Failed log in notification

[jbrain]

In the past week i have been notified by the administrator of another forum. that i haven't visited for maybe 6 months,the following email

Someone has tried to log into your account on xxxxxxxxxxxxx - Satellite Tv with an incorrect password at least 5 times. This person has been prevented from attempting to login to your account for the next 15 minutes.

The person trying to log into your account had the following IP address: 188.143.234.6

Both times the IP address was the same. What does this indicate?

The IP address by the way traces to St Petersburg.

I have Avast and registered version with real time protection of Malwarebytes installed for ages.

[Chicog]

I would have thought it was obvious. Someone is trying to get into your account with password guesses.

[jbrain]

I would have thought it was obvious. Someone is trying to get into your account with password guesses.

Yes that is obvious, but why would someone in Russia twice pick my account ?

How does he know I have an account, I have never posted on that forum, only read.

[RKASA]

Sounds like the forum is using fail to ban log in or someone wants you to think so, they don't normally contact you when it happens - just lock it till the cracker moves on. So maybe they hacked the forum for email address already and use this old let us help you trick - they may have hacked the forum for your email - so they would then know you had an account. Don't email back log into the forum and use some sort of PM to admin. You may only end up varifing it is an active email address for them by doing so.

[jbrain]

I think it's an automated message.

If they have hacked the forum database, they have my email already, why would they want to log into my account?

I doubt they gonna post some messages in the name of every member of that forum.

[KittenKong]

Yes that is obvious, but why would someone in Russia twice pick my account ?

Probably not a someone but a something. These password hacking attempts are usually done by robots. You should see the number of fake admin login attempts you get on most Wordpress sites if you dont protect them, and most of those attempts come from Russia or nearby countries.

How does he know I have an account, I have never posted on that forum, only read.

Maybe your screen name appears on a list of members somewhere on the site?

[RichCor]

Jbrain, why didn't you just admit that they tried to hack into your Pokemon account? Really, at your age?

Did a gis of your IP, seems a LOT of systems are getting the attempts from the same IP, as in the Pokemon thread above. Hacker School maybe?
Some sites report that the intruder is going through their userbase alphabetically, suggesting that they've hacked the system and gotten clear emails but haven't decoded the encrypted passwords.

[jbrain]

Jbrain, why didn't you just admit that they tried to hack into your Pokemon account? Really, at your age?

Did a gis of your IP, seems a LOT of systems are getting the attempts from the same IP, as in the Pokemon thread above. Hacker School maybe?

Some sites report that the intruder is going through their userbase alphabetically, suggesting that they've hacked the system and gotten clear emails but haven't decoded the encrypted passwords.

Good find there, it must indeed be a hacker organization, but a lousy one because on websites where I have to register to view but never post, I always use the password 123456

Never been to the Pokemon site either, anything useful on there ?