Account Hacking Attempt - Offender: 173.180.208.184

[aquamarine]

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

 

[aquamarine]

Sha-Zam.
Just checking to make sure this posted properly.

 

[CoolKevin]

I looked and he did not show up on Akiba

 

[elgringo14]

More specifically, that IP was not used to post on the forum or to register an account. I'm not sure we have more logs about it.

 

[Rollyco]

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...

 

[kraidazen]

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...

now teach us how to remember that kind of password erfectplan:

 

[Rollyco]

A 5-word diceware password is easy to remember.

Or better yet, use a password management program and give your brain a rest.

 

[Desu]

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