Brute Force Attacks

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  lmcree · Member · Apr 27, 2015 at 6:41 pm

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  In the last 72 hours my site has been inundated with Brute Force Attacks attempting, but failing, to get into the site using ‘admin’ for password recovery form. What can be done to block these attacks coming from all over the world. My email inbox is being flooded making it impossible to get any work done. Thanks

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  timethief · Member · Apr 27, 2015 at 6:48 pm

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  Please confirm the exact URL of the site you refer to.

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  lmcree · Member · Apr 27, 2015 at 6:50 pm

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  theskinny.us.com

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  timethief · Member · Apr 27, 2015 at 6:54 pm

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  You are posting to the wrong support forum. We provide support here only for WordPress.COM hosted blogs and those are the only sites our support docs refer to. Your site is not hosted by wordpress.COM and we cannot help you here.

  WordPress.COM and WordPress.ORG are completely separate and have different username accounts, logins, features, run different versions of some themes with the same names, and have separate support documentation and separate support forums. Read the differences here http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

  If you don’t have a username account at WordPress.ORG click http://wordpress.org/support/ and register one on the top right hand corner of the page that opens, so you can post to the support forums there.

  Resetting your WordPress.ORG password http://codex.wordpress.org/Resetting_Your_Password
  WordPress.org support docs are at https://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page

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  lmcree · Member · Apr 27, 2015 at 6:58 pm

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  So sorry! Thanks!

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  timethief · Member · Apr 27, 2015 at 6:59 pm

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  You’re welcome and best wishes.