Wordpress Inaccessible

[dirtvoyles]

I tried the password retrieval, and it hasn't worked. I hesitate to send up the red flag that I've been hacked, but I don't see any other scenario. (although I am sure there are many)

 

Any ideas of where I can go from here?

[TCH-Thomas]

I think but far from sure, that you can reset it through the phpmyadmin in cpanel using this guide (begin at step 3 when you have found the db in phpmyadmin).

[dirtvoyles]

I was pretty nervous running through that, as I have 0 experience with MySQL, but it was copy/paste simple.

 

Thank you very much Thomas!!!

[TCH-Thomas]

You´re welcome.

[dirtvoyles]

Gee, you think the 3,000+ pageviews I've been getting with 50 unique visitors have been brute attempts perhaps? Seems weird that all other stats are normal, but the pageviews are so high.

 

But why TF me? I dunno, just sucks.

[TCH-Thomas]

Perhaps that page got listed on digg or such a place?

 

You could also submit a ticket and ask a tech to look into it and see if the site was compromised etc.

[dirtvoyles]

I can't imagine I wrote anything that got dugg. I suppose it's possible.

 

If you don't think they'll get annoyed by the request, I would like to have them peer in and tell me what they think.

[TCH-Thomas]

Since you should have gotten an email to reset the password and you never even got that email (I assume) I would ask them to look into it.

[dirtvoyles]

Oh, I got the email to reset, and it told me when I clicked the link that it was "a bad key" or some such.

[TCH-Thomas]

I forgot to say that you should take a look on what email address is listed in your user profile in wp. If not yours, I would say something is definitely wrong.

 

Addition to last response: Ok. (we posted same time)

[TCH-Thomas]

I tried the forgotten password link on a test blog, same result as you. Sounds more like a bug now than a compromised site so I would go check the wordpress forums and see if others have same problem.

[TCH-Dick]

Gee, you think the 3,000+ pageviews I've been getting with 50 unique visitors have been brute attempts perhaps? Seems weird that all other stats are normal, but the pageviews are so high.

 

But why TF me? I dunno, just sucks.

 

 

This traffic was all from a web crawler at glumper.com (aka skreemr.com). I have now blocked this nasty crawler on the server as they don't seem to be very useful or obey robots.txt.