Yes because a) people are malicious and b) it costs them nothing. There are plenty of "stress test your website" sites that use botnets to do evil things when asked to, either for free or a small fee. The attacker gets nothing other than "winning" the argument.

It definitely isn't. The hacker was downloading the complete members table which allows him to compromise many user accounts on this forum as well as other sites.

Selling email addresses might be a side income for him with no extra effort until he brute-forces the passwords.

15 XAU....how much is that in US Dollars?  If it isn't enough for me I will not tell what I know about the attack.  Hint -- it came from China.  They are trying to counterfeit and steal everything in the world, and it seems like no one tries to stop them.

My password was a single keyboard character repeated 10 times, maybe I should change it?

And no amount of security in the world will stop this if some dumbass at the data center believes what someone on the phone tells him and resets the access password.

1 XAU = ~ 1200USD

rest of post is just bullshit, sorry.

What's the limit for passwords? I tried using an unreasonably large string as my password and didn't receive any error messages (despite the load time after I press the login button being huge). Were the last characters of the string cut off for it to fit a certain limit?

As far as I can see no one had access to my account. I have set a stronger password just in case. Better safe than sorry. Credits to theymos for his hard work.

Actually there is quite some damage. Passwords are irrelevant,as they can be changed.
A lot of people are going to be targeted due to this
There are people who sometimes use a VPN, and some that don't use it at all. We will see what happens in the future.
Hopefully the attacker gets found.

I am not sure why anyone would consider not using a VPN. They are really not very expensive to use and they provide a lot of added privacy.

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