Got Hacked Thread

Why on Earth/Vana'diel/Azeroth would you necro bump this for no bloody reason?

That fact needed to be stated. Hey, you're contributing to the bump. Thanks.

I got hacked in early May, got my account back in early June, got hacked again a few weeks later and just said F*@K it and decided to quit for good.

logic is fine and advice is soo but the argument is not entirely true.
Most password are stored hashed with a salt so the password is not retrievable even with physical access to the drive it stored on.

if any electronic services stores your password so any program and/or person can read it you should not be using the services, its bad data security

most of the comments were tl;dnr imo, but I'm just curious does anyone even know how majority of these "hacks" are taking place?

When I hear the word "hack" I immediately think of a program used (trojan, keylogger, etc) used to STEAL a person's information without them knowing about it, and then taking their account from them. I do not consider being a noob and giving your login/pw away to a site/imposter as a legitimate description for the term "hacked".

But regardless, I would be interested to find out how the majority of these ppls accts were hacked. Just like any Tom and Jerry game, you must know your enemy and how they will strike in order to prevent a future assault...or you can be like that douchebag lolPC Joshua from the movie WarGames and be all "the only way to win...is not to play" (which ironically is the pigeonhole the hackees are put into >.<) *supadupa wisdom*

According to "King of RMT" video that was in a post last Monday most hacks occur b/c people use the same password for their login to sites like this one as they use for their character login. The hackers then hack the game related websites and steal your password from them.

Note to hackers out there: My password was the same until I watched that video but it is no longer so don't even try it, thanks you RMT king.

When AOL was born, they did spoke about how unwise "above statement" I'm very surprise that some players need it to watch "King of RMT' Video to find this out now....

Sooooo~ It's there are no real hacks going on...got it.

Thanks for the info. ^_^

Happy hacking...er...hunting.

At this point, there wouldn't be much point in hacking anyone's FFXI account other than to piss him off/make him quit.

Once upon a time, Minidragon's account was something people could envy, not anymore. And even then, there wasn't an active hacking campaign.
What was said above is the most logical answer, people need to be smarter when it comes to passwords.

The people who posted on his wall envy him....

If I was previously hacked (they stole one of my login passwords and address and used to change my other password) and reformatted my hard drive and use a antivirus, can that hacker still hack my account? I know that they hacked my account from me clicking on a website, but I haven't done anything of that sort since I reformatted my computer and reinstalled the game.

NO they cant but yes they can at the sometime.It depends on what they used to ask u i have read things online saying if u get a rootkit bug even after removing it and formatting u cant say your 100% safe on that computer any more.do u know what class of bug was used to steal your info.

Change your password on your se account to something long even if they use a program or there brain to find your password the longer it is the harder,or i should say it like this the longer the password the longer it will take them.Giving u more time to find there bug and remove it before to much data is stole.

Then there is account stealing by using your email to send a password reset and do it like that.When this happens the only way u can get your account back with out asking for help from the company is getting on your email and sending a new reset email before they change the email on the account.Then at that time make a good and long password on your email.Heck it would not hurt to not use the same email again for safety.But yes a protection program is a great idea even if u never go online with said computer.

This line makes me think it was a key logger meaning every thing u typed when the bug was on your system was ether sent or stored to and by the hacker.

I believe it was a keylogger. I changed my passwords multiple times since then. I just had a thought when updating my pc when I physically typed in one for one of the passwords instead of the built-in keyboard feature.

It just makes me worried that they have my address and can steal it again just by having SE resetting for them. If I get hacked again, SE isn't going to rollback my account again even if I have a security token.

SE is very harsh about resetting these days, they won't get it reset without at least CD keys, and I've heard of quite a few cases where even that doesn't work and you need to mail in the notary form.

I wouldn't be worried about it, just be more careful with your browsing habits.

Can I ask a true honest question?

What kind of websites steal passwords from Final Fantasy XI? I mean, I could only think of botting/gil buying sites that wants to be malicious to players.

I honestly dont think any regular porn site or whatever would wanna steal final fantasy xi passwords.

I got hacked through a "video" site claiming a guy killed ADL's frequently and were selling Umbra Marrows. He/she sent the info through FFXIAH inbox based on players wanting Umbral Marrows. However, I copied and pasted the URL into my web browser. This is where the anitvirus didn't pick up or couldn't highlight the web info. Lesson is never copy and paste url's. I just wished the FFXIAH staff had sent a system wide warning message saying that it was a virus. Also if it's too good to be true, then it's probably a scam.

Most of these things are embedded in ads, and the viruses would not be targeted toward a single mmo. If they pay $50 a month(admittedly, i don't know anything about ad costs on porn sites) to get their ad on some scummy 3rd-rate porn site, they only need to get one decent mmo account of any kind to make profit.

One desktop (HP Omni 27Q series) for my online games, music,school projects and surf the web.

(2007 HP desktop)2nd one; Surf porn, download music, videos and porn , pictures I download from e-mails etc etc.

These 2 have Norton, but they serve their purpose... Been doing this technique since AOL was born...

Not hard at all to keep ***separate. Just saying.


Stored user Name & stored password is beneficial, Instead typing ***on KB.

Well this is my idea of how it works.Here example u go to a site for a cheat code or cheat download link the site it self seems clean.But when u click a download link or something on there site then your system freaks out.U most likely got a bad bug and hidden in the bug is the key logger that will steal your info.Then there is sites that say if u end your user name and password that u can get cheat codes or people can log on to your account to do the work for u.

Again that is fake it installs a bug on the computer your using and can even install a bug on the computer u made the account on.Do not ask me how installing a bug on a computer it has no clue about can happen i just know it can do not ask how i know please.

also to note when i said hidden in the bug it can also be hidden in what u download from that site as well.

Simply clicking on a something can download something on to your PC without you knowing or authorizing. You don't have to physically download a file to have a bug attached to it.

yes i know i just used the example i did.Sorry i should i pointed that out.

No worries. I was just pointing it out because I didn't know about it till these recent years.

Run noscript; block infections before they hit you. Sorry you got hacked.

What is noscript?

I cant belive i forgot about this i never use it is why i think it sliped my mind i use adblock +.

http://noscript.net/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/

It lets u pick what programs run in the background on the site u go too.I think that is right can someone correct me if i am wrong please.

Wait after u got hacked in may did u do any thing to check that there was no bug on your system.

Hmmmmmm


So logged in today to see my character was deleted, along with my mule (mule's on a separate PlayOnline and SE account). I recently changed my password for both accounts, so I have no idea how anyone would have found it.

I logged into my SE account, says my content IDs are active, but they say Character instead of Gimp or Jic... which makes it look like a deleted character. I really have no idea what the hell's going on, I'm scanning my computer as I type this, but I doubt there's anything on it.

Doesn't even seem typical of getting hacked, but I could be wrong... SE support and ***'s not open until tomorrow... so just wondering if it could be that I did get hacked or I'm just HELP I AM TRAPPED IN 2006 PLEASE SEND A TIME MACHINE.

Malwarebytes just found something called Stolen.Data, so I take it that's it... I also take it I'm not really safe to play on this computer anymore, even if I do end up getting the account back?

Good luk getting it back. A buddy of mine had his account hacked and his main char. deleted from the account. Pretty close to the same senario, too. He changed his password then a few days later woke up to a deleted char.

this is scary. Is there any possible way to prevent accounts being safe?