Some members (and myself) get the following error when logging in:
You exceeded the maximum allowed number of login attempts
This happens directly when logging in for the first time, the setting is that it should occur after entering 3 times the wrong login/password. Are hackers trying to login?
My forum members have experienced a sudden increase in this message. Like, they went from never seeing it to all the sudden a couple days ago they all see it every time they try to log in for the first time.
And then I came here to post a topic about it, and phpbb.com had me fill in a capcha because I'd exceeded the maximum allowed number of login attempts! I haven't logged in for a while.
This makes me think there's some kind of widespread phpbb attack thing going on, lots of bots trying lots of times to log in as anyone.
well if it's a bug it's not a new bug, because I was running 3.0.5 when my users started getting it last week. Upgraded to 3.0.8 to see if that'd fix it and it doesn't.
my users made a big deal about it because they're usually pretty drunk or high and that makes captcha tough, ya know.