Title: Hacking/Locked Out
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Hacking/Locked Out

 *  Resolved [ldragonc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ldragonc/)
 * (@ldragonc)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hackinglocked-out/)
 * Someone is repeatedly trying to hack into our blog which is preventing us from
   being able to log in (since the site is then being locked). What do we do?

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 *  [Tim Nash](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tnash/)
 * (@tnash)
 * Spam hunter
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hackinglocked-out/#post-5888679)
 * When you say you are unable to login because you are being logged out, what is
   preventing you logging in?
 * is the login screen simply not loading, or is something giving a specific error
   message?
 *  Thread Starter [ldragonc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ldragonc/)
 * (@ldragonc)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hackinglocked-out/#post-5888680)
 * It was because someone continued to have failed login attempts while trying to
   login as me which would then prevent a sign in for 15 minutes or whatever the
   standard amount of time was. I have since been able to clear things up by changing
   our login landing address.

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## Tags

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

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [ldragonc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ldragonc/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hackinglocked-out/#post-5888680)
 * Status: resolved

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