Blocked IPs / GDPR

  • Resolved wpblogwriter

    (@wpblogwriter)


    6 years, 4 months ago

    Hi,

    I have read through a couple pages regarding your GDPR compliance and also went through (I think) all settings items.
    I can’t find any information about how long the IPs are stored within WordPress regarding blocked IPs. In the dashboard, I can see that last week, these X IPs were blocked but when I click on the button “Update blocked IPs” I see no IPs as there is only a table for current blocked IPs, not the ones from before..

    So my questions:
    – how long are the blocked IPs stored?
    – is there a way of manually or automatically remove them?
    – what happens with the IPs which are shared over the Security Network? How long are these IPs stored? Are the IP and the site name of the reporting WordPress instance anonymized?

    Thank you for help

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  • Hi @wpblogwriter,

    Blocked IP stats shown on the dashboard are collected from Live Traffic. How long they are retained is determined by the Live Traffic setting in your Options (1+ days). You can have them automatically removed daily if you set it to one day.
    IPs sent to Wordfence are kept for 90 days unless they are still behaving maliciously. They are removed once they stop being malicious or 90 days, whichever is later. This data is not anonymized.
    Kerry

    Thread Starter wpblogwriter

    (@wpblogwriter)

    Thank you for the information.

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