I am getting this in my email every day ??

Sander k

Sander k

New member
I am getting this in my email every day since last monday, is there something I can do about that? The ip keeps changing tho.

Dear xxxxx,

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: 190.198.148.249
 
GigaGreg

GigaGreg

Moderator
Staff member
That is very interesting, people are trying to get accounts for free, because they either want to sell hacked accounts or hack them to use for own reasons.
 
Genesis

Genesis

Administrator
Staff member
Just remember it is not a person as such, but someone using software to target accounts, so that IP could be misleading as well? I checked the IP out and it is a static IP from Venezuela. I can't believe a "hacker" will use his own IP to be tracked. So I'm convinced that those IPs may belong to genuine people who may find all of a sudden that their IP's have been blacklisted everywhere. Wonder how the hackers would do that however. Would be nice to find out. Think I should Google it.
 
Genesis

Genesis

Administrator
Staff member
Agreed. And how did a proxy like that make it through the vBulletin pearly gate? If it is so well-known on the Internet, surely vBulletin needs to beef up its security a notch or two?
 
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