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PieRat Scummm
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Posted - 2011.02.24 19:28:00 -
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Pilot and star system names have been changed to protect the innocent.
New Eden is a strange, and wonderful place where almost anything can happen. Many times I have read stories of betrayal, empires falling, and how the actions of one player can affect the lives of hundreds of others, and destabilize an entire region.
This is one of those stories, that illustrates what makes this game unlike any other.
Allow me a bit of back story;
I am a pilot in a small pirate corporation. We are the scum of the EVE universe, the most hated of the hated.
We are the ones who wait on the lowsec gates, and kill those foolish enough to come through, interested only in the contents of their cargo holds, and the bragging rights the inevitable killmail holds.
While camping a stargate in an outlying region our corporation CEO, guild boss to those uninitiated to the world of EVE decided he was bored. Gatecamping can be a dull, dull excercise, and nothing had come through for a good 40 minutes. "Camping this gate is dull, I'm going to go out", he said. An hour passed, a few foolish newbies fell to our guns, tears were spilt and harsh words delivered. We laughed about it. We even bagged a battleships, which fell quickly to our superior numbers.
Suddenly our CEO came back online. " o/ ", the standard greeting in EVE online was posted to our chat channel, but met with no response from him. Eventually both of his accounts came online, but he remained silent.
Two ships drop out of warp near our gate camp, and jump through the gate. A cargo vessel and a frigate. Our CEO, and his alt account. " o/ " again in the local system chat channel "Blade, get a combat ship come and join us! We've got some good kills today"
Again, no response. Three more times this happens, at which point we are becoming suspicious. Generally in EVE, it is a bad thing if someone is running a cargo vessel out of low security space, back to empire. It only means one thing: they are moving out. As the head of our corp, this could only mean one of two things: betrayal, or his account had been hacked and someone was stealing his assets.
A quick meeting of the corporate directors was called, as well as some mutual friends.
"What is Blade doing?" .. "He must be going rogue" .. "We need to stop this from happening, he could steal many of our assets" .. A quick check of our corporate hanger, and POS (player owned station) revealed nothing was missing, except for Blade's personal assets. All that remained in his hanger was his newly acquired Caldari carrier. A powerful starship that represents a strategic military resource to all of the players living in the star system.
A quick decision was made, the next time Blade jumped through we would interdict his ship, holding it immobile in space and thus forcing him to communicate with us.
Like a moth to the flame he jumped through again, and his Condor class frigate was quickly warp scrambled and webbed. Suddenly, Blade did the unthinkable, he ejected from the ship and warped away in his escape pod.
Frustrated with the situation, our director Luigi vaporised the small abandoned vessel with a single volley from his array of auto-cannons.
"This is not right, this is not Blade.. He would say something" Luigi stated. I agreed. The only way I knew of to reach Blade was through facebook.
Luckily, he was online.
"What are you doing Blade?" û Me
"What you you mean?" û Blade
"You are moving your stuff out of Alderaan, are you betraying us?" û Me
"What are you on about? I'm not even playing EVE. I am at a mates house" û Blade
At this point it all became too clear. Someone had hacked Blades accounts. RMT's as they are called. Real Money Traders.. They would sell every scrap he owned, and disseminate the money to their friends where it could never be recovered, and sell that money to people for real world cash. 'Gold Farmers' as they are called in most online games.
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PieRat Scummm
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Posted - 2011.02.24 19:30:00 -
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scum. The only scum that even space pirates look down on.
As the realization hit that their ultimate goal was the carrier, I communicated what was happening to our small fleet.
"Check the station, make sure the carrier is there" commanded the FC (fleet commander), "and everyone warp to the station immediately and ready your warp disruptors and scramblers. We have to web the carrier if it undocks, to prevent it from jumping out."
You see, our low security home has no refinery, and a poor market, thus selling the carrier there was not an option for the hacker as nobody would buy it, and he could not 'refine' it to its base minerals there either.. We knew he would have to execute an FTL jump out of the system, an ability unique to carriers and a few other capitol ships in order to sell it. We could stop him.
"This guy is a Cockroach." our fleet commander stated, venom in his voice.
