Everyone,

It has come to our attention that the forum is being targeted for a password brute force attempt.

You can read more about it here:

http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=1947925

From researching, it's not limited just to phpBB forums - but other types as well.

The steps we are currently taking to resolve this are:

1. Dropping number of login attempts down to 1. I know this is a little annoying, but until this blows over, it's better to err on the side of caution.

2. Reviewing website logs in an effort to identify any particular IPs that seem to have a large number of login attempts. Once we've identified likely IPs - we'll be banning them. If we happened to banned a legit user - please email us letting us know.

Now - I'd like to stress that all users should ensure they have strong passwords. It probably wouldn't hurt to go in and do a password change. If you do - try to have mix case and numbers to strengthen.

Kind Regards,
Naomi~

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Thanks for the heads up.

It's always good to check and keep your computer save.

I just hate these kinda thing. Last year a hacker hackt into my boyfriends Wow account. The problem was his email account, which he checked on a computer of a friend that was infected, and so they got into his account stuff.

To be safe I changed my password and then logged out. When I tried to log back in I got the over limit error on my first try. After that the window to put in the code comes up but not until you get the error first.

I'm not sure this was the intended way for it to work. Just fyi for anyone who does change their password

I think it's not because you changed the password, ohnaka.
I¡ts happening to me too, but I haven't changed my password (because I was absent from the forums and didn't know about this).

Just a heads up, mods. I received an email notification of a private message just now from immortalge​ishamembers​hip@gmail.c​om. It looked like the typical email I get from IG, and contained my username and a link. When I clicked the link, I was taken to a login page. It looks like the IG login page except that it has a little phbb logo at the top left, but things change so I didn't think anything of it. The page is located at http://puchimaiko.com/ig_bb/ucp.php?i=pm&folder=inbox. I logged in with my username and password, but after the "login successful message, I was sent to an error page at http://puchimaiko.com/ig_bb/ucp.php?i=p ... 3fc48bed65

I immediately logged into both the proper site and the wiki and changed my password, but clearly you need to know someone's phishing for passwords.

Thanks for letting us know James!! I hope I don't get that message.

*edit* I just got 2 of them... Won't be opening both of them since I don't have a new message on here...

Thanks for the head's up, James. I haven't seen Naomi online yet today - I hope she's feeling okay - but I'll definitely pass it on to her.

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I, too, have just received two of these. They have the subject line 'New private message has arrived'.

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I got four! I'm the best!

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Yup equal as the real deal, I checked here to be sure I got no message

Ahh! I'm so sorry for worrying everyone!

I'm in the middle of testing some new mods for the forum, and needed to test it with the existing forum data, but obviously not on the live site - so I replicated the forum on my other server - using puchimaiko.com. I wasn't aware it was sending out emails, and for that, I do apologize.

I will actually be going through and removing the test forum later today or tomorrow.

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I got six of them! I win!

We've got a winner xD hehe

Thats ok Naomi-san, glad there is no real spammer behind this all