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Old 10-14-2009, 12:21 AM
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It's happened to me before.
On Steam some guy from central america hijacked my account;kind of my fault of having the simple password of "shrimptempura".

Apparently that word is in the dictionary and he got into it using some kind of Brute Force program that enters every word in the dictionary until it gains access.
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Old 10-14-2009, 12:25 AM
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Which is why i never use passwords that are found in dictionaries.

Frankly if there is a hacker attempting to find and hack admin accounts we can find them and block the IP somehow.
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