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Grice Denaldi
State War Academy
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Posted - 2007.01.05 18:59:00 -
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Well... I never thought it would happen (I have never shared my password nor do I use 3rd party tools)but it has, my account was hacked. I came in this morning and my ships were gone, my items were sold and an ISK transfer was made to another player.
So far I have done the following:
1) Ran a full virus scan on my machine using Avast.
2) Changed my account password (after the virus scan).
3) Filed a petition.
Is there anything else that could/should be done? Any advice would be extremely welcome. Thanks...
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Na'Kunni
Amarr
Warped Mining
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Posted - 2007.01.05 19:03:00 -
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- Check your firewall??
- Change your password, regulary??
- Possibly you have signed up to a website EVE related with the same Login & Same password you use for EVE?
They hacked your account, but didnt change the password :S or your information??
I suppose all you can do now, is wait for a reply in the petition
 Originally by: Xenofur
Everyone wants to kick you in the nuts until your voice is stuck at the pitch of a japanese schoolgirl for the rest of your life.
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Kirjava
Caldari
Storm Thesis
The Red Skull
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Posted - 2007.01.05 19:03:00 -
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Reinstal your machine then change your PW.
chances are if they found it out once, they can do it again, ala a hidden keylogger.
CCP will probably say tough luck or similar so a reimbursement wouldent do anything I think.
Also, be glad they didnt transfer your charecter.
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Fortuna Cournot
Jewel Enterprises
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Posted - 2007.02.08 10:30:00 -
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Edited by: Fortuna Cournot on 08/02/2007 10:27:10
The same has happened to a corp mate tonight it seems. I hope CCP is goin to handle this by an automatism.
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Fortuna Cournot
Jewel Enterprises
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Posted - 2007.02.08 10:30:00 -
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Edited by: Fortuna Cournot on 08/02/2007 10:27:10
The same has happened to a corp mate tonight it seems. I hope CCP is goin to handle this by an automatism.
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Ivan Kirilenkov
Forum Moderator
Interstellar Services Department
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Posted - 2007.02.08 10:42:00 -
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There's been reports of keylogger tools, so I'd check carefully for that, and if you have a firewall or anything else that logs IPs, I'd check for any irregularities and if you do find such, include it in your petition.
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Ivan Kirilenkov
Forum Moderator
Interstellar Services Department
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Posted - 2007.02.08 10:42:00 -
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There's been reports of keylogger tools, so I'd check carefully for that, and if you have a firewall or anything else that logs IPs, I'd check for any irregularities and if you do find such, include it in your petition.
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Baleorg
Gallente
Guys of Sarcasm
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Posted - 2007.02.08 10:52:00 -
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although it looks strange for me, as soon some gm info item says "beware of keyloggers" etc, i see threads risen "uhh i got stolen"
withouth those gm posts i see those threads FAR LESS often ^^
and i got stolen once, but no accoutn change etc... turned out my rl buddy/corp mate wanted my attention so grabbed everything i had :-P
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Shameless Avenger
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Posted - 2007.02.08 10:52:00 -
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Edited by: Shameless Avenger on 08/02/2007 10:49:02
Originally by: Na'Kunni
- Possibly you have signed up to a website EVE related with the same Login & Same password you use for EVE?
IMHO that's the most common security flaw out there. I know many people that use the same password for their game accounts, game-sites, email, etc. No idea if that was the case for the OP but is good to raise awareness about this.
1) Passwords should be unique. Per site, not per user.
2) Don't ever make a txt file on your computer with your passwords info. Do it in paper if you must.
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Dr Aryandi
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Posted - 2007.02.08 11:15:00 -
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Originally by: Baleorg
although it looks strange for me, as soon some gm info item says "beware of keyloggers" etc, i see threads risen "uhh i got stolen"
withouth those gm posts i see those threads FAR LESS often ^^
and i got stolen once, but no accoutn change etc... turned out my rl buddy/corp mate wanted my attention so grabbed everything i had :-P
Do you not think its possible that the GMs saw a number of petitions for accounts being hacked, so they then posted the message?
So naturally you would see a connection...the warning comes out because people are getting hacked...and people are also posting threads for the same reason.
Blueprint Research Service Available
See thread for details.
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Joolie Jones
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Posted - 2007.02.08 12:08:00 -
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Edited by: Joolie Jones on 08/02/2007 12:05:08
wrong char
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Jain Za
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Posted - 2007.02.08 12:10:00 -
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Unfortunatley for us - the account that was hacked was used to empty our 3 POS's of fuel (3 months in each) destroy all the hangars complete with everyones ships in, offline the towers, steal all our BPO's and minerals from the offices in empire and pretty much wipe our corp out.
This isnt sabotage, its a violation of the EULA and has scrapped THOUSANDS of hours of hard work.
Estimated losses in the region of 18 billion.
Quote:
HELLO JACKASS MEMBERS OF JEWEL
LET ME TELL YOU A LITTLE STORY.
I WAS MINDING MY OWN, TESTING ACCOUNT NAMES, AND FOUND THAT THIS ACCOUNT WAS USED, MUCH TO MY PLEASURE, AS I FELT LIKE USING A PROGRAM I HAVE THAT BRUTE FORCES A WAY INTO SOMEONES ACCOUNT USING PASSWORD AFTER PASSWORD UNTILL IT GETS IN. AND WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT, THIS GUYS PASSWORD IS 1234 HAHA WHAT A JACKASS. IT TOOK ALMOST FIVE MINUTES TO GET IN, AND TOOK ME ALL DAY TO DESTROY HIM AND AS MUCH OF YOUR CORP AS I CAN.. WHAT DO YOU MEAN?
WHY I TOOK EVERYTHING THIS GUY HAS ACCESS TO IN THE CORP HANGERS, LISTED IN THE CORP MENUE, AND WHATS THIS? THERE ARE 3 POS BOOKMARKS! HUMM, PERHAPS I SHOULD CHECK THOSE OUT.. OH NICE SHIPS AND GEAR OUT HERE, SO I TOOK THEM, BLEW UP THE HANGERS AT ALL THREE LOCATIONS, AND OFFLINED THE TOWERS. AFTER I TOOK ALL THE FUEL OUT. ALL THATS LEFT? TAKE THIS GUYS 17 BILION ISL, SCORE!!! AND EVERYTHING I CAN SEL FROM YOU NICE PEOPLE, OH AND DELETE HIS CHARACTER. HAHAHA
CCP, we need you.
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Kerushi
Caldari
Black Thorne Corporation
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Posted - 2007.02.08 12:30:00 -
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oh nice, now we get brute force attacks... failed login 5 times should be set request a new password
if that password was indeed 1234 then LOL
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Vargrh
Gallente
Forsaken Empire
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Posted - 2007.02.08 12:54:00 -
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With regards to choosing secure passwords, use a 16 character long string of random upper and lower case letters and numbers.
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Crumplecorn
Gallente
Eve Cluster Explorations
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Posted - 2007.02.08 13:07:00 -
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The script kiddie in me get respects the concept of brute-forcing an account and trashing POSes.
pwnage
On passwords, the great thing about random alphanumeric strings is that you can make a change that from your perspective yields a very similar password, but from the perspective of an attacker using brute force is very different.
yh$n68Fd -> Yhsn6*fD
Both are pretty much the same password, just with the shift key pressed at different times. Easy to remember, hard to break.
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EVE is upside down!
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Baleorg
Gallente
Guys of Sarcasm
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Posted - 2007.02.08 13:10:00 -
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Originally by: Crumplecorn
yh$n68Fd -> Yhsn6*fD
weeee
*logs in as crumplecorn*
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