Title: unauthorized access?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# unauthorized access?

 *  Resolved [wordpressorguser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wordpressorguser/)
 * (@wordpressorguser)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unauthorized-access/)
 * hello to you! yesterday there was a user online named “alex” although there are
   only two users: the admin and another named mark. i do not allow registration
   and comments are also off. so i don’t know where this alex comes from. he’s even
   not shown in the userlist. is this an illegal hack?
 * i updated from wp 2.0.3 to 2.0.4 two weeks ago using the update-kit. yesterday
   i changed password, but today in the morning he was online again.
 * i am really worried because i feel that my website is not longer secure at all.
   
   what can i do to find out where wp gets this name from, when it is not in the
   userlist? how can i find out if this person changes something on my website?
 * i would be very happy if there’d be a help outside!
    mika: [http://www.coggy.de](http://www.coggy.de)

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 *  Thread Starter [wordpressorguser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wordpressorguser/)
 * (@wordpressorguser)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unauthorized-access/#post-469814)
 * ok me myself again. one possible answer: its alex king. somehow he’s recognized
   from the system. (?)
 *  Thread Starter [wordpressorguser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wordpressorguser/)
 * (@wordpressorguser)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unauthorized-access/#post-469817)
 * that would be the most positive solution 😉
 *  [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/)
 * (@vkaryl)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unauthorized-access/#post-469818)
 * It’s possible it was a trackback rather than an actual “alex king logged in somehow
   and left a comment”….
 * I don’t think the “system” recognizes the devs etc. I could be wrong, frequently
   am, but it just doesn’t seem likely.
 *  Thread Starter [wordpressorguser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wordpressorguser/)
 * (@wordpressorguser)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unauthorized-access/#post-470032)
 * Yes. Maybe I#m too unexperienced with all this. I just wanted to find an answer.
   Because a user in the list, which is not known to me makes me a little nervous,
   as far as my site is somehow part of me. So if there is someone else logging 
   in…
 * I don’t know if I have the name of the user in my statistics if he/she only trackbacks
   me. Somehwo the inner funtions of wp then must exchange user account names. Maybe
   they do. I have to keep getting some knowledge on this.
 * Thanks a lot for the answer! mika.
 *  Thread Starter [wordpressorguser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wordpressorguser/)
 * (@wordpressorguser)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unauthorized-access/#post-470092)
 * ok. me again. only one thing if somebody is interessted: in my setting trackbacks
   and pingbacks are and were off.
 *  Thread Starter [wordpressorguser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wordpressorguser/)
 * (@wordpressorguser)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unauthorized-access/#post-470093)
 * doesn’t anbody got similar experiences?
 *  Thread Starter [wordpressorguser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wordpressorguser/)
 * (@wordpressorguser)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unauthorized-access/#post-470101)
 * ok. problem resolved. i#m a little sorry for the nervous asking, but i was really
   in fear, someone is manipulating my site. the solution is: my stat-plugin has
   defined arrays for visitors with static ip-adresses. so a some for google etc.
   and there is also an array for:
 * ‘Alex’ => ‘ia_archiver’
 * I think that`s a little too personal for a bot. And inside the stat-plugin the
   search engines and bots should not be listed in the wp-users list.-
 * But first of all: excuse my excitement. thats a personal probem 😉 mika.

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