nocte
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are you sure? Normally these attackers use a set of email / password combinations and then try one after another - and only some of them will work. So you will most likely have masses of failed logins.the problem is, he's not failing a login attempt..
See my post here:
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- Turn on Captacha on Login. This will avoid any kind of brute-force login attacks.
- Monitor failed logins. If there are a lot of failed logins, probably someone is trying to hack accounts.