[MRM]

Every once in a while sites like Pelican are attacked by scammers who run a program that tries to log in on all the usernames in the forum by using either the username as the password or simple passwords like password, 123456, etc. I remember that happened here about 10 years ago or so. Maybe someone targeted Pelican like that again and scooped up some login information and is using it on dormant accounts to avoid detection longer than if they used active accounts.