Attempted hack on my account

[peacocksuit]

Got email this morning:

"Dear peacocksuit,

You have requested to reset your password on diyAudio because you have forgotten your password. If you did not request this, please ignore it. It will expire and become useless in 24 hours time."

 

[Mooly]

See this,
http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/forum-problems/272030-someone-hacking-trying-diyaudio-accounts.html

 

[Gopher]

Why on earth would anyone WANT to hack a diyaudio.com account? Seems a bit pointless. What is there to gain for them?

 

[Ashwell John]

Didn't face that problem yet. But careful for future. Thanks!

 

[tnc200]

Me too. Practice hacking maybe?

 

[stevenrotterdam]

I got this in the mail.


Dear stevenrotterdam,

Someone has tried to log into your account on diyAudio with an incorrect password at least 5 times. This person has been prevented from attempting to login to your account for the next 15 minutes.

The person trying to log into your account had the following IP address: 117.169.1.208

All the best,
diyAudio

 

[Mooly]

Most of those reporting this seem to be members with a low post count.

As long as you have a secure password there is little to worry about. I use over ten characters on all sites, and some sites as many as 40 characters.

 

[Ashwell John]

You're right I think.

 

[Jason]

Just spammers looking to make backlinks to their link spam networks.. The 5 attempt lock out is working as desired. Not much we can do about it, but agree it's annoying 🙂