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Hacking Passwords
Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2013 8:44 am
by John Boucher
It seems someone has got a lot of time on his hands...
There have been serious attempts to hack Bundy and my password on microlighters.co.za
If anyone sees out of the ordinary posts made in our names, kindly pop us an e-mail if you don't mind!
Also, it may be a good idea to revisit your passwords and update them with a more secure $tring
Regards
JB
Re: Hacking Passwords
Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2013 10:03 am
by Lieb Liebenberg
Someone was busy with mine as well !

Re: Hacking Passwords
Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2013 10:13 am
by Thatchman
How do you know this? When I logged in now it said that I have exeeded the number of attempts!! Is this how?
Re: Hacking Passwords
Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2013 10:40 am
by Tailspin
It looks like all the Passwords were attempted to be Hacked.
Please make sure your password is not too easy and yes pop any of the Admins a mail if you have a problem.
Tailspin
G v d b e r g (at) u n i s a . a c . z a
Re: Hacking Passwords
Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2013 11:17 am
by John Boucher
Pleased to see Gav is on top of it and not in a "spin"

Re: Hacking Passwords
Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2013 1:44 pm
by jacbot
Thatchman wrote:How do you know this? When I logged in now it said that I have exeeded the number of attempts!! Is this how?
Same happened to me last night.
Re: Hacking Passwords
Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2013 1:53 pm
by MICROHEADSON
I seemed to have exceeded my attempts to log in without even trying

.. what someone thinks they will get by hacking my password is beyond me

Re: Hacking Passwords
Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2013 2:58 pm
by ICEMAN
I also had the "exceeded attempts" last night when i logged in........... i must say that the verifciation squiggle of letters i had to read and type in had me making faces like the village idiot in an attempt to read the codes

Re: Hacking Passwords
Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2013 3:02 pm
by nicow
MICROHEADSON wrote:I seemed to have exceeded my attempts to log in without even trying

.. what someone thinks they will get by hacking my password is beyond me

I'll give them my banking detail,maybe they'll feel sorry for me and deposit money in...

Re: Hacking Passwords
Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2013 3:06 pm
by nicow
Tailspin wrote:It looks like all the Passwords were attempted to be Hacked.
Please make sure your password is not too easy and yes pop any of the Admins a mail if you have a problem.
Tailspin
G v d b e r g (at) u n i s a . a c . z a
Tailspin,I see you've join the forum a day before I did in 2005

Re: Hacking Passwords
Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2013 3:17 pm
by bobthebuilder
Okay! ..... so thats what happened. My account also exceeded the maximum number of logon attempts.
What would one gain by accessing a forum account?
Re: Hacking Passwords
Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2013 3:19 pm
by John Boucher
Here is a link for banking details them if they so really wish to hack anything.... would give a lot of us great pleasure if the account was sucked dry
http://www.anc.org.za/docs/misc/2010/form.pdf
Re: Hacking Passwords
Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2013 3:33 pm
by nicow
Re: Hacking Passwords
Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2013 3:34 pm
by Tribal Croc
Re: Hacking Passwords
Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2013 5:02 pm
by ZULU1
It has taken me at least 1/2 hour to log in...so dont expect much from this corner for a while...hard work.