en.support.wordpress.com/my-blogs/ then
follow this guide > http://en.support.wordpress.com/my-blogs/#my-blogs-dashboard-visibilityIf you have lost your log-in information you can visit https://en.wordpress.com/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword
If required please complete the form for account recovery at this link https://en.wordpress.com/wp-login.php?action=recovery and submit it to the Account Recovery Staff so they can contact you by email ie. not on these public support forums which are available to everyone with internet access.
-
re: hacked accounts and blogs
If anyone is posting anything to your blog or removing anything from it, or changing anything in it, or if your blog has been deleted and you did not delete it, then it’s most likely that you have provided them with the ability to do so, either deliberately by adding them as official users, or by allowing them access to your login information, or by posting content that makes it easy for them to guess what your log-in information is.
For you the question that needs to be answered is: Who, aside from me, has access to my login information?
Go to your email program immediately and change the password to a very difficult one because that’s how many hackers gain access to blogs.
Read > http://en.support.wordpress.com/security/
1. If you can log-in go here > Users > All Users and delete any user that does not belong there.
2. Disable post by email > http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-by-email/
3. Disable post by voice > http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-by-voice/
4. Change your blog password to a very difficult one > http://en.support.wordpress.com/passwords/#change-your-password
You can also reset your password via your Settings tab on the WordPress.com home page:
http://wordpress.com/#!/settings/5. Use a secure, encrypted connection to connect to your Dashboard. Under Users → Personal Settings, check the box that says “Always use HTTPS when visiting administration pages, and click Save Changes.
6. Use two step authentication http://en.support.wordpress.com/security/two-step-authentication/
7. Run a security scan on your computer.
8. Never leave your computer logged into your blogs and walk away from it. Always log out properly.
P.S. Staff have records of who did what under which username and login information and when they did it. I flagged this thread for a Staff follow-up. Please subscribe to it so you are notified when they respond. To subscribe look in the sidebar of this thread, find the subscribe to topics link and click it. Note that there is a backlog and be patient while waiting.
- The topic ‘All Posts Found Deleted After Period of Inactivity’ is closed to new replies.
WordPress.com Forums 