• I am getting dozens and dozens of login attempts from a personal account belonging to me that is not my main blog account and no one besides me could possibly know about.

    Have I been hacked? What’s going on?

    This is a user account I created and added to my WordPress under its own separate Gmail account, purely for testing out WordPress stuff such as how author accounts work. I never go through with public posts or comments (I just delete them).

    So out of the trillions of usernames out there why am I getting ‘attack’ login attempts only from this secret one and no others?

    I have only this one blog and run it myself. There are no other authors or other people involved.

    Finally –

    The return address on the lockout notification emails is ***my own personal address***. Why is this? Whenever I get “Please moderate” emails about comments awaiting approval, they come from wordpress@[mysitename].org

    All in One v3.8.9

    other plugins:

    Email subscription
    Subscribe Button by AddToAny
    WordPress Importer
    WP Statistics
    WP Super Cache

    Akismet, but it is not activated.

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    A lockdown event has occurred due to too many failed login attempts or invalid username:
    Username: [here it has my ‘test’ username discussed above]

    IP Address: 103.27.127.238
    IP Range: 103.27.127.*

    Log into your site’s WordPress administration panel to see the duration of the lockout or to unlock the user.
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