Possible hack of this site?

[Paulbot]

Heads up.

There's been what looks like an attempted hack on this forum over the past few days. Last night's 4000 users was not regular traffic. Unclear if it was successful, no obvious vandalism or malicious code added, but they might still be at it and it may be subtle.

If you use your OTCA signed up email and password on any other sites it would be a good idea to check those accounts and a better idea to have unique strong passwords for any important accounts, banking, online email, paypal etc.

[Borgeman]

Wait, 4k+ users - registered only or guests included?
Hopefully nothing comes of it.

Would have been better if the number was OVER 9000 for obvious reasons.

[Polursine]

I did notice a high amount of traffic to the point where the forum failed to load.

Bot traffic?

[drifand]

I know I can't access this site yesterday but didn't think much of it.

[griffin]

Wait, 4k+ users - registered only or guests included?
Hopefully nothing comes of it.

It was mostly guests from timezones that would be a time of night when most would be asleep.... so it isn't 4000 humans logging on.

[BruiseLee]

The irony of a fansite for bots invaded by bots?

[BruiseLee]

Would have been better if the number was OVER 9000 for obvious reasons.

I don't get it. What are you Saiyan?

[Sam]

It was mostly guests from timezones that would be a time of night when most would be asleep.... so it isn't 4000 humans logging on.

Perhaps you could ask the hosting provider to run trace route on the IPs during that time frame?

[Mythirax]

The irony of a fansite for bots invaded by bots?

Haha, good one

[Jetfire in the sky]

Would have been better if the number was OVER 9000 for obvious reasons.

I only know what this means because of Ronda Rousey's shirt at Wrestlemania this year. I had previously either missed what it meant growing up or am too old, I'm guessing the latter