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Security Report

This site, like pretty much every site on the Internet, battles people who are trying to harm the site by hacking and/or stealing our content. The number of questionable bots crawling our sites is rather amazing. We don't track suspicious behavior on every page, but for the pages that we do monitor, here's the percentage of bots vs real users for each of the past 7 days:

2025-01-15   –   6%
2025-01-16   –   6%
2025-01-17   –   6%
2025-01-18   –   5%
2025-01-19   –   5%
2025-01-20   –   5%
2025-01-21   –   6%

That just includes the bots that execute Javascript and act like human users. Then there are a whole bunch of other bots crawling our sites as well. Some are good (like GoogleBot and BingBot), others aren't good – they're trying to hack us and steal our content.

Banned IP Addresses

When we clearly identify attempts to hack our site or violate our policies we ban the IP in question. Just in the past month, on the network of sites that we run, we have banned 512 IP addresses from the places around the world (each line represents a banned IP address):

  1. 2025-01-21 – (Unknown location)
  2. 2025-01-19 – (Unknown location)
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  294. 2025-01-01 – (Unknown location)
  295. 2025-01-01 – (Unknown location)
  296. 2025-01-01 – Ireland
  297. 2025-01-01 – (Unknown location)
  298. 2025-01-01 – Russia
  299. 2025-01-01 – Albania -> Tirana
  300. 2025-01-01 – United States
  301. 2025-01-01 – Sweden
  302. 2025-01-01 – Kazakhstan
  303. 2025-01-01 – United Arab Emirates
  304. 2025-01-01 – Russia
  305. 2025-01-01 – Hong Kong -> Wan Tsai
  306. 2025-01-01 – United States -> Atlanta
  307. 2024-12-31 – Canada
  308. 2024-12-31 – China
  309. 2024-12-31 – United Kingdom
  310. 2024-12-31 – France
  311. 2024-12-31 – Kazakhstan
  312. 2024-12-31 – China
  313. 2024-12-31 – Sweden
  314. 2024-12-31 – Russia
  315. 2024-12-31 – United States -> Miami
  316. 2024-12-31 – Japan
  317. 2024-12-31 – Indonesia
  318. 2024-12-31 – Australia -> Sydney
  319. 2024-12-31 – United States -> Los Angeles
  320. 2024-12-31 – China
  321. 2024-12-31 – Israel
  322. 2024-12-31 – Egypt
  323. 2024-12-31 – New Zealand -> Auckland
  324. 2024-12-31 – Hungary
  325. 2024-12-31 – Serbia -> Belgrade
  326. 2024-12-31 – United States
  327. 2024-12-31 – China
  328. 2024-12-30 – Indonesia
  329. 2024-12-30 – United Kingdom -> London
  330. 2024-12-30 – Netherlands
  331. 2024-12-30 – United States
  332. 2024-12-30 – New Zealand -> Auckland
  333. 2024-12-30 – Slovakia
  334. 2024-12-30 – Russia
  335. 2024-12-30 – Ukraine
  336. 2024-12-30 – United States -> Chicago
  337. 2024-12-30 – United States
  338. 2024-12-30 – Hungary -> Budapest
  339. 2024-12-30 – Russia
  340. 2024-12-30 – Italy
  341. 2024-12-30 – United States
  342. 2024-12-30 – United States
  343. 2024-12-30 – China
  344. 2024-12-30 – United Kingdom
  345. 2024-12-30 – United States
  346. 2024-12-30 – China
  347. 2024-12-29 – Poland
  348. 2024-12-29 – United States
  349. 2024-12-29 – Russia
  350. 2024-12-29 – Ukraine
  351. 2024-12-29 – China
  352. 2024-12-29 – United States
  353. 2024-12-29 – Czech Republic
  354. 2024-12-29 – Brazil
  355. 2024-12-29 – Canada -> Toronto
  356. 2024-12-29 – Israel
  357. 2024-12-29 – Russia
  358. 2024-12-29 – United States
  359. 2024-12-29 – Poland
  360. 2024-12-29 – United States -> Seattle
  361. 2024-12-29 – United Kingdom
  362. 2024-12-29 – United States
  363. 2024-12-29 – United Kingdom -> London
  364. 2024-12-29 – United States
  365. 2024-12-29 – United States
  366. 2024-12-28 – United States -> New York
  367. 2024-12-28 – Venezuela -> Caracas
  368. 2024-12-28 – Bahamas -> Nassau
  369. 2024-12-28 – United States
  370. 2024-12-28 – Albania -> Tirana
  371. 2024-12-28 – Germany
  372. 2024-12-28 – Ukraine
  373. 2024-12-28 – United Kingdom
  374. 2024-12-28 – Cyprus
  375. 2024-12-28 – France
  376. 2024-12-28 – United Kingdom
  377. 2024-12-28 – (Unknown location)
  378. 2024-12-28 – China
  379. 2024-12-28 – United Kingdom
  380. 2024-12-28 – Netherlands
  381. 2024-12-28 – United States
  382. 2024-12-28 – Trinidad and Tobago
  383. 2024-12-28 – Poland
  384. 2024-12-28 – China
  385. 2024-12-28 – Finland
