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Road Cycling “It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.” -- Ernest Hemingway

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Old 03-23-15 | 11:37 AM
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Over the weekend I received an email stating that someone tried to logon to my account with the incorrect password 5 times and then was locked out. I checked the geolocation of the IP address and it was in Mexico City. Here's my question, what kind of info do they think they would gather? Has anyone else ever had someone try to hack in their account? Maybe they wanted to post some great rides or make some snarky comments on riding in Mexico City I don't know.
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Old 03-23-15 | 12:15 PM
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Originally Posted by floridamtb
Over the weekend I received an email stating that someone tried to logon to my account with the incorrect password 5 times and then was locked out. I checked the geolocation of the IP address and it was in Mexico City. Here's my question, what kind of info do they think they would gather? Has anyone else ever had someone try to hack in their account? Maybe they wanted to post some great rides or make some snarky comments on riding in Mexico City I don't know.
Maybe they misspelled their username and ended up with yours by mistake.
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Old 03-23-15 | 12:24 PM
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I figured you use the same password here as your bank.
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Old 03-23-15 | 03:13 PM
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better question; who cares?
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Old 03-23-15 | 03:15 PM
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I figured you use the same password here as your bank.
What is the pass word to your bank?
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Old 03-24-15 | 09:14 AM
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I got the same message
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Old 03-24-15 | 09:33 AM
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What is the pass word to your bank?
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Old 03-24-15 | 10:31 AM
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track the person down and hack their account
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