The e-mail account I use on this forum I generally don't use for much else, but I happened to check it just a little while ago and got three e-mails from bitcointalk stating that someone had used the "forgot password" function for my account, and all three attempts were over the course of about an hour.
Send the big man a PM with the time stamps of the emails, he might have the IP of the culprit. Of course it could just be a tor exit node or whatever, but it could be not.
I'm not crazy, right?
Um, no comment, but that's off topic.
That means someone is trying to get into my account, right? What I don't understand is why that person would try to do that if they don't know what my e-mail is.
Sounds that way to me.
And after giving it a little thought, I have exposed a few e-mail addresses to members of the forum in the past, whether through deals or by becoming acquaintances with those members. I'm wondering if one of those people thought I used whatever e-mail they had as my forum e-mail....and that's a frightening thought.
You should change all the passwords on those email accounts, pronto. If they've been compromised you may not know unless the culprit sent an email, or changed the password.
So if you should happen to see my account start posting in the Russian section or if my English deteriorates to brain-vegetable bounty hunter quality, just know that I got hacked and neg my account to high hell until I get it back.
This is the first time something like this has happened to me since I've been a member. Yikes.
Honestly, it sounds like an amateur attempt. Still you may want to assess the strength of you passwords for your forum account and the affiliated email account, and take action if needed.