Title: Big problems after changing admin
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Big problems after changing admin

 *  [stefaantje](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stefaantje/)
 * (@stefaantje)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/big-problems-after-changing-admin/)
 * I wanted to help somebody after they were hit by brute force attacks from China.
 * First things first, they still had the default admin login.
 * So I changed that using the WordPress functionality for that within users.
    I
   didn’t do it via phpmyadmin because they didn’t know their password anymore.
 * It seemed it was ok. But it wasn’t. Images are gone, links to images are broken,
   posts and pages ended up in trash instead of live. And I don’t have an user anymore
   with id=1 in the database.
 * All of a sudden some people couldn’t login also anymore.
 * So lots of problems. How do I solve this mess? Any suggestions as, you’ve guessed
   it by now, their shitty webhost didn’t have a backup also.
 * Thank you in advance

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/big-problems-after-changing-admin/#post-3739025)
 * Did you work your way through these resources?
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_My_site_was_hacked](http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_My_site_was_hacked)
   [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/268083#post-1065779](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/268083#post-1065779)
   [http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com/2008/06/24/how-to-completely-clean-your-hacked-wordpress-installation/](http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com/2008/06/24/how-to-completely-clean-your-hacked-wordpress-installation/)
   [http://ottopress.com/2009/hacked-wordpress-backdoors/](http://ottopress.com/2009/hacked-wordpress-backdoors/)
 * Anything less will probably result in the hacker walking straight back into your
   site again.
 *  Thread Starter [stefaantje](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stefaantje/)
 * (@stefaantje)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/big-problems-after-changing-admin/#post-3739113)
 * To be clear, they weren’t hacked. You misunderstood my question.
 * All problems startend after I created a new admin, deleted the unsafe default
   admin and attributed all posts to the new admin.
 * That went horribly wrong.
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/big-problems-after-changing-admin/#post-3739115)
 * Do you have a pre-change database backup?
 *  Thread Starter [stefaantje](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stefaantje/)
 * (@stefaantje)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/big-problems-after-changing-admin/#post-3739116)
 * Unfortunately no.
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/big-problems-after-changing-admin/#post-3739118)
 * Do the hosts? By the sounds of it, your database has been damaged.
 *  Thread Starter [stefaantje](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stefaantje/)
 * (@stefaantje)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/big-problems-after-changing-admin/#post-3739124)
 * No, I’m going to need to work this out myself I guess.

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 * [changing](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/changing/)

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 * 6 replies
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 * Last reply from: [stefaantje](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stefaantje/)
 * Last activity: [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/big-problems-after-changing-admin/#post-3739124)
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