Someone is trying to hack my account

[ArtakEVN]

Oh. I am not alone. Cool

[divisortheory]

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?

[Lynne]

Sorry, but we do not delete accounts.

[divisortheory]

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

[digicom]

Received 28 emails

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

[Dilldogs]

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...

[DocZaius]

32 attempts here and possibly still counting.

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by divisortheory

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

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

[diyautoftw]

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?

[kh99]

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.