Site hacked

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  eblalock · Member · May 14, 2018 at 7:50 pm

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  I believe my site The Laundry Years, has been hacked. Almost daily I get multiple notices that I have new followers. All email addresses are from outlook, and the one time I went to my site I saw no new visitors. Please investigate.

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

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  mouli · Staff · May 15, 2018 at 6:06 am

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  Hi,
  Frustrating isn’t it!
  This is a known issue that is being addressed.
  It is discussed in this forum post:
  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/weird-followers/?replies=49

  and more here:
  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/weird-followers/page/2?replies=59
  in which a memebr of staff says this:

  Thanks for all the reports. We’re aware of this issue and working block these spam followers. We cannot just block all @outlook.com emails, though, as that will also block many real people from following your sites, so this isn’t just a quick simple fix.

  So it looks like you are not alone and that the folk that fix things WordPress are busy trying to fix it.