New random blog appeared
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I run a blog for the agency in which I work, and all of the sudden under “My Blogs” a new blog has appeared called “Athlete Charities” and I have no idea where it came from. I did not create it and to the best of my knowledge no other employees created it, as I have recently changed the password and no on else has that. Please help me resolve this issue. Thank you!
Blog url: http://apdcares.wordpress.com/The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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That’s extremely odd and I have flagged this thread for Staff attention.
Go to your email program and change the password to a very difficult one because that’s how many hackers gain access to blogs
Read > http://en.support.wordpress.com/security/1. If you can log-in go here > Users > All Users and delete any user that does not belong there.
2. Disable post by email > http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-by-email/
3. Disable post by voice > http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-by-voice/
4. Change your blog password to a very difficult one > http://en.support.wordpress.com/passwords/#change-your-password
5. Use a secure, encrypted connection to connect to your Dashboard. Under Users → Personal Settings, check the box that says “Always use HTTPS when visiting administration pages, and click Save Changes.
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I checked all the stuff you suggested (awesome by the way – thanks) and I am listed as the only user, and the post by emails and posts by voice were both disabled. I noticed, however, that the new random blog is “linked” to my account. There was no option to unlink the blogs. But I want to unlink our blogs since I have no idea who that is. I also just reset the password including capital letters, numbers, etc.
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A blog can be transferred to another account WITHOUT any action on the receiving accounts part – my best guess is that someone tried to transfer the blog to another account and did a spelling error when they put in the account name – the staff should be able to see where the blog came from and either undo the transfer or contact the account that did the transfer so your mystery blog can be sent on to it’s intended owner
@TT – look for a “I lost the blog in a transfer” thread later today
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Thank you both very much for your comments. I’m still new to the blogging world, so there’s a lot of these things that I’m still unsure how to use!! Thanks again! :)
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Ah, that was added by someone who installed the Jetpack plugin and connected it to your WordPress.com account.
If you did not do this, I recommend changing your WordPress.com password and email password (as email can be used to reset your WordPress.com password) ASAP.
Make sure that you use a strong password: https://en.support.wordpress.com/selecting-a-strong-password/
I have removed the blog for now.
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