Someone is trying to hack my account

[Blueracer66]

I have been getting these emails all day today.

[BlueRad]

250 attempts on mine in the past hour.

[belindaj]

And I am getting hit a second round now.

[Brandon Sheley]

B B B B

190.124.165.194
125.210.131.49
118.123.242.112
118.195.65.250
202.59.128.254
186.116.130.90
61.247.176.126
125.39.66.132
218.29.54.105
187.20.38.139

(a list of ip's/proxies to ban)

[Bluetiereign]

Add me to this list. 51 emails. trying to figure out what access to my account would give anybody

[AuroraStorm]

Aw man, I only had about 15...my log in wasn't so important...

*insert sad face here*

[Biggles64]

Yes, me too. Have now had more than 60 emails advising me that I am locked out of registration due five incorrect attempts to login and to try again after 15 minutes. Let me see now ... that's 60 x 5 = 300+ login attempts - maybe I should feel honoured.

Persistent little morons, aren't they? Just to be on the safe side, I've changed my password and made it longer and more complex.

Hope that does the trick and stops 'em getting in to use my fictitious username, though I too wonder what advantage that will actually give this annoying hacker. Seems to me he/she/they will only be able to post or possibly download mods using my name. Is there a threat beyond that which I am not seeing?

Incidentally, on my own website, I place blocks on guests and REGISTERED MEMBERS with regard to seeing the member list. I don't see a valid reason or a need for them to look at who is a member until they have joined us and posted enough times for me to know whether or not they are real persons who are genuinely interested in the site. And I allow nobody but Admins to see who's online.

[butch3r]

More than 50 attempts on my accont

[BaronD]

I only got 11 so far..
It would be fun if we could get a list of the top passwords they try..

[bzcomputers]

As mentioned somewhere prior, make sure on your own forums that guests cannot view the members list.

As you can see all the posts above are from registered usernames that begin with an "A" or a "B". I bet we all wouldn't be having this issue if vBulletin.org also hid the members list from guests!