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...I got this email this morning.
8:03 AM (10 hours ago)
It certainly wasn't me, and I was still warm under the covers at 8:03 on a Saturday morning. Do I need to worry about it ? TIA
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to me8:03 AM (10 hours ago)
Dear 3alarmer,
Someone has tried to log into your account on Bike Forums 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: 2607:fb90:276a:303f:5927:f2ec:4e6c:616d
All the best,
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Someone has tried to log into your account on Bike Forums 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: 2607:fb90:276a:303f:5927:f2ec:4e6c:616d
All the best,
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11-01-21, 07:24 AM
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My theory is that if they failed to get in, my password is working.
You can't change the account name, so there's literally no way to stop someone from making the attempt.
Also, do not respond to that email notice or click on any links--sometimes scammers spoof notices like that to phish and it's easy to miss that you're actually communicating with a 3rd party.
11-01-21, 02:27 PM
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You might see what your phone and pc's IPv6 shows up as to others. There are some IP tool sites and sites that check how secure your firewalls and such are that can give you that info. A quick look up on that IP shows it as being in Sacramento CA.
Do you leave your phone on at night? Maybe it was doing strange things after some update it might have installed at that time.
Otherwise, I'd check the email headers and embedded links in the message to see if they look like legitimate BF links. Might be legit, or might be phishing as livedarklions warned of.
Do you leave your phone on at night? Maybe it was doing strange things after some update it might have installed at that time.
Otherwise, I'd check the email headers and embedded links in the message to see if they look like legitimate BF links. Might be legit, or might be phishing as livedarklions warned of.
11-02-21, 09:40 AM
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You might see what your phone and pc's IPv6 shows up as to others. There are some IP tool sites and sites that check how secure your firewalls and such are that can give you that info. A quick look up on that IP shows it as being in Sacramento CA.
Do you leave your phone on at night? Maybe it was doing strange things after some update it might have installed at that time.
Otherwise, I'd check the email headers and embedded links in the message to see if they look like legitimate BF links. Might be legit, or might be phishing as livedarklions warned of.
Do you leave your phone on at night? Maybe it was doing strange things after some update it might have installed at that time.
Otherwise, I'd check the email headers and embedded links in the message to see if they look like legitimate BF links. Might be legit, or might be phishing as livedarklions warned of.
11-04-21, 12:38 PM
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I'm pretty primitive too (as I'm fond of virtue signalling, I use my work-provided smartphone as little as possible). I only ever surf BF in a desktop browser.
I would recommend you get a free account from Bitwarden (or any other password manager, but Bitwarden is what I chose, and I am very happy with it), and get familiar with how to use it by changing (almost) all your passwords to random strings of 20+ characters that the password manager can remember for you. Install the browser extension, so it can autofill (most) username/password boxes when you go to a site to log in (the ones it can't do are only a few clicks to copy/paste).
I say "(almost) all your passwords", you want one good strong rememberable but typable password for unlocking your password manager, and another one for whatever email account you would need to get into to change all those passwords, in the event you somehow get locked out of the password manager.
I did this finally like 9-12mo ago, and I regret not doing it years ago. It is so freeing to have secure, unique passwords that you don't have to remember.
Another tip: you can share your password manager password with your wife and both use the same free account. Bitwarden doesn't know or care. And then you will both have easier, safer access to all your online banking etc. And if one of you dies, the survivor won't lose access. I'm sure there are customer service channels to deal with this sort of thing, but it probably involves registered-mailing notarized death certificates or the like.
And then back to the OP, it's a 1min exercise to change your BF password to a new 30-character random string, or you can just trust that no rando would ever be able to get in just by guessing (or using a variant of a password they might have cracked from some other website you use https://xkcd.com/792/)
I would recommend you get a free account from Bitwarden (or any other password manager, but Bitwarden is what I chose, and I am very happy with it), and get familiar with how to use it by changing (almost) all your passwords to random strings of 20+ characters that the password manager can remember for you. Install the browser extension, so it can autofill (most) username/password boxes when you go to a site to log in (the ones it can't do are only a few clicks to copy/paste).
I say "(almost) all your passwords", you want one good strong rememberable but typable password for unlocking your password manager, and another one for whatever email account you would need to get into to change all those passwords, in the event you somehow get locked out of the password manager.
