Title: HELP ! Potential hack attempt ?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# HELP ! Potential hack attempt ?

 *  [sabinou](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sabinou/)
 * (@sabinou)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-potential-hack-attempt/)
 * Hello there guys.
 * I write in potential emergency, because my blog has potentially been the target
   of a hack attempt, and with very little chance, who knows, it may have had success,
   even though I doubt it…
 * I need your opinion, in other words.
 * I just received this email, 18 months after I created my blog :
 * title :
    _New WordPress Blog_
 * Body :
 * _Your new WordPress blog has been successfully set up at:_
 * [http://www.myblog.net](http://www.myblog.net) [I’m sorry the URL needs to stay
   private]
 * You can log in to the administrator account with the following information:
 * Username: admin
    Password: User already exists. Password inherited.
 * We hope you enjoy your new weblog. Thanks!
 * –The WordPress Team
    [http://wordpress.org/](http://wordpress.org/)
 * —–
 * Do you guys think this is a hack attempt ?
    And if so, do you think it has succeeded?
   Given I have a long and complicated password for the admin account, I doubt it
   can be brute-forced, but well, I use an old wordpress version, 2.1.3.
 * Thank you VERY much for your opinion and advice 🙂
 * I would hate to discover some day that an iframe has appeared on my blog or that
   the ad banners have seen their code replaced with someone else’s code…

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 *  Thread Starter [sabinou](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sabinou/)
 * (@sabinou)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-potential-hack-attempt/#post-713526)
 * Erm, just one ping, if someone has his idea about it…
 *  [benzilla](https://wordpress.org/support/users/benzilla/)
 * (@benzilla)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-potential-hack-attempt/#post-713765)
 * This has happened to me as well… and curiously, my blog reverted to the fresh
   install screen as well. I’ve repaired and changed password (which was already
   pretty strong: non-dictionary, letters and numbers, non-alphanumeric stuff, 12
   characters). I really don’t know what to make of it.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [benzilla](https://wordpress.org/support/users/benzilla/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-potential-hack-attempt/#post-713765)
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