&gt;&gt; Seeing your account, and a number of dissident or activists being attacked from a block of IPs or similar password attempts, probably means the attack is state sponsored.<p>Used to work at a fairly large global corporation. One day I was chatting up one of the senior sys admins. He was talking about the incredible traffic that bombards their server everyday. I was pretty naive back then and said, &quot;Cmon man, it can&#x27;t be <i>that</i> much!&quot;<p>He opened his terminal and ran a simple monitoring tool, then opened one another terminal. In one was the constant traffic to several of their applications that were from a specific block of IP addresses he thought he had traced back to China. The other window was a running queue of mistyped password attempts. It was like clockwork. They&#x27;d try three, get kicked out of the system, then in an instant, you&#x27;d see a flurry of new IP addresses from the same block, then some more attempts to guess the password. Kicked out, rinse, repeat.<p>In the span of five minutes, I must have seen two dozen failed attempts to try and do a dictionary password attack on their login page. He guessed it was some kind of a bot that was running the tests considering how mechanical and orderly the attacks were.<p>It really opened my eyes as to how often and how many businesses these governments go after for intellectual property.