Attempted hack of my Team17 forum account

[Andy]

Hi,

Hoping someone can do something about this. At the very least consider this a public posting of a f*k who attempts to hack people's accounts.

I received an email saying someone from IP 83.240.163.234 has tried 5 times to log into my account.

This IP is from Portugal. :(

[thomasp]

It was probably an automated attempt that was testing a variety of forum user names and trying obvious passwords to gain access to the accounts. Unfortunately this is quite common over the internet and there's not really much we can do about it.

Alternatively it was a genuine mistake - someone thought they'd registered on here under "Andy", and was trying to log in.