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With all the warnings out there about what NOT to do, how are players still getting hacked? And why do people get upset when someone claims to be hacked?

- They give away account information
- They are stupid
- They use 3th party programs

They use the same email for everything.
They use the same password for everything.
They use MySpace.

Colb wrote:They use the same email for everything.
They use the same password for everything.
They use MySpace.

These ones go under xzaz's #2

I heard it's some sort of ritual where a group of nerds dance like the mushrooms in Disney's fantasia, then throw mash potatoe at the target, rounding up with a vicious half hour of prodding them with half cooked sausages.

bad luck.

They give out account info to friends.
In turn, their friend gives out that account info to another friend.
Wow, surprise, you've been hacked!

I'd have to guess 1/2 the 'hacks' happen from friends of the victim that know the victim's login info, or friends of the victim's friend that have been conveniently provided with that login info. Another 1/2 from using 3rd party software/getting keylogged.

There is no such thing as a 'random hack' - that's total b.s.

Edit: 50% gave out info to friend
49% keylogged/virus/other programs
1% bruteforce attack - guess it theoretically possible...not very probable, but def. possible

Contrary to common misconception, even legits that never downloaded keyloggers, visited websites, and give out info can and do get hacked.

keylogger is the most common way of some1 getting hacked

E40 wrote:With all the warnings out there about what NOT to do, how are players still getting hacked? And why do people get upset when someone claims to be hacked?

Some people are just natural born suckers. They were born to be taken advantage of. :p

I know a guy who got hacked (lvl 56) by giving his info out....remade his new account and was STILL giving his info out to his online "friends". You can't do anything to help that kind of stupidity.

They use the official forums and give out thier mail.

I'll give you one hint and this is how many people get hack by people. Don't don't give out any personal information in any vent or teamspeak servers. All that info can be easily used to get your account information. Don't say you bought gold or got tons of rare stuff, you're a primary target.

I said enough.

I suppose there just friken stupid people with no brains that use myspace and use other forums that thewy think are official.
The give out there info to family members.

justaskphil wrote:They give out account info to friends.
In turn, their friend gives out that account info to another friend.
Wow, surprise, you've been hacked!

I'd have to guess 1/2 the 'hacks' happen from friends of the victim that know the victim's login info, or friends of the victim's friend that have been conveniently provided with that login info. Another 1/2 from using 3rd party software/getting keylogged.

There is no such thing as a 'random hack' - that's total b.s.

2 of my friends were brute forced by NW (adid4s and Merculus), so no its not just keylogging and giving out passwords. All thats needed is some basic knowledge of scripting, a screen name, and some common sense. It's easier than you think to be "hacked"...

And before someone goes off saying that im just throwing accusations, in both instances they came up to us with the accounts in one of their guilds taking responsibility then gloated about it.

bruteforcing takes time though.. a lot of time if your password is alphanumeric. i change my password every 12 hours..

does any1 know if logitech's G15 macro manager is kinda safe? i use macros to log in, but i dont feel like giving out my account information by any programm exploit.

bad idea. mishit a key and your login info is spread across hotan :S

[SK]Paddo wrote:bruteforcing takes time though.. a lot of time if your password is alphanumeric. i change my password every 12 hours..

does any1 know if logitech's G15 macro manager is kinda safe? i use macros to log in, but i dont feel like giving out my account information by any programm exploit.

+1...for a minimum 12 character password (a-z, 0-9) it would take up to 4,738,381,338,321,616,896 attempts (that's 4.7 billion billion attempts on your account). Still will take an awful long time to bruteforce that, unless you're sitting on a freaking Cray supercomputer or can measure your system performance in teraflops.

wait...don't dare answer that one

:::scurrying off to change pw:::

-1 on the G15 macro too.... yucky, don't use it. Don't be lazy, hand grinding is the bomb

edit: spelling

[SK]Paddo wrote:bruteforcing takes time though.. a lot of time if your password is alphanumeric. i change my password every 12 hours..

does any1 know if logitech's G15 macro manager is kinda safe? i use macros to log in, but i dont feel like giving out my account information by any programm exploit.

every 12 hours? OCD?

Why is Myspace a reason, how is that SRO related? Just for the personal info? I use myspace but I also use different emails and mixed numbers\letters passwords for everything too, any personal info on myspace wouldnt be much use with secret answers cuz the answers are all mixed characters as well lol

1. Keyloggers/Botnets
2. Social Engineering
3. People give out their accounts to people who they "trust".

1.being retarded and using account email for anything else.
2.giving ppl username and pw that say you can trust them.
3.Using same ID and PW for a bunch of stuff


Don't use the same username here on forums that you use for your ID.