I just read GitHUb’s new blog post about some account which used weak passwords had been comprised. My login credential is still intact, no warning for me, but this was what I saw in Security History:

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12 in total, about 30 minutes apart from each other, all failed. Guess that my password is strong enough, or just not utterly simple. How could someone’s account get hacked by just 12 attempts? There must be some universally sweet password that I don’t know about.

These brute force attempts made up one third of the number of entire log entries, good job, bad guy, spam the logs. Not sure what the bad guy did with hacked accounts? Commit malicious codes?