E-mail “User locked out from signing in”

  • Resolved chicodarave

    (@chicodarave)


    3 years ago

    Hello friends.

    I have received the following e-mail from my WordPress website, is this normal or do I need to worry?
    Do I need to do something?
    What can I do?

    Thank you very much.

    This email was sent from your website X by the Wordfence plugin at Wednesday 17th of November 2021 at 10:00:15 PM
    The Wordfence administrative URL for this site is: https://www.X.com.br/wp-admin/admin.php?page=Wordfence
    A user with IP address 161.97.77.88 has been locked out from signing in or using the password recovery form for the following reason: Exceeded the maximum number of login failures which is: 20. The last username they tried to sign in with was: ‘admin’.
    The duration of the lockout is 4 hours.
    User IP: 161.97.77.88
    User hostname: vmi425442.contaboserver.net
    User location: Nuremberg, Germany

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  • Plugin Support WFAdam

    (@wfadam)

    Hello @chicodarave and thanks for reaching out to us!

    This is simply Wordfence just letting you know that it’s doing its job in protecting your login. It looks like someone was trying to log in to your site using “admin” as the login. I highly suggest if you haven’t already, changing your admin accounts name to something else. Also, I can’t stress enough how important setting up 2FA is for your admin accounts. It’s just another layer of security that is easy to set up and will save you a lot of time.

    https://www.wordfence.com/help/login-security/ has a video guide on how to set up it just in case you had any questions!

    Thanks again!

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