Hacked, ,anyone else lately

[Sevv]

Re: Hacked, ,anyone else lately

Ya me alsha and crinan moving over

[Alshandra]

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I feel like we are having the same conversation in two threads ._.

[Sevv]

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I feel like we are having the same conversation in two threads ._.

We are.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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Just got word of the third attack I've heard in a week, FFXIAH profile was deleted close to the time of the attack. This was another malicious attack, too. RNG Relic, Ridill, Vali's Bow, Yoichi Relic bow all tossed.

FFXIAH, more and more, is getting linked to this mess. Particulary with people who have made profiles there.

[Murphie]

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Which sucks, because it's a really useful site. But not useful enough to risk losing my gear and gil over.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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Which sucks, because it's a really useful site. But not useful enough to risk losing my gear and gil over.

Well, its always been a concern of mine that the site's server's tap directly into the game's search functions, which is linked to the jeuno AH in game, which all players access eventually.

Really though, it sounds like one of the Taj-like drama crusades, people getting hacked, getting robbed of all thier accomplishments all for personal griviences or suspicions held against a certain player (which may not even be true).

But what concerns me most of all is if FFXIAH is also becoming a liability to players who don't even use it. I'm unsure of how the game's search function works, but its most certainly tied to POL and if FFXIAH is broadcasting that info somehow, no one is really safe. If that proves to be the case, FFXIAH's owners need to swallow thier pride and shut the site down.

[Zempten]

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Well, this happened today.

I was in Salvage and all of a sudden I got the "You got disconnected from another terminal" message.

I have no idea how it happened though. I have AVG running daily. I don't bother going to sites like ffxiah.com. The only ffxi sites I've been going to for the last year or so is the official one at playonline.com, this one, FFXIclopedia, ffxi-atlas, my dyanmis LS fourms, my main LS fourms, and BG.

This has gotten me worried. I took some guys advice here and made a bunch of random letters/number password, but what's to say this won't happen again. How much can I shield myself from this? Is there anything else other then AVG?

*sigh*

I'm very worried.

[Sevv]

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Well, this happened today.

I was in Salvage and all of a sudden I got the "You got disconnected from another terminal" message.

I have no idea how it happened though. I have AVG running daily. I don't bother going to sites like ffxiah.com. The only ffxi sites I've been going to for the last year or so is the official one at playonline.com, this one, FFXIclopedia, ffxi-atlas, my dyanmis LS fourms, my main LS fourms, and BG.

This has gotten me worried. I took some guys advice here and made a bunch of random letters/number password, but what's to say this won't happen again. How much can I shield myself from this? Is there anything else other then AVG?

*sigh*

I'm very worried.

You should reformat if you are on the computer.

[eticket109]

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Well, this happened today.

I was in Salvage and all of a sudden I got the "You got disconnected from another terminal" message.

I have no idea how it happened though. I have AVG running daily. I don't bother going to sites like ffxiah.com. The only ffxi sites I've been going to for the last year or so is the official one at playonline.com, this one, FFXIclopedia, ffxi-atlas, my dyanmis LS fourms, my main LS fourms, and BG.

This has gotten me worried. I took some guys advice here and made a bunch of random letters/number password, but what's to say this won't happen again. How much can I shield myself from this? Is there anything else other then AVG?

*sigh*

I'm very worried.

Keep half the password stored. Type in the other half when you log in. That way even if you get keylogged or there's some trojan pulling your saved password, they'll probably only have half of it.

[Neomage]

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Huh... That actually sounds like it might work E... Seems sensible.

NINJA-EDIT: This just caught my attention...

Well, this happened today.

I was in Salvage and all of a sudden I got the "You got disconnected from another terminal" message.

I have no idea how it happened though. I have AVG running daily. I don't bother going to sites like ffxiah.com. The only ffxi sites I've been going to for the last year or so is the official one at playonline.com, this one, FFXIclopedia, ffxi-atlas, my dyanmis LS fourms, my main LS fourms, and BG.

This has gotten me worried. I took some guys advice here and made a bunch of random letters/number password, but what's to say this won't happen again. How much can I shield myself from this? Is there anything else other then AVG?

*sigh*

I'm very worried.

Hasn't there been some rumors going about how this site is infected also? Do you have scripts/activex disabled? AVG wouldn't catch something like that...

[Feba]

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I'm unsure of how the game's search function works, but its most certainly tied to POL and if FFXIAH is broadcasting that info somehow, no one is really safe. If that proves to be the case, FFXIAH's owners need to swallow thier pride and shut the site down.

ugh. no.

FFXIAH scans the AH servers. It doesn't require personal info to work.

If FFXIAH somehow found a way to get the server to give them account information:

A- They would have no reason to 'broadcast' it, it's not part of their database.
B- Anyone hacking FFXIAH could just implement it themselves
C- It's a HUGE GAPING FLAW in SE's security.

So no, that's not the case at all.

It's only a liability to people who go there without their computer being secured against viruses and other crapware, and POSSIBLY people that have put their POL account info on the site in some way (such as through PM). If you get hacked because of FFXIAH, and you don't use it, that simply wasn't how you were attacked.

[Mhurron]

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C- It's a HUGE GAPING FLAW in SE's security.

This depends on exactly how they get their information, and unfortunately they're not very forthcoming in providing that information. There is no secret information on FFXIAH, everything there is available to legitimate users, so a security breach of SE's systems or procedures would not be required.

FFXIAH is only liked to your account if you want it to be, you have to go out of your way to do it.

[Phanex]

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If it is a key logger, try useing the Microsoft On-Screen Keyboard, under accessiblity. I don't know much about how Key Loggers work, but they can't record your keystrokes from the keyboard if your using ur Mouse to punch a letter on the program. What you guys think? WIll that help?

[Feba]

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This depends on exactly how they get their information

I don't really see how any method that would allow someone to simply pull account information off SE's server wouldn't be a huge flaw.

[Mhurron]

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I don't really see how any method that would allow someone to simply pull account information off SE's server wouldn't be a huge flaw.

They don't simply pull account information from SE's servers.