Hacked Accounts, Bots And Weak Passwords

[Takumaji]

It has come to our attention that a number of member accounts have been hacked and taken over by bots. In most cases, a weak password has been the entry point (vector) of the attack.

A weak password is one that consists of very common words or names such as summer, love, the name of one of your friends, wife/husband or kids, names of popular electronics brands, short words where certain letters have been replaced by numbers (h3llo, 1337), etc. The shorter the password, the weaker it is.

A good/strong password has a length of at least 10 characters and is a mixture of uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers and special characters like #, - or +. Ideally, it's unpronounceable like this: hB4-9;uwP+.

If you have a short or weak password, please change it to something more secure in order to protect your privacy, help us battle the bots and keep this place tidy.

Thank you.

 

[max 330 megafartz]

Dammit. Ive had the same shitty 7 letter password here for just shy of 20 years now. I guess i finally have to change it to Neogeoisgay69 or something else similarly complex.

 

[Takumaji]

Yeah, definitely can't hurt to change a password if it's older than a year or two. The longer a password gets used, the higher the chance of a compromise, statistically speaking.

 

[GohanX]

Dammit. Ive had the same shitty 7 letter password here for just shy of 20 years now. I guess i finally have to change it to Neogeoisgay69 or something else similarly complex.

Yeah, this was my issue. Same password since I started. Then the bots got me.

PS, want some hot womens in your area?

 

[Neodogg]

Yeah, this was my issue. Same password since I started. Then the bots got me.

PS, want some hot womens in your area?

ugh, I must be gay. I changed my 20+ year old password...

 

[Gentlegamer]

changing password to w33bsRh0m05

 

[Sengoku Fan]

Thanks @Takumaji for looking out for us.
I've changed and beefed up my password to prevent any shenanigans with my account.

 

[BeefJerky]

to prevent any shenanigans with my account.

You mean aside from skirting a ban with an alt account, @Freelancer ?

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[Moob Butter]

Is that really proof it’s Freelancer?

 

[Damsco]

Why would it matter unless you allow bots to hammer your login page? An old warroom locked account of mine had "fuckrot" as password and i never had issues with it.

 

[StevenK]

Why would it matter unless you allow bots to hammer your login page? An old warroom locked account of mine had "fuckrot" as password and i never had issues with it.

Did you?

 

[BeefJerky]

Why would it matter unless you allow bots to hammer your login page? An old warroom locked account of mine had "fuckrot" as password and i never had issues with it.

So which account was it? You keep teasing us but won't say who you were.

 

[smokey]

My password is still the same as in 2001.

 

[StevenK]

Is it waffle

 

[Arcademan]

My password is drowssap

 

[Takumaji]

Why would it matter unless you allow bots to hammer your login page? An old warroom locked account of mine had "fuckrot" as password and i never had issues with it.

Don't fool yourself, the only reason your new account is still here is because your old one got fucked with by Rot.

Security matters.

Now shtum.

 

[Tripredacus]

You are seeing many (hundred/thousands) login failures on accounts?

 

[pixeljunkie]

Dang, yeah - just updated my 20 year old PW lol - thanks, Rayban Deal posts avoided