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Does it store my visitors' data?

Updated Login Security 1.6.0Tested with WordPress 7.1

It records the address, the username typed and the outcome of every sign-in attempt, and of every sign-up it turns away. An IP address is personal data, so that is worth knowing rather than glossing over.

Nothing is sent anywhere — it is in your own database. The records are deleted automatically after the number of days you set, and suggested privacy-policy wording is added to Settings → Privacy for you to edit.

Visitors who never try to sign in leave no record at all.

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The Login Security dashboard in WordPress admin. A green notice reads 1 lockout this week, and the site is fine: 13 attempts were refused, from 4 addresses. Four cards show 13 refused this week, 1 locked out, 4 addresses and 1 signed in. A panel headed You cannot be locked out lists the address you are on, that signed-in administrators are never locked out, and the sign-in page, with a Never lock out the address I am on now button. Below it, Usernames being tried shows admin tried 7 times, marked a real account and no second step.