Your account is not banned

[Kiwimac]

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All of a sudden I have a strange banner telling me that my account is not banned.

Never seen that before. Why am I seeing it now?

[andybarton]

Because of the firewall problems yesterday, people were getting notifications that their accounts were banned. Which there were not. 

Click the X and it'll go away, or click the banner and it'll tell you. 

[John Robinson]

I also saw this but in addition had a very peculiar e-mail telling me I have been inactive for a long time (I have not), that I am in Chennai, India (I am not) and asking me to log in again (I did).  I was then advised to change my password which I also did but now the system still thinks I am logging in from India.

Is this what you would expect to see from a "firewall problem" or has there been a security breach on the site?

[frame-it]

3 minutes ago, John Robinson said:

 has there been a security breach on the site?

would be funny if its because of this >

 

[Alberti]

And I got a request by email — to see if it's really me:

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Device                         Computer   
Estimated Location    Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, 60313, Germany

Well that's a bit off - more than 100km. So a bit strange. The mailer wanted me to 'secure my account'. Log in – of course using the provided embedded link. 😪 

i see John has the same problem, at least he does not hear that song Hey Ms Robinson from The Graduate by Simon and Garfunkel. 😁

Edited 13 hours ago by Alberti

[andybarton]

12 minutes ago, John Robinson said:

has there been a security breach on the site?

There has been no security breach. 

Andreas has explained the problem in the About the Forum area and in the Announcement at the head of the forum pages. 

[Keith (M)]

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Having reset my password and regained access, the email about "not been active for a while" also tells me that I too am in Chennai.  No, the 🍺 are not on me!

[John Robinson]

I understand that Chennai is a centre of excellence for IT services and consultancy so may not such a bad location ...