Title: Lost administrator status.
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Lost administrator status.

 *  [brnbus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brnbus/)
 * (@brnbus)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-administrator-status/)
 * When I registered my website with WordPress it created an administrator account
   so I could work and change on my website as I pleased. Now have lost total admin
   user privelages on my website after a hacker apparently tried to access it. I
   have made several attemps to log in when the system would not recognize my username
   and password, so I re registered with the same username and changed my password
   to the old one that I always used to make changes on my dashboard. Now I suddenly
   have no contents on my dashboard. I am just a normal user now and can change 
   nothing to my website. I am still on version 3.4.1 because I cannot update anything.
   How do I regain my administrator status.

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 *  Moderator [cubecolour](https://wordpress.org/support/users/numeeja/)
 * (@numeeja)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-administrator-status/#post-4124485)
 * Do you have a database backup taken before the hack?
 *  Thread Starter [brnbus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brnbus/)
 * (@brnbus)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-administrator-status/#post-4124789)
 * Hi
 * Thanks for the reply. No, no backup’s.
 *  [shamratdewan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shamratdewan/)
 * (@shamratdewan)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-administrator-status/#post-4124790)
 * you need to remove access of hackers first. then perhaps manually update wordpress.
   then change the old admin user email to your email address in your database users
   table.

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## Tags

 * [administrator](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/administrator/)
 * [lost](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/lost/)
 * [status](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/status/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [shamratdewan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shamratdewan/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-administrator-status/#post-4124790)
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