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Too Many Login Attempts
The website security component recognizes multiple failed logins as possible brute-force hacking attacks. Since we use Multi-Factor Authentication to protect login accounts, this issue will probably go away. However, just in case you are confounded by the "too many attempts" error message, read this:
- Web browsers retain certain links or auto-downloaded code, such as "cookie", sent by websites to user’s browsers.
- One such "cookie" is the sessionID.
- If a logged-in user quits the website without logging off, the browser retains and uses the expired sessionID when the user next attempts to login.
- The website security component will not allow an expired session to be re-opened.
- Avoid this issue by changing your browser settings to permanently remove all web cache and web history when you close your browser: