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jlgaddis on Nov 28, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: 300,000 WordPress hacking attempts and 5 observati...

For future reference, it'd be easier to just add a new administrative user to the database. I've had to do that a few times.

(Alternatively, you can just update the password hash for the existing user account.)

vacri on Nov 28, 2014 [–]

I changed the password and emailed him (Well, I emailed 3 times - twice for a polite 'can I change it' and once for 'I have changed it'). No response. 3 months later, the CEO comes along and says "John Smith can't get into his wordpress website, he thinks it's been hacked" :)

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