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Old Oct 8, 2014 | 8:27 am
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xandern
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Originally Posted by Zeeb
Anybody else getting a CAPTCHA this morning trying to log in to HHonors? Of course, the website was still down afterword. But having the CAPCHA was a first for me. I'm totally okay with it though, since it makes it tougher to brute force passwords and login credentials.
I noticed the same thing earlier today. It almost certainly has to do with the large number of reports of people having their HHonors account hacked, maybe this simply happened by an automatic system attempting to log in via the outdated and insecure 4 digit pincode system.
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