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InsaneJournal Summer Sale Update

squeaky

7/3/19 09:54 am

Thank you all so much for supporting InsaneJournal, I hope you have found value in our summer sale. We will continue the sale through Sunday July 7th.

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• tessisamess

  7/24/19 02:08 am (UTC)

  

  Yeah, this is a huge security issue, and it needs to be addressed by you. If our accounts are that easily compromised, something needs to be changed in how login attempts are handled immediately.
  
  It's not just limited to Insanejournal as the sole concern, as togetherinparis points out; if access to our emails and at least one password used in conjunction with that email is stolen, there's a good chance the person or people doing this could be using the information they're getting to try to gain access to people's accounts on other sites as well, some of which may store things like credit card information and phone numbers.
  
  I second limiting login attempts to three attempts per X amount of hours, and requiring more complex passwords for accounts. Security of users' information and accounts should be top priority.

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  • rename

    7/24/19 04:51 pm (UTC)

    even limiting to 3 instead of 5 is a good idea, if you mess up twice you're going to send the password to yourself and log in using the correct pw. like i said in my comment they can limit how many times you can send a pw to yourself so why not limit how many times you can attempt to log in in 24 hours?

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