Hacking Attempt on account

[xavierre]

late yesterday nite, i got problems logging in to my account, that it is said tt i already entered my pass for more than 5 times..i was terribly confused that i never even tried to log in before that time..later i gt an email from cs webmaster as uploaded below..

i have been wandering then..could webmaster ban the relating ip ? or will there be any other moves to be done as solutions after this ?

thanks for viewing

PS : for someone doing this, i do not know what do you want , what are ur probs, or who are you, but pls kindly stop doing such cowardly immature things like this..grow up bud..

thx and God bless

 

[Robert]

I got the same problem - is there a mod in the house?

 

[9V-Orion Images]

i have been wandering then..could webmaster ban the relating ip ?

Consumer IP addresses issued by the ISP in Singapore are dynamic, banning the IP address above is as good as banning a few thousand other users.

 

[Clown]

we cant do anything regarding this. you'll need to find higher level deities - the admins.

 

[Clown]

anyway when these things happen, please change your password to something more secure and check your back to see if you've offended anyone who's crazy enough to do this kinda crap.

 

[nuthead]

anyway when these things happen, please change your password to something more secure and check your back to see if you've offended anyone who's crazy enough to do this kinda crap.

Changing a more secure password might not necessary helped if the attacker is just targetting the ID to cause inconvience, and achieve extra bonuses if he can get in with the right password.

Probably someone though that he has that ID in this forum which he/she uses in the others.

One thing to suggest is to avoid using the nick as the logon ID. This will helped provide extra layer of security.

 

[timefreeze]

Have the same prob last nite ... Reset password , still cannot login.

But it works fine today ....

 

[izerkudie]

hmm maybe admin and mods can consider inputting sub password? example: sub password failed, blocked the ip for a moment, den send notice emails to admin and user? sound high tech like internet banking.. just my 20cent

 

[RyanG]

hmm maybe admin and mods can consider inputting sub password? example: sub password failed, blocked the ip for a moment, den send notice emails to admin and user? sound high tech like internet banking.. just my 20cent

It's high-tech but high cost.

This 2-pass or OTP process is secured but comes at a price.

 

[calvinklein]

haha. to summon the "deities", how? prepare a table of roast duck, chicken and lots of incense stick and paper? hahaha

 

[Edmund]

What you guys have been experiencing sounds similar to what we have seen recently and is most likely the result of database problems.. As such, I have been trying to perform urgent database repairs most of this afternoon before it gets worse and am planning some scheduled maintenance soon in order for us to perform some tweaking to see if we can stop recurrences.

Hopefully this repair fixes the login problems some of you have been experiencing.

 

[geekbrains]

Hi Edmund, I faced the same issue today.. CS didn't allow me to login as it said that I've reached my maximum login attempts already. I could login after waiting for 30 mins now. Is the DB error fixed?