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My accounts are being subject to cracking

By Troll Hard (Wed Oct 03, 2007 at 05:39:38 PM EST) Accounts, password, hacking, cracking, crackers, security (all tags)

I got locked out of various accounts of mine with my other ID because someone is trying to crack the password to them. One of them being my old account here. So I created a new account. When they get a failed cracking attempt it shuts me out of my account for 15 minutes or more for too many failed password attempts. It is sort of like a denial of service attack.

I guess I pissed someone off, or I have gotten so popular that people are willing to crack the password to my famous accounts in my old ID name?

Just how do you protect your accounts from crackers? I am talking about the hacker type of cracker and not a poor white person from the southern United States of America.

I reset the password to my old account here, but the new password did not work. Then it got reset twice.

Full discussion: http://www.hulver.com/scoop/story/2007/10/3/173938/861