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luvaz
07-06-2015, 07:49 PM
Just received this email from the forum:

"Dear luvaz,

Someone has tried to log into your account on Factory Five Forums 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: 176.126.252.11

All the best,
Factory Five Forums"

Anybody else been notified that their account is trying to be hacked? A google search of the IP address indicates it's in Bucharest, Romania- but it could be spoofed, too.

Thoughts?

Regards,
Will
Alig2
07-06-2015, 08:10 PM
I got the same thing this morning
Bob Cowan
07-07-2015, 09:16 AM
Me, too.
Mike N
07-07-2015, 09:40 AM
I had that happen about 2 weeks ago. Make sure you have a strong password. I had my yahoo account hacked about a year ago. I had used a 'common' word as the password and that was obviously easy for a computer program to figure out. It's good that the forum has a 5 try limit before freezing the login for a period of time.

By the way that IP address is in Romania.
David Hodgkins
07-07-2015, 10:48 AM
The problem is the number of different IPs, probably due to a slave-type attack. If you post the IP's I'll add them to the ban list.

:)
Alig2
07-07-2015, 12:56 PM
The problem is the number of different IPs, probably due to a slave-type attack. If you post the IP's I'll add them to the ban list.

:)
Mine was from 37.187.129.166
amtronic
07-25-2015, 08:34 AM
Got this this AM. Please add to the ban list.
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Dear amtronic,

Someone has tried to log into your account on Factory Five Forums 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: 91.219.236.218
DrPhantom
07-26-2015, 05:00 AM
Here's mine from July 11:

Dear DrPhantom,

Someone has tried to log into your account on Factory Five Forums 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: 50.7.159.196

All the best,
Factory Five Forums