Account Hacking Attempt - Offender: 173.180.208.184

aquamarine

aquamarine

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Seems that someone in Canada, actually to be more specific, someone from British Columbia in Canada REALLY wants to play with my account. This is the second time that I have received an email from AO stating that a specific computer has attempted to access my account.

The offending IP is 173.180.208.184

I strongly suggest that the admins & mods do an IP-lookup to cross-reference who the offending user is and then do a nice little IP-ban on the fucker. There is NO excuse to keep this user around after they have attempted twice to access my account.

Mods & Admin, please feel free to chime in with what your opinion on this matter is, and if you choose not to do an outright IP-Ban on that address, please let us know why. There's simply no reason to keep an IP-hacker on this forum.

Cheers from Tokyo, NOT British Columbia under the ip 173.180.208.184
 
Sha-Zam.
Just checking to make sure this posted properly.
 
I looked and he did not show up on Akiba
 
That IP address has been banned, although it's unclear what good that will do. Getting another public IP address is trivial.

I recommend that you change your password to something unique (only used here on Akiba-Online.)

If you want to resist brute-force password attacks, you need a password with at least 64 bits of entropy.
  • A password with 10 truly random alphanumeric+symbol characters has 65.5 bits of entropy.
  • A 5-word random diceware password has 64 bits of entropy. See https://entima.net/diceware/

If you want to resist brute-force password attacks AND a leak of the Akiba-Online database (it's happened before), you need a password with at least 90 bits of entropy.
  • A password with 14 truly random alphanumeric+symbol characters has 91.7 bits of entropy.
  • A 7-word random diceware password has 90 bits of entropy. See https://entima.net/diceware/

And of course you need to adequately protect your email account so that a hacker cannot "recover" your Akiba-Online password...
 
Rollyco said:
That IP address has been banned, although it's unclear what good that will do. Getting another public IP address is trivial.

I recommend that you change your password to something unique (only used here on Akiba-Online.)

If you want to resist brute-force password attacks, you need a password with at least 64 bits of entropy.
  • A password with 10 truly random alphanumeric+symbol characters has 65.5 bits of entropy.
  • A 5-word random diceware password has 64 bits of entropy. See https://entima.net/diceware/

If you want to resist brute-force password attacks AND a leak of the Akiba-Online database (it's happened before), you need a password with at least 90 bits of entropy.
  • A password with 14 truly random alphanumeric+symbol characters has 91.7 bits of entropy.
  • A 7-word random diceware password has 90 bits of entropy. See https://entima.net/diceware/

And of course you need to adequately protect your email account so that a hacker cannot "recover" your Akiba-Online password...
Click to expand...

now teach us how to remember that kind of password :perfectplan:
 
A 5-word diceware password is easy to remember.

Or better yet, use a password management program and give your brain a rest.
 
AI Roboform addon for firefox is free and it's soooooo useful that you'll wonder how you could live without it!

i don't know if it is also available for other browsers though
 
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