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#1 2007-09-30 11:36 pm
- Some1
- The flying moleman.

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Well I've been hacked
And needless to say I'm very pissed off.
Very very pissed off.
I've always been very careful with what I download a program or UI mod.
More details to come on my pissed off ness when i'm less pissed off.
The smurfer vendored everything he could, on all my alts, then proceeded to waste as many of my honor, holy dust, and arena points as he could.
I'm thinking "gold farmer" but it seems more like someone trying to smurf with my account.
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#2 2007-10-01 10:07 am
- christophillis
- The Metal Crusade Will Conquer All! .\m/

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#3 2007-10-01 1:29 pm
- NightCougar_37
- For Gallia!!

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Re: Well I've been hacked
Yeah Blizz is known to help a lot on these.
Only thing you can really do is to just avoid a lot of mods and run mostly stock. Myself I only use CT, Bossmods, and KTM...then maybe SW stats. Still a chance a keylogger can get through but at least avoiding some of the other tons of mods helps that.
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#4 2007-10-01 2:06 pm
- LLEVIATHANN
- Itch you can't scratch

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Re: Well I've been hacked

Sorry but I had too.
Let us be thankful for the fools; but for them the rest of us could not succeed. - Mark Twain
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#5 2007-10-01 3:46 pm
- Some1
- The flying moleman.

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Re: Well I've been hacked
Thanks, that brought a smile to my face.
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#6 2007-10-01 7:38 pm
- NAG
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Re: Well I've been hacked
Honestly I think they must be brute forcing these passwords sometimes due to so many people falling victim even when they are careful.
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#7 2007-10-02 10:27 am
- Some1
- The flying moleman.

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Re: Well I've been hacked
Well, after scanning my computer with Ad-aware, SpyBot S&D, Norton AV, AVG, and PC-Cillin, the keylogger did turn up.
In my mother's account.
Stupid woman.
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#8 2007-10-02 12:13 pm
- LLEVIATHANN
- Itch you can't scratch

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Re: Well I've been hacked
Awe man bummer. It's time you and mom have 'that' talk. 
Let us be thankful for the fools; but for them the rest of us could not succeed. - Mark Twain
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#9 2007-10-02 12:37 pm
- Some1
- The flying moleman.

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Re: Well I've been hacked
No more admin privileges for her account.
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#10 2007-10-02 5:00 pm
- MacAddict4Life
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Re: Well I've been hacked
Wait, are you on a PC, or do I need to be WAY more careful with add-ons?
http://www.ernestphillips.com/
"Of all the habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indespensible supports." -George Washington
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#11 2007-10-02 7:24 pm
- Some1
- The flying moleman.

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Re: Well I've been hacked
I'm on a PC,
And I don't think UI mods can sniff out your password, because they usually load after you log-in.
It's people who use installers to install UI mods who may be adding keyloggers at the same time.
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#12 2007-10-02 8:14 pm
- LLEVIATHANN
- Itch you can't scratch

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Re: Well I've been hacked
MacAddict4Life wrote:
Wait, are you on a PC, or do I need to be WAY more careful with add-ons?
Also as Some1 found out it could come from other accounts/users on that machine. In Windows user accounts are not kept in their own space. Mis-steps by one user can affect the entire machine.
Let us be thankful for the fools; but for them the rest of us could not succeed. - Mark Twain
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#13 2007-10-03 12:43 pm
- LLEVIATHANN
- Itch you can't scratch

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Re: Well I've been hacked
Might bring some warm fuzzys back.
Link
September 24, 2007 (Computerworld) -- The 25-year-old programmer who unleashed the Panda worm almost a year ago in China was sentenced today to four years in prison, a news service reported from Beijing.
Li Jun, arrested in February and charged last month with making approximately $13,000 selling the worm -- dubbed both "Fujacks" and "Panda Burning Joss Sticks" -- was given a four-year jail term by a court in Xiantao, China. Three other men -- all in their 20s, according to the Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA) wire service -- were sentenced to between one year and two and a half years for their part in spreading the worm.
----Further down----
Panda's main purpose was to steal online game usernames and passwords, another fact that Cluley noted today. "[We] have noted that a surprising proportion of malware written in China is designed to steal credentials from players of MMORPGs (Massively Multi-player Online Role-Playing Games)," he said. "This stolen information provides a revenue stream for unscrupulous hackers who will sell the information on to the highest bidder."
Let us be thankful for the fools; but for them the rest of us could not succeed. - Mark Twain
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#14 2007-10-03 4:37 pm
- Some1
- The flying moleman.

