My account or IP address has been locked down/out

When suspicious behaviour indicative of a password brute force attempt is detected, the Freosan Studios website can automatically lock down the affected account or lock out an IP address.

Lockout of IP addresses

When too many failed attempts to log in are detected from an IP address, it will be locked out from further attempts for a time. When this occurs, all attempts to login to any account, regardless of whether the correct password and username is introduced or not, will silently fail.

Lockdown of accounts

Similarly, if too many failed attempts to log in to a given account are detected, it will be locked down. Any attempts to login to it, regardless of whether a password is correctly introduced or not, will fail. The registered account's email will also receive an email notifying them of the lockdown, and what they can do about it.