I did this finally like 9-12mo ago, and I regret not doing it years ago. It is so freeing to have secure, unique passwords that you don't have to remember.
Another tip: you can share your password manager password with your wife and both use the same free account. Bitwarden doesn't know or care. And then you will both have easier, safer access to all your online banking etc. And if one of you dies, the survivor won't lose access. I'm sure there are customer service channels to deal with this sort of thing, but it probably involves registered-mailing notarized death certificates or the like.
And then back to the OP, it's a 1min exercise to change your BF password to a new 30-character random string, or you can just trust that no rando would ever be able to get in just by guessing (or using a variant of a password they might have cracked from some other website you use https://xkcd.com/792/)
11-06-21, 12:57 AM
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I'm pretty primitive too (as I'm fond of virtue signalling, I use my work-provided smartphone as little as possible). I only ever surf BF in a desktop browser.
I would recommend you get a free account from Bitwarden (or any other password manager, but Bitwarden is what I chose, and I am very happy with it), and get familiar with how to use it by changing (almost) all your passwords to random strings of 20+ characters that the password manager can remember for you. Install the browser extension, so it can autofill (most) username/password boxes when you go to a site to log in (the ones it can't do are only a few clicks to copy/paste).
I say "(almost) all your passwords", you want one good strong rememberable but typable password for unlocking your password manager, and another one for whatever email account you would need to get into to change all those passwords, in the event you somehow get locked out of the password manager.
I did this finally like 9-12mo ago, and I regret not doing it years ago. It is so freeing to have secure, unique passwords that you don't have to remember.
Another tip: you can share your password manager password with your wife and both use the same free account. Bitwarden doesn't know or care. And then you will both have easier, safer access to all your online banking etc. And if one of you dies, the survivor won't lose access. I'm sure there are customer service channels to deal with this sort of thing, but it probably involves registered-mailing notarized death certificates or the like.
And then back to the OP, it's a 1min exercise to change your BF password to a new 30-character random string, or you can just trust that no rando would ever be able to get in just by guessing (or using a variant of a password they might have cracked from some other website you use https://xkcd.com/792/)
I would recommend you get a free account from Bitwarden (or any other password manager, but Bitwarden is what I chose, and I am very happy with it), and get familiar with how to use it by changing (almost) all your passwords to random strings of 20+ characters that the password manager can remember for you. Install the browser extension, so it can autofill (most) username/password boxes when you go to a site to log in (the ones it can't do are only a few clicks to copy/paste).
I say "(almost) all your passwords", you want one good strong rememberable but typable password for unlocking your password manager, and another one for whatever email account you would need to get into to change all those passwords, in the event you somehow get locked out of the password manager.
I did this finally like 9-12mo ago, and I regret not doing it years ago. It is so freeing to have secure, unique passwords that you don't have to remember.
Another tip: you can share your password manager password with your wife and both use the same free account. Bitwarden doesn't know or care. And then you will both have easier, safer access to all your online banking etc. And if one of you dies, the survivor won't lose access. I'm sure there are customer service channels to deal with this sort of thing, but it probably involves registered-mailing notarized death certificates or the like.
And then back to the OP, it's a 1min exercise to change your BF password to a new 30-character random string, or you can just trust that no rando would ever be able to get in just by guessing (or using a variant of a password they might have cracked from some other website you use https://xkcd.com/792/)
Anyway, if anyone steals my Bike Forums ID, and starts writing caustic commentary, directed at you in teh P+R, you'll know right away it's not me. So I'm not worried.
11-06-21, 08:48 AM
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...thank you, but I think I already have a password manager courtesy of the Chrome browser I use almost exclusively. It even notifies me off "compromised" passwords. Then it nags me to change them. It usually turns out to be a password to some site I had forgotten I ever used, and which I haven't visited for years. Then I agonize over how to delete that account, which in many cases turns out to be impossible.
Anyway, if anyone steals my Bike Forums ID, and starts writing caustic commentary, directed at you in teh P+R, you'll know right away it's not me. So I'm not worried.
11-06-21, 11:55 AM
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11-06-21, 01:21 PM
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I know a guy that has a very bad reputation on social media. He tried to launch his own social media website and it got hacked before it even got out of beta
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