Curse

Don Zardeone · Apr 21, 2006, 06:55 AM // 06:55

Could you PM me the name of his chars?
A few days ago some guy in droks was giving away a shitload of items (including his armour) and gold.

I tried getting as much as I could to give it back to the guy who got "hacked" but he never logged on again.

The guy who "hacked" the owner of the account did it to piss the owner off.

The account was "hacked" because the owner wrote down hiw pw in hi snotebook and this notebook was found/stolen.

The "hacker" never played GW before.......

I use "" arounf hacker and hacks and hacked because nobody really got hacked.

Maybe your cousin is the same guy I'm talking about which means I still have his crap.
If it's not then eh... meh

edit: I'm too lazy to fix the typos

Viruzzz · Apr 21, 2006, 08:44 AM // 08:44

why is it allways a "cousin" or a "friend" or a "brother/sister" ?

edit: to the poster above me. you realise that sounds extremely unlikely that it is the same guy?

Don Zardeone · Apr 21, 2006, 08:51 AM // 08:51

Yeah but I need to find the guy because his junk is cluttering my storage space.

1 storage slot is worth 22k to me...

Seeing how the OP's cousin supposedly never downloaded any crap and could have only been hacked by insiders, there could be a chance that it is the same guy.
The thief told me he got the password on the victim's birthdayparty by searching through his personal stuff.

It's also another example of how you can be "hacked"

Big_Iron · Apr 21, 2006, 11:48 AM // 11:48

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mimi Miyagi

There are many ways you can get "hacked", besides the obvious "oh noes I downloaded a cheat and it had a keylogger" method.

One simple way is to set up a website that offers "hints, cheats, codes, walkthroughs" (or whatever) but requires you to register with the site first. Stupid people will use their same email address and password as their registration info, and will basically give whoever set up the website your GW account information.

Never, ever, use the same account/pw info for everything you do online.

Sound advice. I never use my main e-mail address for registering for anything on a website...even here on good old Guru. Sometimes a decent hacker doesn't even have to know your password, your e-mail adress would be enough. There are password cracking programs that can easily guess passwords. Most people use use simple passwords that are easy to remember. These are also the easiest to crack.

Dj Tano · Apr 21, 2006, 02:06 PM // 14:06

Ive never heard of people hacking accounts but i remember a friend of me who got his account "hacked". Turns out a friend of his friend knew his password somehow and sold/deleted everything.

Count to Potato · Apr 21, 2006, 04:41 PM // 16:41

I'm pretty sure another name for hacking is guess and check, passwords for emails or accounts

Loviatar · Apr 21, 2006, 05:20 PM // 17:20

Quote:

Originally Posted by Count to Potato

I'm pretty sure another name for hacking is guess and check, passwords for emails or accounts

that is why my GW email is random 15+ alpha/numeric and used nowhere else and my GW pass is the same.

plus firewall antispyware AV etc