Title: Hacking Question
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Hacking Question

 *  [torweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/torweb/)
 * (@torweb)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hacking-question-1/)
 * I manage quite a few WordPress sites and just installed a plugin called Wordfence
   for security scanning. I cannot believe all of the failed attempts at admin login.
   Here are some examples
 * Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation attempted a failed login using an invalid
   username “admin”.
    IP: 188.143.233.30 [block]
 * Bicske, Hungary attempted a failed login as “admin”.
    IP: 94.125.180.90 [block]
   Hostname: arcadiadesign.hu
 * They’re being automatically blocked but can this really be happening. I’m talking
   about 20 WordPress sites…and yes, everything is up to date on all sites.
 * Thanks for any ideas.

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 *  Moderator [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/)
 * (@jdembowski)
 * Forum Moderator and Brute Squad
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hacking-question-1/#post-3453661)
 * >  They’re being automatically blocked but can this really be happening.
 * Sure. It doesn’t take much for people to setup a script and probe for default
   user IDs and weak passwords. That sort of probing happens all the time. It’s 
   automated and they’re not paying attention to your site as much as hoping they
   can get into _any_ WordPress installation.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hacking-question-1/#post-3453661)
 * Status: not resolved

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