  386. 2024-12-27 – Bulgaria
  387. 2024-12-27 – United States -> Houston
  388. 2024-12-27 – France
  389. 2024-12-27 – United States -> Sioux Falls
  390. 2024-12-27 – (Unknown location)
  391. 2024-12-27 – Slovakia
  392. 2024-12-27 – United States -> San Francisco
  393. 2024-12-27 – Netherlands
  394. 2024-12-27 – United Kingdom
  395. 2024-12-27 – United States
  396. 2024-12-27 – United States
  397. 2024-12-27 – Russia
  398. 2024-12-27 – United States
  399. 2024-12-27 – United States -> San Francisco
  400. 2024-12-27 – United States
  401. 2024-12-27 – Germany
  402. 2024-12-27 – Germany
  403. 2024-12-27 – Iran
  404. 2024-12-27 – China
  405. 2024-12-27 – United States
  406. 2024-12-27 – China
  407. 2024-12-27 – Russia -> Moscow
  408. 2024-12-27 – United States
  409. 2024-12-26 – Ukraine
  410. 2024-12-26 – Russia
  411. 2024-12-26 – Sweden
  412. 2024-12-26 – United States
  413. 2024-12-26 – China
  414. 2024-12-26 – Russia
  415. 2024-12-26 – United States -> Houston
  416. 2024-12-26 – Montenegro
  417. 2024-12-26 – Iraq
  418. 2024-12-26 – Uzbekistan
  419. 2024-12-26 – United States
  420. 2024-12-26 – United States -> Chicago
  421. 2024-12-26 – United Kingdom
  422. 2024-12-26 – United Kingdom -> Manchester
  423. 2024-12-26 – Jordan
  424. 2024-12-26 – United Kingdom
  425. 2024-12-26 – Romania
  426. 2024-12-26 – China
  427. 2024-12-25 – Spain
  428. 2024-12-25 – Czech Republic
  429. 2024-12-25 – China
  430. 2024-12-25 – Albania -> Tirana
  431. 2024-12-25 – Romania
  432. 2024-12-25 – Spain
  433. 2024-12-25 – United States
  434. 2024-12-25 – Bahamas -> Nassau
  435. 2024-12-25 – Morocco
  436. 2024-12-25 – United States -> Chicago
  437. 2024-12-25 – United Kingdom
  438. 2024-12-25 – China
  439. 2024-12-25 – United States
  440. 2024-12-25 – Spain
  441. 2024-12-25 – Iran
  442. 2024-12-25 – China
  443. 2024-12-25 – United States -> Los Angeles
  444. 2024-12-25 – (Unknown location)
  445. 2024-12-25 – United States
  446. 2024-12-25 – Australia -> Perth
  447. 2024-12-25 – United States
  448. 2024-12-24 – United States -> Seattle
  449. 2024-12-24 – Jordan
  450. 2024-12-24 – Cambodia -> Phnom Penh
  451. 2024-12-24 – United Kingdom -> London
  452. 2024-12-24 – New Zealand -> Auckland
  453. 2024-12-24 – China
  454. 2024-12-24 – United Kingdom
  455. 2024-12-24 – Russia
  456. 2024-12-24 – India
  457. 2024-12-24 – Slovakia
  458. 2024-12-24 – Canada -> Montreal
  459. 2024-12-24 – Germany -> Frankfurt am Main
  460. 2024-12-24 – Bulgaria
  461. 2024-12-24 – China
  462. 2024-12-24 – United States
  463. 2024-12-24 – United States -> Seattle
  464. 2024-12-24 – China
  465. 2024-12-24 – United States
  466. 2024-12-24 – China
  467. 2024-12-24 – United States
  468. 2024-12-24 – China
  469. 2024-12-24 – Hong Kong
  470. 2024-12-24 – United States
  471. 2024-12-23 – United States
  472. 2024-12-23 – United States
  473. 2024-12-23 – Morocco
  474. 2024-12-23 – Indonesia
  475. 2024-12-23 – United States -> Sioux Falls
  476. 2024-12-23 – United States
  477. 2024-12-23 – China
  478. 2024-12-23 – Albania -> Tirana
  479. 2024-12-23 – Greece
  480. 2024-12-23 – Australia -> Perth
  481. 2024-12-23 – France
  482. 2024-12-23 – (Unknown location)
  483. 2024-12-23 – France
  484. 2024-12-23 – Iraq
  485. 2024-12-23 – United Kingdom
  486. 2024-12-23 – United States
  487. 2024-12-23 – Canada -> Dawson Creek
  488. 2024-12-23 – Canada
  489. 2024-12-23 – Poland
  490. 2024-12-23 – United States
  491. 2024-12-23 – Aruba
  492. 2024-12-23 – China
  493. 2024-12-23 – United States
  494. 2024-12-23 – United States
  495. 2024-12-23 – Russia
  496. 2024-12-22 – United States
  497. 2024-12-22 – Brazil
  498. 2024-12-22 – Romania
  499. 2024-12-22 – Germany
  500. 2024-12-22 – China
  501. 2024-12-22 – United States
  502. 2024-12-22 – United States
  503. 2024-12-22 – Japan -> Tokyo
  504. 2024-12-22 – South Africa
  505. 2024-12-22 – Greece
  506. 2024-12-22 – Iran
  507. 2024-12-22 – United States -> Columbus
  508. 2024-12-22 – Latvia
  509. 2024-12-22 – United States
  510. 2024-12-22 – Iran
  511. 2024-12-22 – Finland
  512. 2024-12-22 – Netherlands

Each of these instances represents an attempt to harm our sites or our users. (And those are just the ones we were confident enough about to take action on.)