Attempted breach of my Wiki account: Part 7
editOn 25 Dec 2012 at 9:22 PM someone from the IP address 173.71.20.182 tried to get into my Wikipedia account by requesting a new password for my account. That IP address appears to be coming from Dallas or Denton, Texas.
Attempted breach of my Wiki account: Part 6
editOn 19 Sep 2011 at 12:40 AM someone from the IP address 133.11.205.17 tried to get into my Wikipedia account by requesting a new password for my account. That IP address appears to be coming from the University of Tokyo.
This is the sixth time that this has happened (see below).
Attempted breach of my Wiki account: Part 5
editOn 24 Aug 2010 at 1:38 PM someone from the IP address 98.26.54.90 tried to get into my Wikipedia account by requesting a new password for my account. That IP address appears to be coming from Raleigh, NC 27613.
This is the fifth time that this has happened (see below).
Attempted breach of my Wiki account: Part 4
editOn 18 Feb 2010 at 1:48 AM someone from the IP address 117.200.213.184 tried to get into my Wikipedia account by requesting a new password for my account. Someone from that IP address has posted on Wikihow.[1]
This is the fourth time that this has happened (see below).
Attempted breach of my Wiki account: Part 3
editOn 26 May 2008 at 3:21 AM someone from the IP address 70.189.252.44 tried to get into my Wikipedia account by requesting a new password for my account. That IP Address appears to be coming from Las Vegas.
This is the third time in nine months that this has happened (see below).
Attempted breach of my Wiki account: Part 2
editOn 11 December 2007 at 6:16 PM someone from the IP address 190.93.25.132 tried to get into my Wikipedia account by requesting a new password for my account. That IP Address appears to be coming from Uruguay.
This is the second time this year that this has happened (see below).
Attempted breach of my Wiki account: Part 1
editOn August 15, 2007 at 5:38 p.m. Pacific Standard Time, someone from the IP address 12.42.183.2 tried to get into my account. His strategy was to request that Wikipedia create a new login password for my account. Which Wikipedia did - and sent it to my email address. Which is how I found out about it.
According to Wikipedia's email,
- "If someone else made this request, or if you have remembered your password and you no longer wish to change it, you may safely ignore this message. Your old/existing password will continue to work despite this new password being created for you."
In other words, WIkipedia is saying, "If someone's trying to break into your account, don't sweat it, and don't let us know."
Doesn't it seem like Wikipedia should want to know about that sort of thing? It's not as if someone accidentally tried to log into my account and then accidentally requested a new password for me.
An update: this IP address appears to be located in Bridgeton, Missouri, and the user contributed two edits to Wikipedia, both on the entry for List of Korean Americans.
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