Someone is trying to hack my account

[Chiaki]

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.

[carmine3838]

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.

[boss22]

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

regards

bosss

[CableSux]

Originally Posted by apsrfvb4

I kind of feel unworthy since they only used 1 IP to try to crack my password

Maybe they got in on the 2nd try?

[betterthanyours]

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

[CableSux]

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.

[craigvm]

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?

[kh99]

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).

[Amaury]

Originally Posted by Black Tiger

I second that. Especially if that's the way they get the names.
At this moment the are busy with BL from the alphabet, because I could dozens of mails since yesterday evening.

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.

[dej]

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

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