Title: Hacking WordPress?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Hacking WordPress?

 *  [msummers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msummers/)
 * (@msummers)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hacking-wordpress-1/)
 * In creating a WordPress site, I’m careful about creating Users and passwords 
   that should be hardened. Yet invariably, I’ll eventually see a brute force attacker
   begin using one of my User names, with a dictionary on the password. How is that
   possible that they have used a legitimate user name? Also, is the username case
   sensitive? Over the past month I have had nearly 2000 attempts to login using
   a correct user name, although the capitalization was not correct. I’m baffled
   as to how that could have happened. Any ideas?

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 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hacking-wordpress-1/#post-5096137)
 * Because if you view the page source of a post, you can see the author’s ID. That’s
   how they get it.
 *  Thread Starter [msummers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msummers/)
 * (@msummers)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hacking-wordpress-1/#post-5096140)
 * Oh, gosh. How silly of me! So would it make sense to create a different author
   name than used to login?
 * Thanks for the enlightenment.

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 * Last reply from: [msummers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msummers/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hacking-wordpress-1/#post-5096140)
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