Someone trying to Hack Accounts
 

I received an email today stating the following:

"Dear Nebthet,

Someone has tried to log into your account on Canreef Aquatics Bulletin Board 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: 183.223.23.41

All the best,
Canreef Aquatics Bulletin Board"

Admins, is there any way to look into this? Also other members should just be aware this is happening.

In the mean time I have changed my password.

I posted about this last week asking that people ensure their passwords were strong.
I've banned IPs, but there are quite a few on the Internet, can't ban them all :)

Thanks. I haven't actually been on the forums in over a year so when the message suddenly popped up in my email today it set of major alarms.

Whomever it is, is using a ChinaMobility IP address and I have forwarded a complaint to their company as well.

It's coming from different IP ranges in China, doubt we can make it stop. Just make sure your password is secure. I'll watch for regular users suddenly selling iphones :)

If we could get good prices on iPhones, I'd be down for a group buy!

Darn, was just starting to like you. Turns out you're one of them..hmm

Lol!

I also received this warning e-mail, I don't use the forums much but definitely do not want some on here using my account. Changing password as we speak.

I got the warning too (just about an hour ago). As usual, the IP address is from Beijing. Looks like people over there are on a role to take over canreef! Or maybe the forum owner got some enemies? :question:

I had multiple attempts of hacking of my computer at home last week thankfully have a multi-layered fire wall and 2 separate scanners operating on my system one checks viruses the other checks key loggers and worm programs it's not perfect as lots of software conflicts but it works unfortunately neither works on tablets or smart phones yet

Www.eset.com (virus scanner and firewall)

Www.pandasecurity.com (key logger and worm programs and firewall)

So what if we stay logged on? Can they still get in to our account?

Unfortunately yes depending on what you run for an operating system, fire wall and virus programs the hackers may be able to key log your account so as soon as it shows inactivity they can go in and start playing around.

Your biggest defence which unfortunately a lot of people don't do is to not keep any personal information on your computer (addresses, contact info, bank accounts, names of family members and friends, even something as innocent as photos can yield information)

Next best option are good quality firewall and antivirus programs of which Macafee and Norton are not included as both are not secure or safe anti virus programs to run. Eset, Panda, Webroot and Bitdefender are all good programs to run

Sorry I should have directed that question to a mod. Brad?

And thanks Dean I have a firewall and Antivirus so I know we're vulnerable without it. The question was just concerning this site.

Technically, yes. You can have multiple sessions. The likelihood of someone guessing a password is slim to none, unless you set it to "password".

Make sure it's 8 characters or more, and contain at least 3 character types (upper/lower case, special chars, numbers). Nobody will guess.

And the chances that anyone has a keylogger on your PC to gain access to Canreef to post iphone ads, is, well, pretty much non-existent :)

Dean is paranoid, don't get freaked out :razz:

Yea I is paranoid stems from being hacked years ago cost me some bucks and privacy but I still rank myself way above the conspiracy theorists for paranoia ....always a positive way to look at it 👽

My password for Canreef is so good even I don't know it anymore!

Wow I'm special 3 hacking attempts in the past 2 hrs trying to get on Canreef account