One other possible scenario, likely you've got hit by the 2020 bug and your user account got deleted as part of the time based user purge in
your maintenance. This has happened to me (not as aggressive) in early
Jan 2020 when the bug was first reported.

Unless you have upgraded to A44, you must disable everything related to purging based on days/date.

That may be what happened. I'm still on A43. I'll go ahead & work on that upgrade!

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A43 2019/03/03 (Windows/32)
* Origin: Dave's BBS (21:1/140)

Good possibility but would that explain the 3 bogus accounts? Mind you, I often get ppl logging in from telnetbbsguide creating gibberish accounts.

Maybe the accounts got deleted with the purge and the bogus accounts came in afterwards. They were unvalidated accounts and occasionally I do get folks register with bogus information. Does seem conincidental that there would be three though usually I don't get more than one or two a month

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A43 2019/03/03 (Windows/32)
* Origin: Dave's BBS (21:1/140)