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#37008 false login report

Posted in ‘Admin Tools for Joomla! 4 & 5’
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Environment Information

Joomla! version
4.1.2
PHP version
8.0
Admin Tools version
7.1.5

Latest post by nicholas on Monday, 25 April 2022 03:15 CDT

eduwriter

I receive these messages from admin  tools that indicate a user has logged on with admin privileges and then logs out at times when I am not on the system.,  I looked on the site's control panel and cannot find the login.  I also asked the hosting company to check the logins but they cannot find the login activity? Do I have something set wrong?'

(I removed the website name from the output)

What is strange is that the messages have the same transaction id. When I compare the user action log with the timestamps, I find they are legitimate logins with different and separate transaction IDs for which I did not receive a notification

I am a little concerned because last week someone from a Russian IP address showed up on the user action log as logging out as administrator, but never logging in.  When I looked it up the information indicated it was a spamming site so I blocked the IP.  I cannot figure out how they logged in?

I am not using the standard Administrator username or the default administrator address, and have  Joomla's 2FA enabled.

Is this something I need to be concerned about?

 

 

Admin Tool Messages:

12:29    Transaction ID 754

Latest User Actions ------ This is the latest action performed by a user on your website. Action | Date | Extension | Name User <a href='https://.com/administrator/index.php?option=com_users&task=user.edit&id=789'>ad@in-iStrat=Ad#or</a> installed the file file_fef | 2022-04-24 04:29:16 UTC | Installer | Administrator

 

12:33    Transaction ID 755

Latest User Actions
------
This is the latest action performed by a user on your website.

Action | Date | Extension | Name
 User <a href='https://.com/administrator/index.php?option=com_users&task=user.edit&id=789'>ad@in-iStrat=Ad#or</a> logged out from admin | 2022-04-24 04:33:26 UTC | Users | Administrator

12:51 Transaction ID 756
Latest User Actions ------ This is the latest action performed by a user on your website. Action | Date | Extension | Name User <a href='https://www.com/administrator/index.php?option=com_users&task=user.edit&id=789'>ad@in-iStrat=Ad#or</a> logged in
to admin | 2022-04-24 17:20:33 UTC | Users | Administrator


12:59 Transaction ID 754
Latest User Actions ------ This is the latest action performed by a user on your website. Action | Date | Extension | Name User <a href='https://www.com/administrator/index.php?option=com_users&task=user.edit&id=789'>ad@in-iStrat=Ad#or</a> logged out from admin | 2022-04-24 04:59:39 UTC | Users | Administrator

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager

The Joomla User Actions Log IS NOT part of Admin Tools. This is Joomla itself.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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