Hacked, ,anyone else lately

[Sevv]

Well I came home this morning to someone looting my account, got kinda lucky by logging into interrupt them from fully stripping my account. Cleared off all mules and most of my main including all my dynamis currency. I haven't downloaded anything I didn't know if there was a round 2 of a ffxiah/somepage.

Won't be responding to this thread for awhile since ill be reformating my laptop, thank god for my ps2 to change the p/w.

[cadoxangelus]

Re: Hacked, ,anyone else lately

Luckily i play on the ps2 so i dont have to worry about that. Im sorry about what happened. Best of luck and getting your things back. ; ;

[Alshandra]

Re: Hacked, ,anyone else lately

I'm sorry lovey, let me know when you're ready for some help to rebuild. xx

[Feba]

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i dont have to worry about that.

Step one in how to leave holes in your security.

[Neomage]

Re: Hacked, ,anyone else lately

Yep, the virus hit again just last Wednesday.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

Re: Hacked, ,anyone else lately

Step one in how to leave holes in your security.

With PS2/3 and 360 users, the only real way to get "hacked" is to use similar passwords on websites or, the more common mistake of sharing passwords with in-game "friends" over forums or other means of communication.

PC users have those two ways and then all the spyware and keyloggers you can get on your system. You can't get this stuff on a system that has no real web-browsing capability, but PCs do. Some people still insist on using third-party windower for all the nifty plug-ins and that's one great way to become a target, repeating your passwords on FFXI sites that have been easily comprimised before is another possibility. The spyware is where things really get nefarious and occasionally difficult to target, as a spyware program wont look for things its not told to look for.

Anyway, Sevv, I'm sorry to hear this happened to you. This is the second case I've hear this week, earlier this week an LBR member got hit too, but it sounded far more malicious than just cleaning out currency and gil. They tossed lots of endgame R/E after they took the gil x.x

People who hack accounts or do this stuff to make a person's in-game experience miserable are the people I hate the most in MMOs. They get wrapped up in thier little "justice" fantasies (or are just RMT or a jerk out of gil) and ruin the game for other people.

[little ninja]

Re: Hacked, ,anyone else lately

Step one in how to leave holes in your security.

I'm curious what your solution is.

[DakAttack]

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I'm curious what your solution is.

I think the point is not assuming you're completely safe and letting your guard down.

[eticket109]

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sucks Sev ><

One of my ls mates got hacked about 2 weeks ago. He should be getting the account back from SE this week sometime. He was checking the sales on FFXIAH and it looks like everything of worth was sold off his account by a new account that didn't have a history before the day he got hacked.

[little ninja]

Re: Hacked, ,anyone else lately

I think the point is not assuming you're completely safe and letting your guard down.

The only way your completely safe is if you play on a console, never share your info and never surf the FFXI websites. Otherwise you are always at a high risk. Sure you can take precautions, no script and ad block on FF. up to date on your computers protection. You can even have a password that uses everything on the board. But even then that doesn't seem like its enough anymore.

[Feba]

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The only way your completely safe is if you play on a console, never share your info and never surf the FFXI websites. Otherwise you are always at a high risk.

False. You can never be completely safe.

The closest you can get is to consider every way you think that someone can get access to your password, and stop it.

[DakAttack]

Re: Hacked, ,anyone else lately

Recently my bank has installed a new method of inputting our PINs by pressing buttons instead of typing them out. I've had ideas of something similar in the past as an added safeguard, but it involved repeating patterns of colors, sounds, and flashing lights.

I don't think it's possible to accurately clicklog yet.

In WoW they actually require you to type the word delete in a box when throwing out certain pieces of unique equipment. I think it would be nice if there were a keyword we could set for throwing out Rare/Ex pieces of equipment.

[WovenDarkness]

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Sorry to hear that you fell victim Sevv. ><

[Murphie]

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I wouldn't want to recover from having my sad and sorry gear and items being lost, much less what Sevv has. Geez.

[Feenicks]

Re: Hacked, ,anyone else lately

Sorry to hear this but thanks for inspiring me to change my password.