SECURITY ALERT!! -- Please Read!!

I can tell anyone right now that if your password is something basic like ninja1234, your account is toast. And you know who you are. Think long and hard about your passwords; get creative and make them more individual, very variable, and ultimately secure. Alternatively, if you're not good at coming up with passwords, then smash your hands on the keyboard for a minute, write down your result, and use that as your password until you eventually remember it, if ever.

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Originally Posted by pythonminion

I can tell anyone right now that if your password is something basic like ninja1234, your account is toast.

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I would say this is completely true. The people trying to get there passwords aren't the people attacking banks or even entire countries. They don't have the capabilities to pull that many passwords as easily as that. My password is only 10 characters long, been perfectly safe. I am pretty certain that is from people using the exact same passwords for other things. Such as Hotmail accounts, seeing as they get hijacked very very often.

Unfortunately, having an impenetrable password, that is unique for every website, isn't going to happen. Too complex. Banking you need to be secure, this, not so much.

But, then again, it isn't hard to make a good password people.

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Originally Posted by Popeye

I just received this email today:

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Dear Popeye,

Someone has tried to log into your account on Ball-Pythons.net Forums 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: 117.169.1.158

All the best,
Ball-Pythons.net Forums.

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Maybe time to change my password?

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I got a similar email a couple weeks ago.

What does anyone gain from login into accounts on this website? Are they going to change someone's 1.2 normals to 30.2 purple passions?


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Originally Posted by Citrus

What does anyone gain from login into accounts on this website? Are they going to change someone's 1.2 normals to 30.2 purple passions?


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Sending spam emails to other users hoping to install viruses, install malware, phish for other information.

Someone tried logging into my account at 5:47 this morning... Got locked out, but still, that's kinda creepy.

Do you guys think they are more likely to target the members who do not post too often?


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I got a notification in my inbox today trying to sell me stuff. It seemed like a spambot.

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Originally Posted by Daniel.michelle

I got a notification in my inbox today trying to sell me stuff. It seemed like a spambot.

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Yep that one was taking care off even the staff received that PM.

Whenever you receive a spammy PM please report it so we are aware of it and can suspend the account while investigating.

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Originally Posted by Citrus

Do you guys think they are more likely to target the members who do not post too often?


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I doubt they are targeted attacks. Nothing to gain from here. Probably just using hacked emails and similar or very weak passwords. Could post 1000 times a day, if your password is weak it can be broken.