As everyone was coordinating, I was furiously communicating with Blade on facebook, and relaying information to the fleet. His account had indeed been hacked. He was at a friends house, and was downloading EVE. He had changed his account passwords, but this did not disconnect the hacker. Until he could download and log into the game, he could not bump the hacker off of the account. He estimated less than an hour for the download to finish
Surely enough, the hacker undocked his carrier moments later, only to see 10 friendly battlecruisers and a carrier waiting for him. Immediately we targetted, scrambled and webbed the vessel, rendering it helpless to escape. It opened fire on one of us. The space station responded in kind by opening fire on the carrier, and us for perpetrating hostile action outside the station. Thankfully our logistics ships were able to keep everyone's armor regenerating, even Blade's carrier which the hacker seemed to be trying to get destroyed by the sentry guns.
We were at a standoff. The hacker was pinned. It was now a waiting game, would Blade regain control of his accounts first, would we run out of time and have to log out letting him get away? Of course he had no way of knowing Blade was furiously trying to regain control of his accounts, and was in contact with us via facebook.
This standoff continued for almost an hour. Us not budging, the hacker unable to do anything but wait. Sentry guns firing, and warp disruptor beams trained on the carrier.
Finally he spoke. "You know this thing carries smartbombs, right" These heinous weapons could wipe us out if he activated them, not to mention the arsenal of fighter drones he was carrying in his bay. However he never launched them. We can only assume he did not have the skills to do so, or had some other plan.
"For the greater glory of the empire" I responded.
Finally, Blade managed to regain control of one of his accounts, not the carrier pilot. He undocked a small frigate to see his billion credit flagship under attack by a friendly fleet and the station "Oh my God, you guys were not sh**ing me were you?"
Unable to login to the main account, as the hacker had changed the password, it took a few minutes for him to reset the password and log into that one. Upon reconnecting, and bumping off the hacker I asked him a question only he would know the answer to, and he responded correctly.
"It's over guys, Blade is in control. Cease fire and release the carrier. We have won the day."
As our warp disruptors and repair beams powered down, Blade docked and began an inventory of his assets.
Everything had been moved to a nearby high security station, and a courier contract had been put up to have it shipped to a local market hub, where the hacker no doubt intended to sell it before he was caught. Blade cancelled the shipping contract and we all breathed a sigh of relief.
4 hours since the hacker had come online, we were victorious, and had prevented the perpetration of a heinous real world crime.
Just another day in New Eden.
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Bumblefck
Kerensky Initiatives
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Posted - 2011.02.24 19:31:00 -
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Edited by: Bumblefck on 24/02/2011 19:31:10 pipped to the post :(
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Ingvar Angst
Amarr Omni Industrial Coalition Crooked Cross
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Posted - 2011.02.24 19:35:00 -
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Well done, and a good read.
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Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
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Posted - 2011.02.24 19:46:00 -
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Nice! ùùù ôIf you're not willing to fight for what you have in ≡v≡à you don't deserve it, and you will lose it.ö ù Karath Piki |
XenosisReaper
Rising Ashes Inc. Important Internet Spaceship League
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Posted - 2011.02.24 19:48:00 -
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Best post in GD in....ages? I actually cheered
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Vicker Lahn'se
Minmatar STRAG3S STRAG3S.INC
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Posted - 2011.02.24 19:50:00 -
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A good read. +1
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Zaotome
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Posted - 2011.02.24 19:54:00 -
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nice storytelling! even if i dont like pirates that much, i rather loose a ship to pirates instead of hackers^^
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Torie Foster
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Posted - 2011.02.24 19:54:00 -
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Great post!
Time to update passwords!
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Evil Aye
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Posted - 2011.02.24 19:55:00 -
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Good Aye. Slave |
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Stick Cult
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Posted - 2011.02.24 19:55:00 -
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Surprised he didn't just give you his new password and account name at that point and you could've saved the day a few hours quicker... Still a great story though!
Originally by: CCP Tuxford my bad. Rest assured I'm being ridiculed by my co-workers.
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VE3DVY
Amarr
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Posted - 2011.02.24 19:57:00 -
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One of the best posts I've seen in a long time. Bravo brother, er. pirate scum?
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PieRat Scummm
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Posted - 2011.02.24 19:58:00 -
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Edited by: PieRat scummm on 24/02/2011 19:58:48
Originally by: Stick Cult Surprised he didn't just give you his new password and account name at that point and you could've saved the day a few hours quicker... Still a great story though!
A fair point.
