Someone has hacked my page!

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  gymnazo · Member · Sep 11, 2013 at 11:43 pm

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  Someone is posting blogs on my page without my consent or approval. I got this e mail, and a friend forwarded my blog, but I didn’t post this. How are they doing it, and how do I stop them? I am NOT Yapi Samson, and the post below is NOT mine! I copied and pasted the post below in quotes so you could see what they are posting with my blog information.

  “Please reply back to me immediately
  by gymnazo
  Please reply back to me immediately

  Dearest One,

  Greeting in the name of the lord Almight,my name is Yapi Samson,I need your assistance approval to help me receive my inheritance in your country and make immediate arrangement for me to join you in your contry to continue my education and start a new life.I agreed to give you 25% of the total inheritance for your assistance.

  I Urgently need your assistance on the below list:

  (1) To serve as a guardian of this fund since I am only 17years and invest part of the inheritance in a good business while I go back to school and join you after my schooling.

  (2) To make arrangement for me to come over to your country to further my Education and to secure a resident permit in your country and have a new life.

  Please kindly contact me as soon as you read this mail for more details.

  God be with you.
  Yapi Samson”

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

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  timethief · Member · Sep 12, 2013 at 1:33 am

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  If any person or any bot is posting anything to your blog then you have provided them with the ability to do so either deliberately by adding them as official users, or by allowing them access to your login information, or by posting content that makes it easy for them to guess what your log-in information is.

  Who, aside from you, has access to your login information?

  Go to your email program and change the password to a very difficult one because that’s how many hackers gain access to blogs

  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.

  6. Set up two step authentication http://en.support.wordpress.com/security/two-step-authentication/

  Then read this please knowing that blogs don’t get hacked when security protocols are followed. > http://en.support.wordpress.com/security/

  P.S. I flagged this for Staff follow-up.

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  jackiedana · Member · Sep 12, 2013 at 4:08 am

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  No one should have access to your site unless they have gained access to your WordPress.com login credentials or have access to your email. It’s possible someone has guessed your username and password or is accessing your account from a shared computer, or someone has access to a Post by Email address.

  Please immediately change your passwords for both your WordPress.com account and your associated email address, and either regenerate or delete your Post by Email address here: https://gymnazo.wordpress.com/wp-admin/index.php?page=my-blogs