Title: Security Question
Last modified: March 26, 2017

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# Security Question

 *  Resolved [dareadel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/h2ofilters/)
 * (@h2ofilters)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/security-question-21/)
 * Just to report that hackers were able to get into two of my WordPress sites via
   the maintenance login page. I used some complicated passwords but unfortunately
   those websites have been blacklisted. I scanned via sucuri and the culprit was
   the maintenance plugin. Now I have to shell out hundreds of dollars to clean 
   and remove from blacklist.

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 *  [Fruitful Code](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fruitfulcode/)
 * (@fruitfulcode)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/security-question-21/#post-8965563)
 * Hello.
 * Thank’s for choose our plugin and contacting us
 * WordPress is open source CMS, like our plugin. It’s through no fault Maintenance
   plugin that your websites are hacked. Please contact with your hosting provider
   they must solved the problem.
 * To protect your website from hacking we can recommend you to use WordFence plugin:
   
   [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/)
 * Regards.
    -  This reply was modified 9 years, 1 month ago by [Fruitful Code](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fruitfulcode/).
    -  This reply was modified 9 years, 1 month ago by [Fruitful Code](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fruitfulcode/).
 *  Thread Starter [dareadel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/h2ofilters/)
 * (@h2ofilters)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/security-question-21/#post-8965610)
 * What an interesting response!!! Thanks

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 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [dareadel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/h2ofilters/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/security-question-21/#post-8965610)
 * Status: resolved