Something/Someone just hijacked my plugin a publshed random posts

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  • December 19, 2018 at 11:08 pm #559714
    web@ntv.ca
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      Around midnight mytime tonight, 8 posts of unknown origin suddenly published to my Facebook/Twitter accounts. They did link to pages on my website, but I cannot find these pages anywhere on my site. Nor are they in posts section. As far as I can tell, something at 12:05AM (NST) grabbed control of my SNAP plugin, and randomly posted 8 posts that contained gibberish text and links to non-existant PDFs.

      Anyone else experience this before?

      December 26, 2018 at 6:03 pm #559724
      NextScripts
      Keymaster

        Please check your Log/History page and let me know what do you have there after that incident.

        December 27, 2018 at 7:53 am #559728
        web@ntv.ca
        Participant

          Thanks for you response, I was able to determine afterwards that one of my users setup a REALLY bad password and it was brute forced by a bot. After removing that user the problem went away.

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