[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by whitetigergrowl

No biggie until they eventually hack into your account and get your password. Anyone that says this is no biggie is seriously underestimating what is going on and potentially willing to compromise their account and information here and elsewhere.

200.112.211.80
117.164.142.150

I had 2 attempts on my account at the same time today. (8:09am)

Do not underestimate or downplay this. One IP is from Columbia and another from China in my case.

If you have a secure password it would take hundreds of thousands or millions or more chances to brute force break your password. Even someone who got 50 emails only had 250 max unique passwords checked on their account. The chances of them getting it right are almost zero. If your password is even puppy1036 they are never going to get it with this attack.

They are looking for the extremely week passwords- such as-
password
123456
abcde
[your username]

etc...

Originally Posted by JetLee

What got me worrying is that someone also called my cell phone carrier trying to ascertain my home address. WTF? I've since put extra security measures in place with all utilities and banks as well as changing all forum passwords to something even more complicated than I was already using.

I can assure you they are not related. This happens every few months around here- they are only looking for valid, licensed, accounts.