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a person named Minkasui has accessed my account (somehow) and sold everything i had.

i have attempted to contact the GM and SE and as far as they are concerned its MY fault.

i know it was her because she sent me a /tell laughing about what she did to me.

i ask everybody on titan to /blist, MPK, Flame, ect...(i really dont care which) this person.

a whole years worth of work is gone thanks to her.

GM = {|Too weak|}

Edit:forgot to add that this is the Titan server

Edited, Thu Nov 4 17:44:54 2004 by Lunapanshiel

And how did this person get your account info?

i havent given my password to anybody

nope i'm the only person around here that plays this game. and i'm not stupid

The windower and parser from the OFFICIAL sites are clean. Other people have hacked them and even the programmer of the parser got caught by the hacker.

Solution - only download software from the original programmers website. Unless of course you don't trust the programmer in which case don't use their software.

Edited, Thu Nov 4 18:02:44 2004 by Reaperttk

Well,there are only so many ways they can do that. I will list the ones that come off the top of my head.

1) That bot you downloaded had a key logger.
2) Something else you installed had a key logger.
3) The person had access to your computer,either from the keyboard,or through a back door program. (see 1 and 2)
4) You gave someone the password.
5) Your ID and password were very easy to guess. (Anything like "secret","password" ,any name, or anything that is profane or drug related,such as "bonghits" or "*****" is very easy to guess)
6) You use the same password all over the place. (If you do this,and for instance,use it on some little message board that some FFXI player has setup,you just gave the webmaster your password.
7) You wrote your password down somewhere.(for instance,lets say you write on the back of a buisness card "FFXI ID: Skrotum PW: *****" Not only does this fall under item 5,an easy to guess PW,but now anyone who finds that card,if you drop it,can steal your account)

Good passwords should mix letters of both cases and numbers. Really good passwords should be random,but thats just not practical. A good alternative is to use two unrealated words,perhaps mispelled,with some punctiation or other symbols. For instance "iCeland_kItten26" would be a good password,thats not that hard to memorize. There is no magic to hacking passwords. Most of the time,its the end user that compromises his own security.

Edited, Thu Nov 4 18:13:28 2004 by Valtoramir

been there done that -.-

I don't have the link, but it has been stated on these boards, by the programs author that the Parser has viruses in it that can steal account passwords. It did not origianlly, but hackers (crackers really) downloaded it, added worms and viruses for FFXI password farming and then reposted it for download on other websites. The program author found out they where offering it as a download and wanted to check which version they where giving people, bam he downloaded it and found the Viruses.

Link anyone?

Also, recently on FFVaults some people have been posting links to various FFXI sites, ussually for bots and expliots. These are quickly nuked from the boards for being against the ToS. Out of curiousity I went to see one of these sites and what they where about. Low and behold, my virus detection catches the site trying to use Active X to install a trojan variant. This Trojan to be exact: Exploit-MhtRedir.gen

Look that up on Macafee or google it and you will find that this little back door is known to be used to install things like password harvester spyware, among other things on your PC without your knowledge. You only have to click a link to get it, say a cute Taru flash video website link or something.

I personally believe the latest outbreak of people's accounts being hacked is from websites they are visiting, not just things they download. I think the reason it is so much more prevelant now is because the ability to sell gil online to places like IGE is a tempting target to hackers that don't even play FFXI but want some money. They buy a version of the game and simply crack accounts, steal millions as fast as possible then sell it to IGE and others.

In todays world of spyware, and the young and sometimes inexpirenced people that are playing FFXI. It is not hard to imagine there are lots of inffected fanboi sites out there, infected PCs, or unupdated virus scanners out there. Plus, if there is money to be made, never underestimate a chinese gil hackers ability to find a way into your PC.

/end tin-foil hat tiraid.

no wonder you have a 2 star rating. you are a ****

i have already told you everything so stfu

i'm not here to make friends. i am quite pissed off that this has happened and i dont need know-it-alls saying i'm in denial, i'm telling the truth here and if you dont have any constuctive input then dont bother posting

Edited, Thu Nov 4 22:28:26 2004 by Lunapanshiel

Edited, Thu Nov 4 22:35:01 2004 by Lunapanshiel

/sigh... so Naive

she doesnt respond to any of the /tells i send her. the only time i ever get /tells is when she randomly decides to pester me.


"you are garbage, useless to me" - Minkasui

omg how i want her dead -.-

why are you even posting in this thread? dont you have anything better to do?

i'm just mad, and saying i'm in denial isn't helping. most of the questions i am being asked are just repeats of previous posts, therefore i have already answered them

Edited, Thu Nov 4 22:55:30 2004 by Lunapanshiel

... what is your problem?