I had like 40 attempts up till now. My password is completely random and generated by a password generator. Have fun with approximately 5000 years of trying to brute force it.

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I believe the perpetrator is amongst our ranks because as soon as I've posted this the attack had stopped.

hi, this morning I received 3 emails

1) Your account on vBulletin.org Forum Has Been locked Because someone has tried to log into the account with the wrong password blackberries than 5 times. You will be Able to attempt to log in again in another 15 minutes.

The person trying to log into your account had the following IP address: 91.103.127.37

2) our account on vBulletin.org Forum Has Been locked Because someone has tried to log into the account with the wrong password blackberries than 5 times. You will be Able to attempt to log in again in another 15 minutes.

The person trying to log into your account had the following IP address: 180.96.64.179

3) Your account on vBulletin.org Forum Has Been locked Because someone has tried to log into the account with the wrong password blackberries than 5 times. You will be Able to attempt to log in again in another 15 minutes.

The person trying to log into your account had the following IP address: 112.220.224.187.

I know these are not my ip, beware that they want to steal my data and sorry if I posted in this section.

I get 12 emails with similar text and different IP addresses!

regards

bosss

Maybe they got in on the 2nd try? :eek:

Mine got tried too...only two emails though. Maybe above poster is right. Got in after only two!

If they did, what would they do with your login? Spam advertisements? Check to see if posts have been made in your name. If you see posts you didn't make, you've been hacked. Either way, you might want to change your password. I just changed mine, just in case. New one is 12 random characters. :D

just checked my e-mail and i`ve got 32 e-mails of vbulletin.org saying this

Dear craigvm,

Your account on vBulletin.org Forum has been locked because someone has tried to log into the account with the wrong password more than 5 times. You will be able to attempt to log in again in another 15 minutes.

The person trying to log into your account had the following IP address: 194.141.252.102

Don't forget that the password is case sensitive. Forgotten your password? Use the link below:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/login.php?do=lostpw

All the best,
vBulletin.org Forum

any1 else had this today?

Yes, it's been happening to people since yesterday morning. It happens every once in a while.

(I'm merging this with the other thread where it's being discussed).

Except the member list isn't the only way they can get names. There are other ways, such as via threads.

Short of making the whole forum viewable only to registered users, there's nothing that can be done.

Same here. 145 login attempts by hacker so far TODAY.

Admin needs to limit login to my original registration ip or something.

Oh. I am not alone. Cool :)

I haven't logged on or used this forum in years. This is happening to me too. Is there any way to have my forum account deleted? Like physically removed from the database?

Sorry, but we do not delete accounts.

Guess I'll go create a dummy gmail address and change my email address to it, then delete the gmail account then.

Received 28 emails :rolleyes:

85.15.227.78
186.93.175.45
211.151.115.16
2.135.237.98
60.223.255.141
222.73.233.146
103.10.99.210
2.181.177.7
91.103.127.37
118.97.206.254
222.92.141.155
74.221.211.12
95.167.218.226
58.250.87.122
123.129.54.126
49.212.212.203
218.25.249.188
91.219.238.77
78.130.136.18
2.135.238.10
89.218.101.106
2.135.237.58
2.133.92.2
61.247.176.126
177.43.57.63
31.131.30.161
218.24.15.98

Mine to, I just got a bunch of emails from vbulletin.org and still going on. As I am typing this I got 3 more emails...

32 attempts here and possibly still counting.

You don't need to delete the dummy account, just set an invalid email address.

Hello,
I just received about 30 emails from the vbulletin.org webmaster that something is trying to log into my admin account and I'm locked out. The message says:

Dear diyautoftw,

Your account on vBulletin.org Forum has been locked because someone has tried to log into the account with the wrong password more than 5 times. You will be able to attempt to log in again in another 15 minutes.

The person trying to log into your account had the following IP address: 119.136.28.49

The IP address often changes.

Luckily I have a few other admin accounts but until this stops I won't be able to log in through the main account. Any way to fix this?
I also installed the Spamomatic mod so could that have something to do with it?

It's this site that's under "attack" so nothing that you've done on your site makes any difference. They are just going through the member list looking for accounts with weak passwords. It won't stop you from logging in to your account because the 15 minute block is per ip address. If you have a strong password, you don't have to be concerned.

I'm merging this thread in to an existing one where this is being discussed.

Please use only one thread for any discussion on this.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=280796