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Jan Rymarz on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] Ongoing Hacks ... attempted passwords"

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Hi,

My website has undergone a day or two of hacking attempts.

This has happened before when someone actually managed to create a new user etc. That was sorted, passwords strengthened etc and I set the system to lock users out of signing after three failed attempts.

So, now I have 11 failed attempts just today.

In each case, the IP address is different(quoted in the email from Wordpress). Sometimes, I also see a hostname (usually a Russian site) but would it be possible to also see the failed passwords??

If they were general ones (eg "123456", "password", "admin" etc) then IMHO it would point to a brut force attempt, but more personal guesses would be otherwise.

Is it possible to find out what those failed password attempts were?

I ask because my admin username is far from standard and the first nine attempts used that username. The failed passwords would shed some light (maybe).

Thanks in advance.

J

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