Someone Trying To Log In To Forum Using My Name


09redviper

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I got the same notification as well : The person trying to log into your account had the following IP address: 209.222.8.196
 

Specracer

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Me too last night, That IP was 96.47.266.22
 

68Rcodeman

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Just received a notice that an attempt was made atleast 5 times and has been blocked. This was the IP address. 193.138.216.101
 

AJB

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I received one about a month ago.... was unsuccessful.

BUT, LETS SAY THEY DO GUESS OUR PASSWORD...
---AND THEY DO GET INTO THE WEBSITE...
---UNDER ONE OF OUR USER NAMES....

WHAT HAPPENS THEN ??????

ANDY (AJB)
 

gitarzan

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Jul 28, 2014
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Clearwater, FL
Hi,
I got the same message regarding my account.

I'm not going to worry about it if it's just someone trying random passwords.

Chris
 

Apollo

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Me too last night, That IP was 96.47.266.22

I got the message today. Sooner or later they are going to get lucky.
 

FGT899

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Just got it too, Romania!

185.100.84.82
 

Xcentric

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I received one about a month ago.... was unsuccessful.

BUT, LETS SAY THEY DO GUESS OUR PASSWORD...
---AND THEY DO GET INTO THE WEBSITE...
---UNDER ONE OF OUR USER NAMES....

WHAT HAPPENS THEN ??????

ANDY (AJB)

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Howard

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Too bad you already own his User Name.

Howard
 

dbk

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Just FYI - this started happening to in February. Spammers are just automatically running down the lists of users on web communities and trying crude brute force attacks hoping to gain access to the user accounts in order to spam links to the users. In the extremely unlikely event your password is so weak that a common password generator gets it in less than 5 attempts, they would then attempt to spam links to other forum members. That would not work because of limitations on how many members can be sent a message at one time. Out of all the complaints from web forums I've seen about the nuisance, I have yet to see anyone complain about an actual successful attempt. The 5 attempt limitation exists specifically to combat stuff like this, because it's unlikely a human would sit there and repeatedly fail to login in a matter of seconds or minutes.

There are a whole bunch of countries banned at the server level in addition to hundreds and hundreds of specific IPs, but that's really pretty much pointless. Obviously the originations of the login attempts are not really jumping from country to country all over the globe by the second.

Just keep a strong password and don't worry about it. If your password is "password"...reset it.
 

fjpikul

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I've finally reset my password from "Edsims"
 

fjpikul

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I'm changing it to "StormDrain"
 

Ed Sims

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I knew it was you all the time Dr Frank!

Ed
 

AJB

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Just changed my password too.... just to be safe....
andy )ajb)
 

twobjshelbys

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Just changed my password too.... just to be safe....
andy )ajb)

Me too. itsnotasobviousasthelastone
 

twobjshelbys

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Well I was starting to feel left out but I finally got the email too.
 

mopar

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got one e mail too
 

texas mongrel

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Me too. Wonder if they're working through everyone?
 

roketman

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Me too
 

partssmann

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Me also