My account got hacked ;;Follow

Yesterday I was playing on my blm 54 and suddenly got kicked out of the game cause someone else logged into my account. I relogged and he kept relogging to kick me out. I tried for 3 1/2 hours but never got the chance to change my password and the culprit eventually changed the password himself. I already reported the crime to the police since SE stated that they are going to assist the authorities in every way possible. I already figured out that someone selling all of my equipment that's of value atm. So far 7 pieces have been sold according to www.ffxiah.com. I'd like to get some information regarding what's SE is going to do about the items and gil I lost so far and about recovering my account. Can't do anything til tomorrow because the customer support isn't available during the weekend.

The password I used was a random mix of 8 numbers and letters which didn't have any pattern or made sense. I only played the game on my personal PC. Never gave anyone my password or playonline ID. Still don't have a clue how he got it besides trial and error.


Edit: I'm not using any 3rd party tool related to FFXI like Windower or FFXIApp or whatever it's called.

Edited, Nov 25th 2007 6:15pm by CaldorDarkKnight

I don't think Trial and Error works, isn't FFXI anti-"brute force"?

Hmm. I haven't installed anything suspicious on my PC lately. I had a problem with my Pol Viewer lately though. Whenever I logged out of Final Fantasy I got one of those Windows error messages and that Pol.exe caused it. Do you think this might be related to it?

The obvious come to mind:
1) 3rd-Party Programs gave away your stuff.
2) You gave your info to someone.
3) You got keylogged by some sort of malware.

There are little other choices from the above 3, choose wisely.

But if I got my password saved a keylogger shouldn't have worked since I never had to enter it.

I see. Thanks a lot for that information. I'm currently using that site you told me about and check for malware. Any idea though how I got into contact with a keylogger that was used by someone related to FFXI?

I'm neither using windower or that cheat tool FFXIapp or whatever it's called nor any other 3rd party apps.

I'm still hoping for a response what's SE probably going to do about lost equipment and gil.

Well the reason is that he isn't using my character to sell my stuff.
I imagined that the whole point of taking over my account was to sell my whole equipment. I thought about which items would sell fast and looked for the last Haubergeon sales. I checked out what the people sold recently and ended up finding my stuff is being sold by Fenlo.

http://www.ffxiah.com/player.php?id=1085774&sid=7

Stuff sold on that character so far I had:
- Haubergeon
- potent belt
- tatami shield
- (spike necklace)
- unyielding ring
- rune chopper
- wyvern earring
- Amemet Mantle+1

- sipahi turban
- chivalrous chain
- morion tanthlum


Of course it might be a strange coincidence but I'm positive he's selling my stuff right now.

EDIT: Just noticed I made a mistake regarding the spike necklace. I got one on my account but he bought one and didn't sell. No idea why he'd do that if he actually took the items though.

2. EDIT: several items I had on my account and sold by Fenlo now have been added to the list above.
Edited, Nov 25th 2007 6:57pm by CaldorDarkKnight

Edited, Nov 26th 2007 12:22am by CaldorDarkKnight

I think it's on a case per case basis but I don't think they'll be able to return your items or your gil. Someone that ran the longest running LS on Asura got hacked; lost everything and they didn't restore his stuff and he's been playing 4-5 years. I honestly don't see them doing it for you. If I got hacked I'd prolly walk away from the game. 3-4 years of work and going back and doing it all; not to mention losing all your r/ex stuff or AF they might've tossed. Nope; I'd prolly be thankful. They just saved me 3-4 more years of my life being wasted. I've heard people get gil back like from Casinos etc.

I hope you keep playing and overcome this like some have; the guy of 5 years started playing again regardless. Strong man. I don't think I could ever do that. But I haven't been put in that situation yet either. But yeah; if you didnt give out your password it's possible for a keylogger. But most of these account thefts are really simple. If you have autologin on any other machine then your computer that could ***** you. Hopefully that's not that case.

I just got the suspicion that he's selling my stuff but I got no prove really. I didn't want to name the items and name of the one selling until Pooffykitty pointed out that nothing sold on my account and I wanted to clear the confusion. But seriously it's kinda strange that all my money items I got are being sold by someone who never sold anything before and just started doing the day after my account was hijacked ;;

Edit: Since the account fight I lost to the hijacker took 3 1/2 hours I'm sure my IP as well as the IP of the one who took over my account should have ended up in a pretty long log and SE should be able to figure out easily about that.

2nd Edit: I get your point though that you might believe I just try to make some extra money. I've been playing FFXI since 2003 though and have got more than 300 RL days on my playtime and I'm sure you can imagine getting that stuff +300k gil that were on my account aren't really a problem to make in that kind of time. Furthermore if you can contact several people on Fenrir I know well(if you're really interested send me a pm and I'll give you 10+ people who know about the equipment I got) and have them confirm my claims.


Edited, Nov 25th 2007 7:06pm by CaldorDarkKnight

Edited, Nov 25th 2007 7:14pm by CaldorDarkKnight

Thanks for the encouragement MasterThief. If they really dropped all my rare/ex stuff I'd really consider leaving the game although I really like playing it. I'd be happy if they could restore all/most of my account but if I'm only losing the gil + items I can just buy back I'd probably get over it since I can farm it back at a decent speed with my Thief.

I'm still scanning my PC but so far I haven't found any malware that might have caused my problem as far as I can see.
Found Malware up til now
- FREELOADER_DRIVERCLEANER
- ADWARE_FUNWEBPRODUCTS
- FREELOADER_WINFIXER
- ADWARE_DOLLARREVENUE
- ADWARE_BESTOFFERS

I would also recomend getting a firewall, like zone alarm.
There will stop any programs from getting on the net with out your say so. and will make you computer hidden to the usal port scanning and what not.

Only third-rate keyloggers log only keystrokes.

Hmm. That's why I've been wondering how I could have come into contact with a keylogger in the 1st place. I know I haven't downloaded anything. Looking for recipes and stuff surfing on random websites featuring FFXI contents but no downloads at all.

BTW: It looks like there is at least one more with exactly the same problem.

http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/forum.html?forum=29;mid=119588689074441781;page=1;howmany=50#m119589023983216149

That's the link to another thread regarding the same matter on the FFXI Feedback forum.