Was my word press hacked???

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    theblondeontherun55e4828331 · Member ·

    I think my wordpress was hacked. Under my photo it has the name of my website ‘theblondeontherun’ but then under that it has @theblondeontherun55e4828331 I never made that?

    I also want to basically delete this and use another domain I purchase ‘the golden getaway’ but don’t know how to switch it. How do I do this?

    I don’t have a site linked to this WordPress.com account

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    staartmees · Member ·

    Nothing has been hacked! But It seems you have 2 wordpress.com accounts: theblondeontherun created in 2017, and theblondeontherun55e4828331 created in 2020.
    Just log out from current theblondeontherun55e4828331 and log in again as theblondeontherun.

  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    Hi there,

    Your website, http://theblondeontherun.com/, isn’t hosted on WordPress.com, but was built using the open source WordPress software, at another hosting provider.

    You have that site connected to WordPress.com via the Jetpack plugin, under the theblondeontherun55e4828331 username account you used to post here. This account was created two years ago when you first activated the Jetpack plugin.

    This WordPress.com account is separate from the admin user account you use to log into your site directly, but you haven’t been hacked – a WordPress.com account is a requirement to use the Jetpack plugin, so it’s normal that you have both a WordPress.com username account, and an admin user account for your site.

    (There is also an account on WordPress.com with the username, theblondeontherun, but that account has no connection at all to your website at http://theblondeontherun.com/, so it’s not related to this issue at all.)

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