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Originally Posted by Xander756  Yeah they used a brute force. |
Over the web? Couldn't your host detect, say, 100 login attempts within an hour to one particular account and lock for a day it if they're detected?
If your password was all lowercase a-z and six letters long, it'd have taken up to 308,915,776 attempts to guess it... (unless they used a dictionary attack and your password was in a dictionary)
How'd you know who it was? Any reason they did it(just wondering)?