Site lockout due to hack attempts

  • Over the past week, I have been experiencing literally hundreds of hack login attempts on my WordPress-based website, from multiple foreign IPs, with lock-out notification emails like like this one sent daily:

    A lockdown event has occurred due to too many failed login attempts or invalid username:
    Username: admin
    IP Address: 5.188.62.147

    IP Range: 5.188.62.*

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

    As of right now, I am STILL unable to log into my site’s admin portal (link provided above).

    My site is hosted by Digital Ocean, and they say that I must try configuring the WordPress firewall, and/or Wordfence settings.

    If so, my assumption is that I must do this via an FTP client, directly with the server, seeing as I am unable to log into my admin portal?

    If not, how so?

    Either way, would GREATLY appreciate some advice, as I cannot use my site.

    Many thanks and best,

    KTC

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • A lockdown event has occurred due to too many failed login attempts or invalid username:

    Are you using a security plugin(s) to prevent massive login attempts? That’s a plugin message, not a WP core one.

    Thread Starter kcapo442

    (@kcapo442)

    Thanks for the reply. I’m not certain; I did recently download a plugin to bulk-delete comments, as I get hundreds of mass-generated ones daily…

    Still, the issue for me remains, how do I log into my admin portal, if I a continuously locked-out by these multiple hacked login attempts?

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