Title: WordPress Hack?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# WordPress Hack?

 *  [trueahriman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trueahriman/)
 * (@trueahriman)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-hack-1/)
 * Hi!
    Today I had a little surprise when I received a message that a new user 
   was registered on my site even though it didn’t allow new user registration and,
   also, my admin password was changed. What was even stranger, the new user was
   registered with administrator privileges! How could this happen? Thank you!

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 *  [govpatel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/govpatel/)
 * (@govpatel)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-hack-1/#post-1900552)
 * You need to change you host account password as soon as possible and change your
   wordpress admin user name and password.
 *  Thread Starter [trueahriman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trueahriman/)
 * (@trueahriman)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-hack-1/#post-1900559)
 * I only have one admin user name and user in WordPress, for that matter. I changed
   the password to this account…
    As for the host… that is a random generated password,
   with a bunch of letters and numbers randomly chosen… Should I change it anyway?
 *  [govpatel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/govpatel/)
 * (@govpatel)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-hack-1/#post-1900560)
 * Did you check if there was any thing odd in your server if there any files altered
   with code that will the hacker change your user name password.
 *  Thread Starter [trueahriman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trueahriman/)
 * (@trueahriman)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-hack-1/#post-1900562)
 * I talked with my web-hosting people and they said that it was purely a WordPress
   issue. My anonymous ftp accounts are disabled and there was no new user added
   in my cPanel database, from what I could see.
    I have several sites on the same
   web-hosting account but only one got hacked (all based on WordPress).

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## Tags

 * [hacking](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/hacking/)
 * [Registration](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/registration/)
 * [unauthorised](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/unauthorised/)
 * [user](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/user/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 4 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [trueahriman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trueahriman/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-hack-1/#post-1900562)
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