Lost account issue

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  jotstott · Member · Sep 23, 2021 at 9:32 am

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  I made this blog back in 2012 and have not accessed it since. This blog has much personal information on it that I need removed or made private. Someone recently used this blog to dox me online! I tried getting access to my account to delete this blog but have had no luck doing so.

  Please either delete this blog or at the least make it private so people cannot use this information against me.

  Thank you,

  – Justin

  Site: (email visible only to moderators and staff)/about/.
  WP.com: Yes
  Correct account: Unknown

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  divyaab · Member · Sep 23, 2021 at 9:46 am

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  Hi Justin,

  You can set the visibility of that blog to private by editing that particular post. Please check the below tutorial to change the visibility of any post or page, by following this you can set it as private.

  https://wordpress.com/support/post-and-page-visibility/

  Also, if you wish to delete that post then you can check the below document of how to delete a particular post and it will be moved to the trashed folder:-

  https://wordpress.com/support/trash/

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  csabarakasz · Staff · Sep 23, 2021 at 9:47 am

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  Hi there,

  Thank you for reaching out to us.

  First thing to do is to try to go through the account recovery steps.

  https://wordpress.com/support/account-recovery/

  If you can show certain proof of ownership, it is also possible to recover with yout account with the Recovery Form.
  https://wordpress.com/support/account-recovery/#account-recovery-form

  I also added the modlook tag to this thread because if non of the option above would work for you, only staff will be able to assist you if possible.

  I hope that helps!

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  jotstott · Member · Sep 23, 2021 at 9:53 am

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  That recovery form does me no good as I no longer have the email associated with my account from 2012. I can provide alternative means of ID proof if needed.

  My username associated with this account is steelersinsider86

  But again the recovery form does me no good as the account is from 2012 and has not been accessed since then. The information on that blog needs to be deleted! I don’t even need access to the account or blog, just the about me page removed.

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  csabarakasz · Staff · Sep 23, 2021 at 9:56 am

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  I understand. Thank you for the additional information.

  In this case, only Staff will be able to assist you if possible. They will respond as soon as they can. Thank you for your patience.

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  jotstott · Member · Sep 23, 2021 at 10:00 am

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  Thank you, the internet has changed a lot since 2012 and I put way too much personal info on there. It was used against me last night on Twitter.

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  aleone89 · Staff · Sep 23, 2021 at 11:05 am

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  Hello there,

  I’m able to make the site: https://kidhtml.wordpress.com/ private for you and the account owner has been informed.

  I hope this helps!

  Let us know if we can be of any further assistance.

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  jotstott · Member · Sep 23, 2021 at 11:20 am

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  Thank you very much!!!