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igwebs
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Thank you. That was very helpful. He was coming through Twitter Tools plugin and I cleared him out on the settings page.
Eeek! THIS Twitter Tools!?
http://ww.wp.xz.cn/extend/plugins/twitter-tools/
How did that happen?
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igwebs
(@igwebs)
No sure. He was using it and bit.ly, not sure how he got in but I changed the Authentication Unique Keys along with the password and anything else I could change. So far that seems to have stopped him. He was just using the site to create back links.
Twitter password too, I hope.
Ugh. I wonder if it’s related to Twitter’s recent changes.
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igwebs
(@igwebs)
No, I don’t think so. His links used bit.ly but didn’t do them right so the link goes to a 404 page. But it did post to my blog which bugged me a lot!
Please be very careful with statements like this:
He was coming through Twitter Tools plugin
From your description this sounds incorrect, and it is potentially damaging and unnecessary FUD.
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igwebs
(@igwebs)
OK, how would you say it?
Alex’s point was why I was (a) hella shocked and (b) wondering how the guy got in.
The guy got in via twitter (Twitter Tools only pulls in from YOUR twitter stream, right?)
I cleared him out on the settings page.
Can you elaborate what you mean here.
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igwebs
(@igwebs)
Ok, I’ll try and remember. On the Twitter Tools setting page, the experimental section was filled in with his stuff. Then on the bit.ly section he had “admin” for a user name. I believe that is all that was there that I had not put in. I hope that helps.
Based on the information you have provided, it sounds most likely this person had/has access to your WordPress admin.
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igwebs
(@igwebs)
That’s possible. Anything is possible!
