Hacked Blog

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  dkingnu · Member · Mar 12, 2017 at 5:51 am

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  A few years ago I registered gameboygeek.wordpress.com but didn’t do anything with it. Now it appears someone hacked it over the last few days and random blogs are being posted to it. How can I stop that?

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  justjennifer · Member · Mar 12, 2017 at 5:56 am

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  It seems that the above site gameboygeek.wordpress.com was registered here on February 2, 2017

  Is it possible that you registered a very similarly-named site?

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  gemmacevans · Member · Mar 12, 2017 at 11:17 am

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  Hi there,

  As justjennifer mentioned, gameboygeek.wordpress.com was only created a few weeks ago. You are referring to a site a few years old, did you create a site with a similar name using a different user account?

  gameboygeek.wordpress.com is not owned by the account you are logged in to.

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  dkingnu · Member · Mar 14, 2017 at 12:15 am

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  hmmm. I think I had done it under (email visible only to moderators and staff) but it doesn’t appear that I have that login. So I’m not sure but since it was recently registered, maybe I relinquished the name gameboygeek.wordpress.com and someone else decided to take it.

  My current site is at gameboygeek.com and I was originally going to use wordpress for the site but ended up using something else.

  It looked like I had the gameboygeek.wordpress.com feed going through my feedburner so when this new person started putting up blogs it started going out to my email list (which is how I found out about it). But I’ve since removed that feed from feedburner.

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  gemmacevans · Member · Mar 15, 2017 at 3:07 pm

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  Hi there,

  I did a bit more digging and our system shows you owned gameboygeek.wordpress.com a few years ago and deleted it. When you did that the WordPress.com address became unavailable and all the content was removed. I searched for that email address and found no matching users.

  A few years later, the address was recycled and then registered by somebody else. There is more information about recycling blog addresses here:

  https://en.support.wordpress.com/recycling-blog-names/

  So that explains why posts from that site have started to appear in FeedBurner. You haven’t been hacked :)

  Come back to me if you have any questions!

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  dkingnu · Member · Mar 15, 2017 at 3:15 pm

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  Thanks for going that extra effort. I definitely didn’t remember deleting it, but I’m sure I probably did!

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  gemmacevans · Member · Mar 16, 2017 at 10:26 am

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  You’re welcome! I didn’t want it to remain a mystery :)