Dictionary attack on the forums?

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raevol
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Dictionary attack on the forums?

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Hey, I just got hit with the captcha on my way to logging in, looks like someone might be trying to dictionary attack my account? That or something went goofy with the forums during our downtime. Just a heads up.
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same here.
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raevol
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A note for anyone else running into this (I just ran into it again): I think you have to answer the math questions with a word, not a number, like "nine" rather than "9".
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idem for me.
answering with a number works.
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Hi,
sorry I was off-line yesterday - website should work without problems (I'm going check the logs from yesterday - just in case).
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lgromanowski wrote:Hi,
sorry I was off-line yesterday - website should work without problems (I'm going check the logs from yesterday - just in case).
Ok, bugtracker is not working. I'm going to check what's going on.
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had similar situation yesterday with my login

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silentthief wrote:had similar situation yesterday with my login

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I cleared forum cache and sessions it should help.
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