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Also known as: hijacked account
Unauthorised use of a Usenet account, almost always following password reuse or sharing rather than any break in the encrypted transport. The symptoms resemble oversubscription: refusals once the connection limit is reached, a metered block draining faster than expected, or logins from unfamiliar addresses. Remedies are a password change, removal of stale IP authentication entries, and terminating active sessions.
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