Title: Blog Hacking?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Blog Hacking?

 *  [ratinski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ratinski/)
 * (@ratinski)
 * [21 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blog-hacking/)
 * I just had this problem tonight. I noticed that there was spam on my blog that
   should have been caught in the moderation queue, and when I checked, all of the
   common spam words had been removed from the moderation box. Further checking 
   revealed there were two new users on my blog, that e-mail notification to me 
   had been disabled, and that the box to allow anyone to register as a user was
   checked. I’m almost certain that I had unchecked that last option when the blog
   was set up. Has anyone else had this problem? I’ve already changed my password
   as a precaution, but I wanted to get some opinions about this too.

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 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [21 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blog-hacking/#post-141358)
 * It’s possible. Any password can be hacked, not just those in WordPress. I prefer
   to cycle my passwords monthly. Also, make sure you’re running v1.2.2.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * Last activity: [21 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blog-hacking/#post-141358)
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