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Date/Time: Wed, 27 Nov 2024 06:33:41 +0000



I strongly suspect my account had been compromised

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[2023-09-11 23:37:42]
User431096 - Posts: 12
Over the past few weeks, I have frequently been warned that a secondary instance was trying to log in (but rejected).
I have just changed my account password and hopefully this will not happen again.
However, are there any documentation on how passwords are encrypted, transmitted and stored on the SC servers?
I assume that passwords are never transmitted in plain text. I just want a better understanding of the communication protocol between the SC server and my computer, and hopefully identify potential hackers' attack points.
[2023-09-12 10:11:20]
Sierra_Chart Engineering - Posts: 17190
We know what message you are referring to and it just means that Sierra Chart has connected to a secondary instance for the trading evaluator service:
I have frequently been warned that a secondary instance was trying to log in (but rejected).

This is not a security issue and can happen sometimes. Sierra Chart will then connect back to the main server. You can safely ignore this.

No:


However, are there any documentation on how passwords are encrypted, transmitted and stored on the SC servers?
Passwords are one-way encrypted and they do not exist on our servers and they are not stored in a format which can be read. And when a password is transmitted, in limited cases, it is encrypted.
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