Wordfence hack attempts

  • Resolved The MediaMan

    (@the-mediaman)


    11 years, 3 months ago

    I keep receiving a message that:

    “A user with IP address 212.227.28.58 has been locked out from the signing in or using the password recovery form for the following reason: Exceeded the maximum number of login failures which is: 20. The last username they tried to sign in with was: ‘admin'”

    How do I stop this message?!! I’m getting about 1 every 5 minutes?!
    THanks

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  • Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    11 years, 3 months ago

    I would expect there’s a setting somewhere to stop this. Alternately, setup your email client to automatically delete such messages.

    For specifics of how to alter WordFence behavior, please ask where the WordFence experts are: https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wordfence

    Thread Starter The MediaMan

    (@the-mediaman)

    11 years, 3 months ago

    Thanks bcworks,I found an option to manually block by ip address. So at this point I have to login and block the offending ip address. Fortunately there aren’t too many

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