just had an email saying somone tried to login to my EC account more than 5 times, bit worried, is anyone else having issues?
It might be a family member or a friend? Don't worry, I'm sure you'll be fine. For peace of mind though, I would change the password.
There's apparently a bot that seems to be originating from China trying to break into people's accounts. We've blocked a range of IP addresses, but they continue to pop up now and then. It isn't much to worry about, it's likely just trying to spam the site. I'd say if you reset your password, you'll be fine.
This might help. You both have the same problem. You can create a thread in Ask the Staffs forum so the staffs can do something about it
Same thing happened to me a few days ago. Thanks for the info/update, Chip. I'm not entirely sure whether changing your password should help or should be advisable (aside from the fact that it's not a bad idea to change all passwords regularly). If it was strong enough to survive this attack, and they only were able to rule out 5 things, I suspect it'll hold through several such attacks. Let us know if it happens again...it hasn't been repeated with my account.
We have our ways Your best bet is to report it as soon as you know about it either to the Ask-the-staff forum or if you've lost access to you account, the admin email.
Is there anything China doesn't try to hack nowadays? If they're so keen to see what goes on at EC, then why not just join? At the moment, whenever I try to post something, I keep getting told I'm not logged in. After half a dozen tries it finally goes through.
Yeah. Tried to be breached a couple months ago. Got an email about it. Looked up the IP and saw it was China.