Title: Spam Attack / Database Issue
Last modified: July 26, 2021

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# Spam Attack / Database Issue

 *  [willthing](https://wordpress.org/support/users/willthing/)
 * (@willthing)
 * [4 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spam-attack-database-issue/)
 * Over the weekend we had a old form we forgot about get attacked. It generated
   about 20k emails and entries over the course of a few hours. I was able to get
   it locked down and stop the issue but now our site is extremely sluggish and 
   when I go to look at the various submissions through another app (CFDB7) they
   either don’t load or load with massively incorrect data.
 * Any advice on this? I’d like to remove all the offending submissions and hope
   that the database runs better but just not sure how best to tackle it. Thanks
   for any assistance!
 * Will
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fspam-attack-database-issue%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [Erik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/codekraft/)
 * (@codekraft)
 * [4 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spam-attack-database-issue/#post-14703119)
 * hello [@willthing](https://wordpress.org/support/users/willthing/)
 * you have to ask the author of cfbd7 what is the name of the custom post type (
   or if there is a table table for this) and delete all the post of that post type
   from mysql (there are also plugins for this) all posts or “truncate” the table
   of cfbd7.
 * But **you should ask the author** who will surely be able to answer you better.
 * ps what kind of attack did you suffer?

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