Title: Numerous Hack Attempts
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Numerous Hack Attempts

 *  Resolved [Mobster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mobster/)
 * (@mobster)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/numerous-hack-attempts/)
 * I have been using TimesToCome Security Plugin. For the last two days within minutes
   apart, I have been recieving entries like the one below.
    How is this happening,
   is it some sort of logrythem designed to try every 2 minutes? Surely one person
   isn’t attempting to hack this site over and over right?
 * IP: 24.166.82.46 September 29 2009 07:47:17
    Request: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?
   action=wp-compression-test&test=no&1254224831635 Code: Attempted hack Accept:
   text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 Agent: Mozilla/
   5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3(.
   NET CLR 3.5.30729)
 * IP: 24.166.82.46 September 29 2009 07:47:16
    Request: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?
   action=wp-compression-test&test=2&1254224830883 Code: Attempted hack Accept: 
   text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 Agent: Mozilla/
   5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3(.
   NET CLR 3.5.30729)
 * IP: 24.166.82.46 September 29 2009 07:47:15
    Request: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?
   action=wp-compression-test&test=1&1254224830213 Code: Attempted hack Accept: 
   text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 Agent: Mozilla/
   5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3(.
   NET CLR 3.5.30729)

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 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/numerous-hack-attempts/#post-1228700)
 * > Surely one person isn’t attempting to hack this site over and over right?
 * prolly not — they’re scripted attacks that originate from other compromised machines.
 *  Thread Starter [Mobster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mobster/)
 * (@mobster)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/numerous-hack-attempts/#post-1228734)
 * Thanks Whoo!

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 * Last reply from: [Mobster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mobster/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/numerous-hack-attempts/#post-1228734)
 * Status: resolved

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