I just got an email today from one of my other message boards, stating that there had been an attempt to access my account 5 times and that it had been locked out for 15 minutes. It also stated what IP address it came from.
I ran a whois on the IP address and it came up hosted at "LeonLundberg-net" - which apparently is near/in Russia.
Yeah. Someone was trying to hack my account, possibly because I hadn't used my account in 3 years.
So, of course, I changed my password. I mentioned it to my BF and he brought up something that I had never thought of.
Me: it makes me sad that they would try hacking <very small forum>
BF: data mining
Me: Huh?
BF: They hack a small forum because many people have the same password as on their other accounts.
so ... I don't know if that's why they were trying to get to my account or not. It's not even a username I use very often... I pretty much only used it for EQ, a couple of EQ-based fansites, and <very small forum>. So even if they hacked the old (or new) password they wouldn't get much out of it but still.... it bears thinking about.
I ran a whois on the IP address and it came up hosted at "LeonLundberg-net" - which apparently is near/in Russia.
Yeah. Someone was trying to hack my account, possibly because I hadn't used my account in 3 years.
So, of course, I changed my password. I mentioned it to my BF and he brought up something that I had never thought of.
Me: it makes me sad that they would try hacking <very small forum>
BF: data mining
Me: Huh?
BF: They hack a small forum because many people have the same password as on their other accounts.
so ... I don't know if that's why they were trying to get to my account or not. It's not even a username I use very often... I pretty much only used it for EQ, a couple of EQ-based fansites, and <very small forum>. So even if they hacked the old (or new) password they wouldn't get much out of it but still.... it bears thinking about.
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