To many login attempts emails coming through…

Security plugins typically have settings for how long the particular user is locked out for the failed log-in attempts, and for how many attempts are allowed. When that period expires, you can reset the period if you like, once you get access again.

The bigger issue though, is that it sounds like your username is ‘admin’ and so you get locked out when this unwanted activity occurs. Best thing to do (if I’m right about that assumption) is to create a new user account for yourself with admin privileges. Then when you delete the ‘admin’-username account, you will be given the opportunity to assign content from that account to your new user. Once you do that, you can set a rule to immediately lock out anyone trying to use ‘admin’ to log in.

Before doing the above, be sure to create backups of your site and especially your database, just to be safe.

EDIT: If you don’t want to wait for the lockout to expire, have a look at this article from the plugin authors about how to get past the lockout:
https://ithemes.com/security/fixing-ithemes-security-lockouts/

Andrea:

Follow Bill’s advice and the issue should get fixed. Unfortunately, it sounds like the admin account is being locked.

You will need to wait until the account becomes unlocked and then login to create a new user.

If the account keeps getting locked, you can create a new user through your MySQL database although this can be fairly technical if you have never used a database before.