Title: Brute Force assault
Last modified: August 30, 2019

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# Brute Force assault

 *  Resolved [Malaser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/malaser/)
 * (@malaser)
 * [6 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/brute-force-assault/)
 * My admin User name is being used to try and fluke the password. Every 10 minutes
   there is another attempt; always, it seems with a different IP address. This 
   is presumably a workaround the plugins that limit login attempts. If it is set
   for a different time limit the unique (as in use) IP looks like another User.
   
   I could try redirection but I’m thinking just creating another administrator 
   with an unusual user name and either suspend or entirely delete my present user
   name. To do this I’d like to transfer my current forum contributions to the new
   User name. I have very reliable and frequent backups both on the server and downloaded
   to an external hard drive so I’m covered to that extent. I can test this procedure
   by using a duplicate installation on CPanel but I thought I would mention it 
   here first, just in case my reasoning is flawed, or there may be better ways.

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 *  Plugin Author [Asgaros](https://wordpress.org/support/users/asgaros/)
 * (@asgaros)
 * [6 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/brute-force-assault/#post-11909034)
 * Hello [@malaser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/malaser/)
 * Currently it is only possible to assign posts/topics to another user when you
   delete a specific user.
 * If you are used to use database-query I can provide you a snippet to do it manually
   inside of the database. Just let me know.

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 * Last activity: [6 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/brute-force-assault/#post-11909034)
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