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Re: Well I've been hacked
Well I've been restored (Under 72 hours, pretty impressive). However all of the honor that was spent by the 'hacker' on random, smurf items, remains wasted. And the GM forgot to restore my bank alt, so I still need to wait on that.
I'm also still short around 700 gold.
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#15 2007-10-03 7:04 pm
- MacAddict4Life
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Re: Well I've been hacked
Follow up, you should be able to get everything back, ne?
http://www.ernestphillips.com/
"Of all the habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indespensible supports." -George Washington
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#16 2007-10-04 6:25 am
- NightCougar_37
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#17 2007-10-04 4:41 pm
- Some1
- The flying moleman.

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Re: Well I've been hacked
I want my honor back, is what I want.
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#18 2007-10-05 12:45 am
- NightCougar_37
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Re: Well I've been hacked
I'd give you mine if I could. Course I don't got much. I quit PVP long ago. Got tired of dealing with other players.
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#19 2007-10-05 2:53 am
- Bat
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Re: Well I've been hacked
NightCougar_37 wrote:
I'd give you mine if I could. Course I don't got much. I quit PVP long ago. Got tired of dealing with other players.
I knew it. Your new title: "Don't got much honor." 
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion - George Bernard Shaw
"Fire up a colortini, sit back, relax, and watch the pictures, now, as they fly through the air."
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#20 2007-10-05 8:47 am
- christophillis
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#21 2007-10-05 1:50 pm
- Some1
- The flying moleman.

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Re: Well I've been hacked
Bat wrote:
NightCougar_37 wrote:
I'd give you mine if I could. Course I don't got much. I quit PVP long ago. Got tired of dealing with other players.
I knew it. Your new title: "Don't got much honor."
I don't get it.
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#22 2007-10-09 10:12 am
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Re: Well I've been hacked
heh I Bet I have less honor then him
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#23 2007-10-12 1:15 pm
- Sputnickey
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Re: Well I've been hacked
christophillis wrote:
Call Blizz, they've helped everyone I know who'd gotten hacked.
In my years of playing I've known a pretty fair number of people who've sold their accounts (obviously against TOS as everyone knows and loves to remind others of). The funny thing is, an equally fair percentage of those people who called Blizzard and reported their accounts as being hacked got them restored. So basically they got the 500 bucks or whatever for the account PLUS the account itself.... I'm not at all advocating this but I find it kind of amazing that people are that unscrupulous 
...but hey, what do I know
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#24 2007-10-13 11:34 pm
- christophillis
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Re: Well I've been hacked
You can sell your account. You just have to sell the "game" ie discs manual all of it together. The character is the property of Blizzard so you can't sell that.
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#25 2007-10-14 5:26 pm
- Warin
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Re: Well I've been hacked
Sputnickey wrote:
christophillis wrote:
Call Blizz, they've helped everyone I know who'd gotten hacked.
In my years of playing I've known a pretty fair number of people who've sold their accounts (obviously against TOS as everyone knows and loves to remind others of). The funny thing is, an equally fair percentage of those people who called Blizzard and reported their accounts as being hacked got them restored. So basically they got the 500 bucks or whatever for the account PLUS the account itself.... I'm not at all advocating this but I find it kind of amazing that people are that unscrupulous
A classmate and I were discussing WoW. He claimed ot have done just that: Sold his account for 400 dollars US, and a few weeks later, in a fit of angst,... and wanting to play his old character, he called Blizzard, said "ZOMG! My account has been hacked" and got it back.
I used to like this guy. I dont anymore. When I asked him about it, he said "meah, whats the other person going to do... report me? Blizzard will just ignore him"
What a muppet.
From what I can tell, either way, you're screwed. Bad people are punished by society's laws, and good people are punished by Murphy's Law.
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