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The recent wave of compromised accounts that are suspected to originate from compromised email accounts has brought up the question how to deal with them without potentially upsetting users that might return.

Right now there seem to be several options to handle compromised accounts:
  1. Ban the account
    Does stop spam activity, but might upset some human users
  2. Set security lock to "User must change password"
    Might work a bit, but as bots know the password they can easily change it...

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