Failed Notification
 

HI,
I have been receiving emails saying that there has been "failed notifications" regarding someone trying to break into my name and pw on here. And they have tried over 5 times with the pw or seomthing lke that. Has anyone heard of anything like this? THanks!:)

That doesn't sound good. I have never had that happen myself. :dunno:

I agree it doesn't sound good.

Thank you for replying!

Thank you for replying!

I had thought perhaps there was a member with a very similar user name trying to log in with your user name by mistake, but I don't see any user names like that.

Obviously if someone was trying to log in with your user name, they failed -
I haven't heard of this type of thing being a problem before. Can't imagine if it's random, or not.

That's not good. To be safe, change your password to something complex, if that's not already the case. I can't imagine why someone would want to hack an OB account, unless it's the spammers getting desperate.

I know it is weird. I thought the same about maybe someone having a close name. But when I rec'd a few emails that they keep trying, something just didn't feel right.

I have been going back and forth about this since last night, do I change a pw that obviously isn't easy to crack or change it to even more complex. Decisions, decisions. I also thought may be it had to do with the spam things that I read about prior to my first thread about this. Why would someone want to get into my account on the Orchid board. Doesn't make sense.

They may think that information about you is hidden in your user cp. they don't need much, just a city or location, not even a full address. Something similar happened to my Facebook account. The only thing they could harbor ten was my email address and birthdate. However only 1 hour after that charges were being made on my credit adds and bank accounts. Chances are good, in my opinion, they already has some information on you and they are looking to fill in the missing pieces. Take the extra work route, and change all of your accounts everywhere and request a new debit/credit cards. I know it's a lot of work and who I owe why they are doing it, but safer is far better in my experience.

And who knows... Not who I owe, lol... Tapatalk for ya!

Your experience is actually making a lot of sense now to me. I recently had a fraudulent charge on my cc. Oh no. I never connected the two. I did change my pw last night but thanks for the experience and suggestions...going to do that right now.

I would agree with Paul. It's a headache to change everything, but it's worth it.
I find with us, we tend to have issues with our debit card - maybe someone copying it. Our bank has been pretty good as they monitor our account and replace our cards immediately when they see something fishy.

ah - Paul makes a good point - I have read that most people tend to use the same pw for many accounts, and if they can 'break' one account, and possibly find some usable info there, they may also have your pw for other accounts. Obviously they weren't able to guess your pw, but never hurts to be careful and change it.

I still don't see what would be of value on OB. There are no real names used most of the time, no credit card numbers, addresses, phone numbers....

They might not know that Camille. But you never know what they are after, and every small piece, no matter how trivial, is still a piece. It's also possible they are after any digital uploaded images as they are usually embedded with information.

right...getting your IP address gets them inside your computer...they get your email address and password by creating a fake page where you enter infos...
it can start with just this harmless ID and password from OB
but I highly doubt it...because OB uses a complicated cookie bounce that if youre a bonafide legit member your Ip and cookie must match to the ID and password...hence the rejection and failed notification...OB protects us from harm

Not so sure I follow you Bud. I've been in other states, Bermuda, Mexico and Costa Rica logging in on other computers (hotel and friends) with absolutely no failed notifications. Not sure an IP is what OB blocks. But perhaps my definition of IP is off since technology changes daily, l...

THanks!