Active screen corner + incorrect password results in hibernation, help!

I've got the right top (active) screen corner set to sleep my display.
And only recently noticed that, if after using that i try to move mouse or press any key it would ask me for password, which is OK, but the problem is that if after entering incorrect password 3 times (happens , it would hibernate my mac for some reason.
I am not observing the same behavior if I just let the system unattended and screen saver kicks in, and then screen goes blank, or even if I lock the screen directly from keychain access.
In both these scenarios my system is not being hibernated if I made a typo 3 times in my password, so it only happens while using active screen corner.
Any idea how to get around this annoyance?

Sorry,sorry,sorry,folks.
Problem solved.I was just moving my cursor to the corner area of the screen.You have to go virtually off the screen corner to activate this.
Time for a coffee.

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