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Hacking Passwords

Postby John Boucher » Wed Sep 04, 2013 8:44 am

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

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Re: Hacking Passwords

Postby Lieb Liebenberg » Wed Sep 04, 2013 10:03 am

Someone was busy with mine as well ! :evil: ##
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Re: Hacking Passwords

Postby Thatchman » Wed Sep 04, 2013 10:13 am

How do you know this? When I logged in now it said that I have exeeded the number of attempts!! Is this how?
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Re: Hacking Passwords

Postby Tailspin » Wed Sep 04, 2013 10:40 am

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.

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Re: Hacking Passwords

Postby John Boucher » Wed Sep 04, 2013 11:17 am

Pleased to see Gav is on top of it and not in a "spin" ;-)
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Re: Hacking Passwords

Postby jacbot » Wed Sep 04, 2013 1:44 pm

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.
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Re: Hacking Passwords

Postby MICROHEADSON » Wed Sep 04, 2013 1:53 pm

I seemed to have exceeded my attempts to log in without even trying :lol: .. what someone thinks they will get by hacking my password is beyond me ##
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Re: Hacking Passwords

Postby ICEMAN » Wed Sep 04, 2013 2:58 pm

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 s024 vhpy
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Postby nicow » Wed Sep 04, 2013 3:02 pm

MICROHEADSON wrote:I seemed to have exceeded my attempts to log in without even trying :lol: .. 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... :lol:
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Re: Hacking Passwords

Postby nicow » Wed Sep 04, 2013 3:06 pm

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.

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Re: Hacking Passwords

Postby bobthebuilder » Wed Sep 04, 2013 3:17 pm

Okay! ..... so thats what happened. My account also exceeded the maximum number of logon attempts.
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Re: Hacking Passwords

Postby John Boucher » Wed Sep 04, 2013 3:19 pm

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
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Re: Hacking Passwords

Postby nicow » Wed Sep 04, 2013 3:33 pm

John Boucher wrote: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
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Re: Hacking Passwords

Postby Tribal Croc » Wed Sep 04, 2013 3:34 pm

Same with me (**) (**)

1st time on Ipad this morning and now same thing on Pc :twisted: :twisted:
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Re: Hacking Passwords

Postby ZULU1 » Wed Sep 04, 2013 5:02 pm

It has taken me at least 1/2 hour to log in...so dont expect much from this corner for a while...hard work.
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