My blog is "marked private by its owner." Can't log in.

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  kranzmonkey · Member · Sep 23, 2013 at 2:53 pm

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  I know there was a similar issue on WordPress’ end back in April, but now it’s hit one of my other sites, legalethicsinmotion.com. When I try to open it up, I get the following message:

  “http://legalethicsinmotion.wordpress.com is marked private by its owner. If you were invited to view this site, please log in below.”

  Nothing was touched prior to this issue, and unfortunately, none of our logins work at the moment. Is anyone else having this problem?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  kranzmonkey · Member · Sep 23, 2013 at 2:54 pm

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  Please ignore the “The blog I need help with” part at the bottom. The blog having the issue is legalethicsinmotion.com. I’m a contributor there, but not the main admin and couldn’t select it at the bottom of the page to submit this. Thanks!

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  timethief · Member · Sep 23, 2013 at 2:58 pm

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  I’m a contributor there, but not the main admin and couldn’t select it at the bottom of the page to submit this.

  Please contact the person with the username account who registered the blog and who is the Admin who made you a contributor by email. Or click this link in the private blog notice to contact them http://legalethicsinmotion.wordpress.com/?action=request_access&redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Flegalethicsinmotion.wordpress.com&nonce=ea7773216b

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  kranzmonkey · Member · Sep 23, 2013 at 2:59 pm

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  She’s the one who asked me to fix it. None of our logins, including the Admin login, work at the moment.

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  timethief · Member · Sep 23, 2013 at 3:03 pm

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  The person with the Admin account who registered the blog is the only owner of the blog and that person needs to recover the account by using the account recovery process. She must visit https://en.wordpress.com/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword
  and click the “Need More Help” link to complete the form for account recovery. https://en.wordpress.com/wp-login.php?action=recovery

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  kranzmonkey · Member · Sep 23, 2013 at 3:11 pm

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  I’ve passed this along to them and will update once I hear back, but in the meantime, this looks strangely like the issue that previously happened here.

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  jackiedana · Member · Sep 23, 2013 at 11:22 pm

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  The site legalethicsinmotion.com is hosted by Hostgator, not WordPress.com, so we will not be able to assist you with regaining access to that site.

  Note that legalethicsinmotion.wordpress.com is now pointing to that site, but is not the underlying hosting provider at this time.