Has anyone else here recently had their account temporarily frozen by someone, not themselves, submitting incorrect password guesses?
Has anyone else here recently had their account temporarily frozen by someone, not themselves, submitting incorrect password guesses?
Originally Posted by email to meWhich is interesting because Luhansk is one of the territories held by pro-Russian forces. Anyone else had this problem? If so, the site managers should probably flag it up.Originally Posted by search on iplocation.net
Invictus_88,
This issue was flagged up a few months ago and widely read. Please view this thread:http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...ad.php?t=21736
I know via PM(s) that this problem continues, although minus knowledge of where the IP address is shown as located.
davidbfpo
I did have a quick look around but didn't find the thread you refer to and so I posted my own here. Thank you for linking me in though.
Interesting that they're from all over rather than just Luhansk.
On 11 July 2015 I too received the following message purporting to be from the Small Wars Council:
Dear Tasmanian Devil,
Someone has tried to log into your account on Small Wars Council 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: 178.175.131.194
All the best,
Small Wars Council
A check with iplocation.net idicates the ip address given is allegedly Trabia-network Data Center, Chisnau, Moldova Republic.
Regards.
Tasmanian Devil.
I received a notice as well, and my IP (94.23.6.131) was located to OVH in France, which is a popular hosting company to use for nefarious actions. They do very little to verify identity.
Also, they're from all over because that's how a distributed cyber attack works.
Another member reports activity with an IP address that is ostensibly in Sweden, but has several anti-spam website alerts: 178.16.208.56
davidbfpo
For those interested in the possible conext for such attempts please view the main Ukraine military thread, where Outlaw 09 has posted three posts on the issues:http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...=22315&page=54
I have accordingly deleted the three posts here.
davidbfpo
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