Blog hacked?
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Hello, posts are being made without my permission. I revised the password to something very strong, and yet it continues to happen. I don’t know how else to check for a compromised blog.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi there,
I see that a number of spammy blog posts are being posted using your Post By Email address. You can read more about that feature here: Post by Email
This can happen if someone finds out your secret post by email address. (It doesn’t give them any access to your WordPress.com account — it only allows them to publish posts by emailing them to that secret address.)
To stop those spammy posts, you can either regenerate your secret address or delete it entirely (disabling the post by email feature on your blog). The link above has instructions showing how to manage those settings, but please let me know if I can do anything more to help with that.
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Rachel, thank you so much! I’ll do that now. FYI, I never received an email notification that you wrote this, sorry for the delay. Not in spam, nothing… I use gmail… I thought I was subscribed to this post automatically. I only saw it when I came to double check just now…
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You’re welcome! About the email notification, do you have the Social and Promotions tabs in Gmail? Sometimes our email notifications end up in one of those tabs instead of the main inbox.
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