Title: Brute Force Failed
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Brute Force Failed

 *  [Dallen Harris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dallenharris/)
 * (@dallenharris)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/brute-force-failed/)
 * Hello, love the plugin and everything is all good though I keep getting these
   emails of “bruteforce protection failed on [mysite]”:
 * User blocked
    IP:2a01:7c8:aabb:597:5054:ff:fe5f:b1f4
 * User blocked
    IP:2607:f298:5:102f:0:0:c46:44d
 * User blocked
    IP:2a03:6f00:1:0:0:0:5c35:70c1
 * With Cloudflare error of “Invalid Target”
 * What do you think? I have hundreds of these on a popular site.
 * When it shows just an ip the email that I get says: “bruteforce protection on[
   mysite]”
 * User blocked
    IP:209.105.244.234
 * User blocked
    IP:85.128.142.45
 * etc etc.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/supersonic/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/supersonic/)

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 *  [Greyleg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/odeskumair/)
 * (@odeskumair)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/brute-force-failed/#post-7011836)
 * Got exactly the same message on Jan 31. Interested to know what exactly this 
   means.

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 * Last reply from: [Greyleg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/odeskumair/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/brute-force-failed/#post-7011836)
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