Strange blog in My Blogs
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Somehow, Flywheel, a blog I have never seen or heard of before appears in the My Blogs list in my WordPress account. First, I’d like you to remove this blog from my account, or tell me how. Second, I’d like to know how in the world it got added to my account in the first place. I’m very concerned about account security as a result of finding this strange blog in my WordPress account.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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No threat to your security – someone tried to transfer a blog to another person / account and did a typo – for blog transfers the software just sends the blog to the new account – the good part is that the old owner is no longer on the blog and they CAN’T GET ACCESS TO ANY OF YOUR OTHER BLOGS – if you can figure out who the old owner was or they come looking for the blog you can transfer it back
If that fails I have flagged this for the staff to help – they can see who the old owner was and send it back
It happens – I gave a blog to someone like that once – sure suprised them
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Our developers are investigating why this happened. I’ve just removed the linked blog from your account.
Just in case, you can change your password at: https://wordpress.com/?ssl=forced#!/settings/password/
Thank you.
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It happened again!
I have 4 new blogs in My Blogs that I have nothing to do with:
- Dalton Law
- Hattiesburg Divorce Lawyer
- Law Firm Internet Marketing Leader – Get Noticed Get Found
- Law Office of Adam Lilly
What the heck is going on? I’ll change my password again, but I’m getting concerned.
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I’ve just removed the linked blogs. What’s the URL of the ‘Law Firm Internet Marketing Leader’ site?
Our engineering team is still working on this issue.
Thank you for the report, we appreciate it.
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I would expect, though this is just a guess, that they are trying to make someone a part of their blogs and his username is very similar to yours. I got five emails for a nurse in Ireland with a similar name just today.
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@kardotim: All the blogs are still showing up. The marketing blog’s address is http://getnoticedgetfound.com/
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@samglover I’ve removed that blog for you. Could you send the URLs of the others you want to get removed? Note that it sometimes takes a little while before you see the blog disappear.
Thank you.
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@samglover – Just for future reference, if it is as raincoaster has postulated and that you are accidentally being added to someone else’s blog, you can leave the blog and it will be removed from your list of sites. Full instructions here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/my-blogs/#leave-a-blog
Unfortunately, I don’t believe that will help the hapless person who either tried to add you to his/her site or transfer a site to you.
If you get an email saying “You are now the owner of the blogwhateveritis.wordpress.com”, then that means that someone has transferred a site to you. Sadly, it doesn’t seem there’s any redress if this happens and you weren’t the intended recipient.
thinking aloud/
@kardotim – Perhaps WordPress.com should have an additional step so that the new site owner has to verify the transfer, otherwise after x number of days, the site reverts to the original owner.
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The “leave blog” option is not showing up for me, probably because these are self-hosted blogs.
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@timethief thanks for tagging but samglover already replied that the linked sites are gone now. Unless you want me to remove more, Sam?
@justjennifer thanks for the suggestions!
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Hi I seem to be having the same problem with unusual unknown blogs showing up in My Blogs in my wordpress.com account. I run a self hosted blog but I use the jetpack functions which require me to sign in to wordpress.com and it should only be showing the one blog, is there a way to remove them yourself? I’ve read the post so far and not found a working solution. Thanks for any help.
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Hi Robert – You have quite a few Jetpack connections. I can remove them for you, but if they’re on active sites and someone else is still using the Jetpack connection, you should transfer it rather than cancel it. If that’s not a concern, though, please just confirm the URLs I should remove.
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Thanks for the reply Eurello. To tell you the truth I have no idea why I should have any jetpack connected blogs other than Odd Random Thoughts. The Digital Community was one I used at one time, but no longer have that blog. As for the others, I have no idea who they are or why they would be connected to my account.
If you wouldn’t mind removing the following I would appreciate it:
http://www.bet-on-realmadrid.com/
http://www.enguzelevler.com/
http://www.gift-shops.org/
http://thedigitalcommunity.com/The only thing I can think of that would of caused this is possibly I commented on these blogs at one time by signing into my wordpress.com account. Is that a possibility?
Thanks for the help.
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Hi Robert – Ok, I removed them all for you. The only way to have a Jetpack connection in your account is if you installed the Jetpack plugin on a site and connected it to your WordPress.com account – definitely not from commenting on someone else’s site. If you’ve never heard of these sites before, please immediately change the password on your account. You can see our suggestions for selecting a strong password here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/selecting-a-strong-password/
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