AI-powered login attacks hit 11-year-old podcast site: 30% of all attempts in one day
NathanpmYoung · x · 2026-11-06
The maintainer of the HPMoR audiobook podcast, a site 11 years past its peak, reports that 30% of all attempted false logins in the site's lifetime came in the last 24 hours — clearly someone pointed an AI at it. Even though the attempts are low-effort, the incident raises a sobering question: how is any one-man side project supposed to survive this era of cheap AI-driven abuse?
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