Re: Someone must really have a grudge:
wow... I checked for this thread earlier but didn't see anything. I hinted at all this in the peeves thread but really didn't want to bring the drama here.
Sev got most of it right. Somehow Taj got into the admin's account for the forums and dumped a backup of the forums onto his pc. He proceeded to play with it until he got into the pm logs. At that point he found any Ultima member that used the pm system to send their info to someone and proceeded to log in to POL and move them to Leviathan.
The numbers are a bit off. 2 got moved to Hades. One of which was a mule account with 13 chars. That account was cleaned out completely. Everything appears to have been NPCed. We're not sure on the status of the second account that got moved there.
Of the ones that got moved to Leviathan, we have recovered all of the info. However, one character was deleted. It appears there may have been a mule created afterwards so recovery may not be possible.
Ironically, I just joined the ls this week so I never expected to really get involved in this. However, when Taj came clean he asked that people contact him if they were still missing account access. I was concerned about one account because the person using it has been very sick and no one has heard from him in a while and I posted Taj could pm me the info if he wanted. He proceeded to do so and also gave me his info, stating he didn't care what I did to it as long as I took pics to 'keep up the lulz'.
I got into his account and proceeded to gather everyone I could and handed back what was there. I'd say ~80% of the gear and ~50% of the gil was recovered. As far as we can tell, no r/e gear was dropped from any accounts except the two on Hades. Once the gear was redistributed I got off his account. For the record all the POL info had been changed by that point and it all appears to be fake.
The transferred characters are probably stuck on Leviathan since we all know how wonderful SE customer service is.
wow... I checked for this thread earlier but didn't see anything. I hinted at all this in the peeves thread but really didn't want to bring the drama here.
Sev got most of it right. Somehow Taj got into the admin's account for the forums and dumped a backup of the forums onto his pc. He proceeded to play with it until he got into the pm logs. At that point he found any Ultima member that used the pm system to send their info to someone and proceeded to log in to POL and move them to Leviathan.
The numbers are a bit off. 2 got moved to Hades. One of which was a mule account with 13 chars. That account was cleaned out completely. Everything appears to have been NPCed. We're not sure on the status of the second account that got moved there.
Of the ones that got moved to Leviathan, we have recovered all of the info. However, one character was deleted. It appears there may have been a mule created afterwards so recovery may not be possible.
Ironically, I just joined the ls this week so I never expected to really get involved in this. However, when Taj came clean he asked that people contact him if they were still missing account access. I was concerned about one account because the person using it has been very sick and no one has heard from him in a while and I posted Taj could pm me the info if he wanted. He proceeded to do so and also gave me his info, stating he didn't care what I did to it as long as I took pics to 'keep up the lulz'.
I got into his account and proceeded to gather everyone I could and handed back what was there. I'd say ~80% of the gear and ~50% of the gil was recovered. As far as we can tell, no r/e gear was dropped from any accounts except the two on Hades. Once the gear was redistributed I got off his account. For the record all the POL info had been changed by that point and it all appears to be fake.
The transferred characters are probably stuck on Leviathan since we all know how wonderful SE customer service is.
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