Account hacking??.......

[Stompy]

Just got this message from Arbtalk....

 

Dear Stompy,

 

Someone has tried to log into your account on Arbtalk.co.uk | Discussion Forum for Arborists 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: 183.207.224.51

 

Searched the IP and it's somewhere in China. What is that all about??

 

What could they achieve apart from posting nasty things in my name?

[Warners]

Thats not good.... Are in actually in Croatia?

[skyhuck]

Just got this message from Arbtalk....

 

Dear Stompy,

 

Someone has tried to log into your account on Arbtalk.co.uk | Discussion Forum for Arborists 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: 183.207.224.51

 

Searched the IP and it's somewhere in China. What is that all about??

 

What could they achieve apart from posting nasty things in my name?

 

They would post spam

[Treewolf]

I have recently had this warning as well.

 

Fortunately it seems that Arbtalk is smarter than the spambots!

[Stompy]

Thats not good.... Are in actually in Croatia?

 

Nope, not good....... And yep, been here 2 years, beats the pants off the UK :-)

[peatff]

If they get in they spam everybody with PMs like the one not long ago. According to the locator it is in China, Tianshui.

[mistahbenn]

Does it matter? The bots behind Arbtalk are doing their job, so dont fret.

[Steve Bullman]

Its nothing to worry about, just automated hacking attempts. they have been going on for about 6 weeks now and only cracked 2 accounts as far as i can make out. Just make sure your password is a secure one.

[Dan Curtis]

Its nothing to worry about, just automated hacking attempts. they have been going on for about 6 weeks now and only cracked 2 accounts as far as i can make out. Just make sure your password is a secure one.

 

Mines so secure I don't know what it is