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  robinorangejanus22909 · Member · May 25, 2020 at 11:30 pm

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  When I signed up for jetpack it said connecting as robinorangejanus22909. That isn’t my name but it did have my correct website name listed above it. Was the robin name created randomly by jetpack? Or did someone hack my account?

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  staff-zinnia · Staff · May 26, 2020 at 3:22 pm

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  Hi –

  There’s no evidence of the account being hacked. What is the WordPress.com username and site that you’re working on?

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  robinorangejanus22909 · Member · May 27, 2020 at 11:38 pm

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  The username is cycy and the site is reviewshewrote.com.
  Also, every time I go to login into wordpress it says the password is wrong. I’ve changed it many times. That is also why I thought my account was compromised too. Just now I had trouble with the password and I had typed it correctly.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · May 27, 2020 at 11:41 pm

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  I think you’re just confusing how Jetpack operates. :)

  Since Jetpack brings WordPress.com features to your self-hosted WordPress.org site, it requires a WordPress.com account, much like how a plugin which brought Facebook features to your site would require a Facebook account.

  And, that WordPress.com account is entirely separate from how you log in to the site. So, you’d log in to the site as cycy, but it is connected to your robinorangejanus22909 WordPress.com account.

  Almost all of Jetpack’s features make use of heavy processing power (Photon the image CDN, related posts indexing), heavy database usage (stats), or require connections to third-party systems that can be very complicated to setup by yourself (Publicize’s automated sharing to social networks, email subscriptions, etc).

  We take care of that all on WordPress.com’s server cluster so your hosting provider doesn’t suspend you for using excessive resources.

  In order to do any of that, we need a WordPress.com account.