[Lynne]

Yesterday afternoon, it seems there was somebody (or a group of somebodies) who decided to try to brute force their way to hacking vbulletin.org user accounts. Several of you got emails about being locked out of your accounts after the five attempts were made. Unfortunately, there is no one IP, or even an IP range, that we can block to stop this as the IPs came from all over.

I would strongly suggest that users change their passwords. You should pick a password that is at least fourteen characters long and utilize both lower and upper case letters as well as numbers and other keyboard characters

There is a password generator here that you may use to create a random, strong, password - http://strongpasswordgenerator.com/