Locked user account

The user account is locked because a hackerbot or spambot attempted to login to your site and locked that user account. Around early 2014, Brute Force attacks increased significantly and are steadily increasing.

See this forum topic for additional things you can do to prevent this from happening repeatedly: http://forum.ait-pro.com/forums/topic/user-account-locked/#post-12634

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The Login Security & Monitoring Automated Email Alert now contains additional help information about what to do if your User Account is being repeatedly locked.
Brute Force Attack General Info: Automated Brute Force Login attacks by spambots and hackerbots are a regular and ongoing type of website attack. The volume and frequency of Brute Force Login attacks are steadily increasing and will continue to increase. Brute Force attacks make up somewhere in the neighborhood of 85 percent (probably more like 90 percent to 95 percent) of the total of all types of ongoing website attacks these days. BPS Login Security & Monitoring protects the WordPress Login page from Brute Force attacks, but if your username is publicly known/displayed or can be harvested by automated bots then your user account may get locked very frequently. Check the BPS plugin Whats New page for some additional things you can do to prevent your user account from being locked repeatedly.

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Thread Start Date: 5-21-2015 to 5-22-2015
Thread Resolved/Current Date: 5-26-2015