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Question Do you know when your account is (ab)used?

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2 years 10 months ago #2051 by Ruud van Lent
Do you know when your account is (ab)used? was created by Ruud van Lent

Recently I noticed that one of my trusted customers was downloading all extensions he had a subscriptions for. No issue there, but I noticed that the download originated from an Iranian IP Address.

I contacted my customer by email and asked him if it was him who was doing the downloads: it turned out that he wasn't the person logged in!

The username and password that he used on my site (and that he also used on other sites) was compromised.

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