Learned the hard way that my router's admin page was wide open

Last Tuesday I was checking my home network and noticed some weird traffic in my firewall logs. Turns out I left the default admin password on my router for 3 years without thinking about it. Someone had been poking around trying to get in, but my ISP's basic protection blocked them. I changed it to a random 20-character password and turned off remote access right away. Has anyone else found scary stuff in their logs after ignoring their router settings for too long?

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the_leo19h ago

My neighbor's Ring doorbell had the same problem for two years before he noticed.

jordangibson16h ago

Three years on default is brave, @the_leo's neighbor story made me realize I was just as dumb about my own router.