Hey UnctgtgFollow

Your account was sold on ebay today, he was on. Sorry to hear you were hacked.

Seriously??

If this is true that would be very bad. Wasnt he on his stage 4 relic weapon ><. For his sake i hope he sold it himself.

If he sold it himself he wont return to this forum anyway.

Why someone else his missery makes you laugh makes me wonder.

I hope you get things sorted Uncle Tony. Even on a PS2 your not safe apperently.

UNC had recently purchased the PC version of FFXI.

Apaprently he had also been infected with one of the new trojan keyloggers that steal MMO accounts ( CNNMOney recently had a report on how in many cases your MMO 'identity' is worth more to hackers than your 'real' identity in terms of cash value).

This person, apparently changed UNCs PW and sold a significant portion of his stuff.

UNC was able to get the account back on Sunday he said. Also he has not lost his Scythe, just a large amount of gil and currency he had been stock piling for his final upgrade. He also had several other items sold from his account.


Given that this is possibly a widespide threat, if the CNN article was right and the issue is thieves stealing accounts to sell for quick cash ( as seems to be supported by Shuffles comment), I would say that those who think this is funny, entertaining or otherwise comical stand a pretty good chance of getting to enjoy some fun first hand. For those who understnad the potential severity of this issue, I suggest you update any virus definitions you have been slacking on ASAP.

i had a chance to talk with unc last night, according to him all non r/e big money items were gone, all his jadeshells, pc charm, etc. totaling several hundred million. i only hope that he gets SE on the phone and can atleast track this stuff down, thats a big chunk of potential gil to hit the economy, enough imo for se to take notice.

what are you talking about? it'd be even funnier if it happent to those of us who think its hillarious.

Unc, I am saddened to hear this. You have been nothing but considerate and generous to me, with both time and advice you wouldn't give to just anyone. I'm only one little woodworker, but if I can help, say the word.

Actually, it's a pretty simple thing. I don't think the guy who snatched his account, gained access to his Credit Card number. For instance, there are programs out there that do nothing but randomly sort thru thousands of numbers and letters. Basically, all you gotta do is enter a name, in this case UNCTGTG, click a button, and it will sit there untill it finds a match on a password, or an account number.

This technique is widely used through many websites such as Yahoo! Pogo, etc. I don't know what it's called, don't care to. I'm personally not the type of person who needs to "Hack" something. I just assume go earn my own stuff, rather then hacking em because i want some stupid game money! If that person really needs game money THAT BAD, here's my solution. I will give you 2 million gil to stand outside IRL, mind you, for 20 minutes and get some damn SUN!

I will give you 2 million gil to stand outside IRL, mind you, for 20 minutes and get some damn SUN!

I will take you up on that! :3 I'll stand outside at work today for 40 mins, I'll want to see that 4 mill gil tonight though. :P

I believe it, I don't know from personal experience, but I would assume that it is much harder to prove a stolen MMORPG identity over identity theft. One can change their IP and/or credit card info on an account, nothing too suspicious. However, credit card theft would be by far riskier not only is it against federal law in the US, credit card companies, in this case Master Card has their protection and enough money to totally own you.

No program these days show your credit card info, from the server its always last 4 digits only, so it is unlikely that the thieves have his cc info, although I would still have all that info changed asap.





...no... NO.
I'm not a hacker but this is so unlikely it is disturbing that you would think this. I believe that the method you are implying is called "Brute Force." To log into FFXI you don't use a name (i.e. Unctgtg), you use a 4-letter 4-number generated pin and a random password of your choosing. For a Brute Force program to be able to sift through all of those bits of information and server requests to find an existing 8 character alone would be extremely difficult and then to generate a correct password, too, is damn near impossible, without thousand upon thousands of dollars worth of hardware. Even if they could manage to pull this off, they would have to get lucky enough to stumble upon an account worth any money at all.
Then add the fact that this is an attack on SE servers and they know it... they would report it to the FBI (like what happened last summer), money loss and high risk = not possible. A keylogger hidden in a third-party FFXI-related program is the most reasonable cause.

Perhaps I'm a little naive, but I'm sure I am right for the most part.

umm the 4-letter 4-number pin is not a word. therefore your brute force idea is still not possible.