Getting failed login notification emails

John

I've gotten two emails from boards over the weekend:

Dear John,

Someone has tried to log into your account on boards.ie with an incorrect password at least 5 times. This person has been prevented from attempting to login to your account for the next 15 minutes.

The person trying to log into your account had the following IP address: 99.73.110.40

All the best,
boards.ie

Is there anything I'm supposed to do or is there anything that can be done to stop them? Needless to say that's not my IP address (it's from Illinois I think?). My username was originally John2 and Cloud (I think it was Cloud) gave me the long defunct John username (hadn't been used since the first year of the site), I wonder if it's the original John trying to log in?

John

Got a third one, same IP address.

LoLth

Unfortunately, there's really not much we can do that IP is part of the AT&T public netblock so has a high chance of not being statically assigned. if we were to block the IP we could be blocking legitimate users once the Ip moves on ot a new owner.

Simialrly, we cannot prevent people from attempting to log in to your account, its just not feasibly possible physically or technologically.

The only advice I can offer is that you ensure your password is suitably complex. If its the original John, I'm sure he'll contact boards eventually if he wants access and we can let him know that he'll have to create a new account.

John

If all of a sudden I start shilling or spamming, it's not me!