Until he regained control and undocked and saw it himself, he didn't believe us :) Likely thought I was trying to do the same thing the hacker was.
Trust no one, first rule of EVE. :)
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Serge Bastana
Gallente GWA Corp
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Posted - 2011.02.24 20:00:00 -
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Good stuff ------------------------------------------------ Quafe is people! Welcome to eve where your sensibilities are a liability |
Telvani
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Posted - 2011.02.24 20:07:00 -
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your CEO should probably inject the fighters skill now |
Ephemeron
Caldari Provisions
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Posted - 2011.02.24 20:09:00 -
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if that hacker was a little smarter he could have initiated self destruct - and got full insurance payout
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PieRat Scummm
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Posted - 2011.02.24 20:11:00 -
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Originally by: Telvani your CEO should probably inject the fighters skill now
a good point.. he has it.. we can only guess as to why the hacker did not fully attack, or self-destruct.. perhaps he had backup coming in to kill us.
we will never know.
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Ephemeron
Caldari Provisions
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Posted - 2011.02.24 20:19:00 -
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also, the fact that both accounts were taken over at same time would suggest that the physical computer of the player is infected with keylogger or other malicious software
I'd recommend reformatting
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Stick Cult
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Posted - 2011.02.24 20:19:00 -
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Originally by: Ephemeron also, the fact that both accounts were taken over at same time would suggest that the physical computer of the player is infected with keylogger or other malicious software
I'd recommend reformatting
Or just a virus scan...
Originally by: CCP Tuxford my bad. Rest assured I'm being ridiculed by my co-workers.
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PieRat Scummm
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Posted - 2011.02.24 20:20:00 -
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+10 steps ahead guys :)
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Barakkus
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Posted - 2011.02.24 20:21:00 -
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Originally by: Ephemeron also, the fact that both accounts were taken over at same time would suggest that the physical computer of the player is infected with keylogger or other malicious software
I'd recommend reformatting
A lot of the time the victim used the same credentials to sign up for a website and the website was hacked. A LOT of login credentials for MMOs are stolen this way. - - [SERVICE] Corp Standings For POS anchoring
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Illwill Bill
Reign of Anarchy
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Posted - 2011.02.24 20:22:00 -
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Cool story bro. No really, it was!
Originally by: CCP Zymurgist Revenge is a dish best served with auto-cannons.
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Malen Nenokal
The Nightshift
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Posted - 2011.02.24 20:26:00 -
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Would read again, nice story.
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Alexi Komanov
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Posted - 2011.02.24 20:35:00 -
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+1 my good sir
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Bek Thyron
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Posted - 2011.02.24 20:37:00 -
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Great story, great action. +1
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Mister Rocknrolla
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Posted - 2011.02.24 20:42:00 -
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Imagining...
[mask pulled off]
"And I would've gotten away with it, too. If it hadn't been for you meddling kids."
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Venkul Mul
Gallente
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Posted - 2011.02.24 20:45:00 -
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Nice story and good for your CEO to have recovered the stuff, but would it not be simpler for him to file a petition instead than downloading EVE?
Maybe CCP could even have got some useful information about the hacker getting him redhanded.
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PieRat Scummm
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Posted - 2011.02.24 20:51:00 -
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Originally by: Venkul Mul Nice story and good for your CEO to have recovered the stuff, but would it not be simpler for him to file a petition instead than downloading EVE?
Maybe CCP could even have got some useful information about the hacker getting him redhanded.
There are many ways to skin a cat. It was a hectic situation.. This is just how it unfolded.. Hindsight and bleacher views are always 20/20.. In the heat of the moment, what needs to be done is done.
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Apollo Gabriel
Brotherhood Of Fallen Angels Etherium Cartel
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Posted - 2011.02.24 21:42:00 -
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Even scum as yourself don't deserve this type of theft, good work!
***** Signature may appear without warning! ***** Please do not feed the trolls, it builds dependency.
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Barakkus
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Posted - 2011.02.24 21:48:00 -
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Originally by: Venkul Mul Nice story and good for your CEO to have recovered the stuff, but would it not be simpler for him to file a petition instead than downloading EVE?
Maybe CCP could even have got some useful information about the hacker getting him redhanded.
By the time they got around to the petition all his stuff would have been gone and possibly all of the corp's stuff, maybe even biomassed the character. - - [SERVICE] Corp Standings For POS anchoring
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