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02-18-2015, 08:34 AM
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Moderator
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Alberta, Canada
Posts: 1,016
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Illegal Logins / Failed Login Notification notification
We have been receiving a lot of attention coming from China lately. It seems that spam bots have been trying to use brute force to try to crack our members passwords. If you have received a "Failed Login Notification" e-mail, then they have tried to hack your account. Please do not worry, the software is responding the way it should. If your password is a good password you have nothing to worry about- the vBulletin software and the 15 minute lockout prevents "brute force" attacks from being successful.
They are probably trying the 5 most common password such as:
1) your username
2) password
3) 1234
4) 12345
5) 123456
If your password is any of the above (or close to it) you should change it to a real password ASAP. Also if you receive any PM's that seem out of the ordinary, please do not open any links and report the PM so we can look into the problem. Thanks.
Last edited by Fluffy; 03-11-2015 at 07:44 PM.
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03-17-2015, 01:04 AM
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Adult Hamster
Join Date: Nov 2014
Location: Essex, England
Posts: 271
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Re: Illegal Logins / Failed Login Notification notification
I had an E-mail and checked the location of the IP address trying to get in to my account, it was indeed from China. How strange, what is the point? Why would anyone want to hack in to our little hamster family? Some people are so sad!
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03-17-2015, 01:39 AM
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#3
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Hamster Addict
Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: Norfolk, UK
Posts: 857
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Re: Illegal Logins / Failed Login Notification notification
I got one too a couple of days ago. Sad little bots
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03-18-2015, 07:56 PM
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Hamster Warrior
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Posts: 15,575
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Re: Illegal Logins / Failed Login Notification notification
I got one too less than 2 hours ago!
IP No 183.207.228.22
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03-22-2015, 09:04 AM
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Hamster Warrior
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Posts: 15,575
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Re: Illegal Logins / Failed Login Notification notification
Sully posted on another post about clicking on it but, I can't as I deleted it but did post the IP No in the above post.
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03-24-2015, 12:08 PM
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Adult Hamster
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: England
Posts: 368
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Re: Illegal Logins / Failed Login Notification notification
I got one just recently - I got one from twitch, too!
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03-24-2015, 09:12 PM
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Hamster Warrior
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Posts: 15,575
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Re: Illegal Logins / Failed Login Notification notification
They seem hell bent in trying! Very sad!
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03-25-2015, 09:15 PM
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Hamster Pup
Join Date: May 2014
Location: Kamloops, BC, Canada
Posts: 84
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Re: Illegal Logins / Failed Login Notification notification
I just got one today...ip 117.169.1.216
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03-27-2015, 02:42 PM
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Hamster Overlord
Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Romsey, UK
Posts: 715
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Re: Illegal Logins / Failed Login Notification notification
My turn today
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05-09-2015, 02:07 PM
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Adult Hamster
Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: Ireland
Posts: 348
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Re: Illegal Logins / Failed Login Notification notification
Something happened to me too today. Couldn't log in. Then sent e-mail to administrators. Then got warning in my e-mail that I got hacked into my e-mail account...Weird! :/
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