Title: Continuous Lockouts
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Continuous Lockouts

 *  Resolved [lotsoflovelily](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lotsoflovelily/)
 * (@lotsoflovelily)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/continuous-lockouts/)
 * I am getting tons of iThemes emails saying that my own user has been locked out.
   My IP address is whitelisted, but I do not want these emails to continue, is 
   there why way I can get iThemes to stop trying to lock myself out of my site?
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 *  [dwinden](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dwinden/)
 * (@dwinden)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/continuous-lockouts/#post-6463448)
 * Those lockouts are happening for a reason …
    They are the symptom of a brute 
   force attacks to your website. Just switching off the lockout emails (for which
   a setting exists) is like an ostrich burrying his head in the sand … so that 
   is not recommended.
 * Your website is probably leaking your WordPress username to login …
    So presumably
   botnets are trying to brute force your password using that username … I sure 
   hope you are using a strong password … If not change it to a strong password **
   IMMEDIATELY** !
 * To stop or at least minimize brute force attacks from hitting your website you
   could try and enable the iTSec plugin **Hide Backend** setting. Change the default‘
   wplogin’ **Login Slug** into something only you know (in any case not ‘lotsoflovelily’).
   
   Oh by the way, this will generate an extra reminder email …
 * After this change you will probably not receive any new lockout emails. But sure
   let us know if they continue …
 * Next I recommend you create a new administrator user (with a different nickname)
   and transfer all content to that new user.
    Then delete the old administrator
   user.
 * lotsofsecuritydwinden
 *  Thread Starter [lotsoflovelily](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lotsoflovelily/)
 * (@lotsoflovelily)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/continuous-lockouts/#post-6463594)
 * Thanks! That has fixed the problem!
 *  [DidoH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/didoh/)
 * (@didoh)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/continuous-lockouts/#post-6463706)
 * Hi there,
 * I am receiving so many emails that I am unable to release the lock out. How do
   I login in order to do the steps above?
 * Thanks!
 *  [dwinden](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dwinden/)
 * (@dwinden)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/continuous-lockouts/#post-6463707)
 * This topic is marked as ‘resolved’.
    Please create a new topic for your issue.
 * dwinden

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

 * 4 replies
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 * Last reply from: [dwinden](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dwinden/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/continuous-lockouts/#post-6463707)
 * Status: resolved