Hacked email – Spoofing ?

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  nicolascouasnon · Member · Dec 29, 2020 at 10:25 pm

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  My email adress has been used to create kind of ‘pornographic website’ at
  https://nicolascouasnon.art.blog/

  I received two mails about the site creation
  What Can I do ?

  I’m from France and the website is in russian language…

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  nicolascouasnon · Member · Dec 29, 2020 at 10:43 pm

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  I was able to delete pages, ans the website itself

  But how my email address can be used without validation ?!

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  staff-mckluskey · Staff · Dec 30, 2020 at 10:29 am

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  Hi there!

  This account was created and verified some years ago. It’s possible that the password you used was identical to the one you used in another service that was compromised, I’ve seen this happen before.

  It looks like you have already changed your password – make sure to also enable two-factor authentication to increase the security of your account:

  https://wordpress.com/support/security/two-step-authentication/.

  Apart from that, make sure that you use strong and unique passwords for different accounts.