Title: Is there a plugin… Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # Is there a plugin… * [Jan Schmidt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tesha/) * (@tesha) * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/is-there-a-plugin-3/) * Is there a plugin that can shut down login if there are multiple tries? and notify the admin? * (we got hit by a brute force attack and all they had to do was turn on a bot to keep trying the login… so what if it took 3000 tries!) Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total) * Moderator [cubecolour](https://wordpress.org/support/users/numeeja/) * (@numeeja) * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/is-there-a-plugin-3/#post-2129980) * have a look at **Limit Login Attempts**: [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/limit-login-attempts/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/limit-login-attempts/) * [govpatel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/govpatel/) * (@govpatel) * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/is-there-a-plugin-3/#post-2129984) * I am using this plugin Login LockDown * Thread Starter [Jan Schmidt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tesha/) * (@tesha) * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/is-there-a-plugin-3/#post-2129993) * Thanks folks… * and the shame of it is that one of our less sophisticated visitors didn’t heed the warning his computer gave him… and the hacker killed his computer. grrrrr Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total) The topic ‘Is there a plugin…’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [login](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/login/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 3 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [Jan Schmidt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tesha/) * Last activity: [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/is-there-a-plugin-3/#post-2129993) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics