Site lockout due to hack attempts
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Over the past week, I have been experiencing literally hundreds of hack login attempts on my WordPress-based website, from multiple foreign IPs, with lock-out notification emails like like this one sent daily:
A lockdown event has occurred due to too many failed login attempts or invalid username:
Username: admin
IP Address: 5.188.62.147IP Range: 5.188.62.*
Log into your site’s WordPress administration panel to see the duration of the lockout or to unlock the user.
As of right now, I am STILL unable to log into my site’s admin portal (link provided above).
My site is hosted by Digital Ocean, and they say that I must try configuring the WordPress firewall, and/or Wordfence settings.
If so, my assumption is that I must do this via an FTP client, directly with the server, seeing as I am unable to log into my admin portal?
If not, how so?
Either way, would GREATLY appreciate some advice, as I cannot use my site.
Many thanks and best,
KTC
The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]
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