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2015-07-22 13:14:04
#21
Yes, I've received this email as well.

Dear wildmane,

Someone has tried to log into your account on SR20 Community Forum - The Dash with an incorrect password at least 5 times. This person has been prevented from attempting to login to your account for the next 15 minutes.

The person trying to log into your account had the following IP address: 78.41.115.145

All the best,
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2015-07-22 22:50:38
#22
Happened to me as well.

IP addy: 94.242.246.24
2015-07-22 23:07:19
#23
@jj205mi, I've merged your thread into this one.
2015-07-22 23:16:06
#24
Originally Posted by BenFenner
There may not be much to do with that information, other than know that the forum software is protecting you decently well.

I will look into IP restrictions on accounts, but I wouldn't get your hopes up.

Cliché, I know, but make sure your password is strong. I like to use full sentences. They are extremely strong, yet easy to remember and type. They are very long, they automatically include capital letters and two different types of special characters (spaces and punctuation) and can easily include digits. They can also easily be tailored to each site so you have a unique password for each site.

Examples:
"Facebook plays grab-ass with 12 monkeys."
"I like to play grab-ass with Pinterest after 10."



Every website requiring a password login should have, prominently displayed, a change password button. At least on the home page and IMHO, on every page or at least next to every login button.

This site, Google and many others make it way too hard to change your password. As the prompt is never seen, the topic is rarely thought about.
2015-08-06 01:54:40
#25
Someone just failed to login to my account 5 times from 173.254.216.68


I dont live in LA.
2015-08-06 01:59:00
#26
Might be a good idea to make a list of these IP's and occasionally run a script to check that no one is logged in from them... b/c it might not be the actual user.
2015-08-06 02:01:24
#27
Changing the number of allowed attempts from 5 to 3 might slow down the bot/malicious person also
2015-08-07 10:44:02
#28
I just got one too. Traced it to a TOR node. 149.202.98.160
2015-08-22 04:25:44
#29
Who's trying to hack my sh!t?
I've gotten 2 emails in the past 4 hours saying someone failed 5x each email...

I've posted what, 30x lol... want my account... JUST ASK!!
2015-08-22 05:49:01
#30
A lot of us have gotten these messages, my guess is that it's spambots trying to brute force our logins so they can spam ads. Makes sense if you think about it, cause established users are going to be trusted and not deleted for some random product link.
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