Title: Wordfence hack attempts
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Wordfence hack attempts

 *  Resolved [The MediaMan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/the-mediaman/)
 * (@the-mediaman)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordfence-hack-attempts/)
 * I keep receiving a message that:
 * “A user with IP address 212.227.28.58 has been locked out from the signing in
   or using the password recovery form for the following reason: Exceeded the maximum
   number of login failures which is: 20. The last username they tried to sign in
   with was: ‘admin'”
 * How do I stop this message?!! I’m getting about 1 every 5 minutes?!
    THanks

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 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordfence-hack-attempts/#post-5701039)
 * I would expect there’s a setting somewhere to stop this. Alternately, setup your
   email client to automatically delete such messages.
 * For specifics of how to alter WordFence behavior, please ask where the WordFence
   experts are: [https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wordfence](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wordfence)
 *  Thread Starter [The MediaMan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/the-mediaman/)
 * (@the-mediaman)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordfence-hack-attempts/#post-5701041)
 * Thanks bcworks,I found an option to manually block by ip address. So at this 
   point I have to login and block the offending ip address. Fortunately there aren’t
   too many

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 * In: [Hacks](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/hacks/)
 * 2 replies
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 * Last reply from: [The MediaMan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/the-mediaman/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordfence-hack-attempts/#post-5701041)
 * Status: resolved

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