Hacks still happening . . .Follow

But but... ps2 players represent all that is noble and pure within FFXI! They play the game the way it was meant to be played, surely somebody who doesn't use windower could not possibly succumb to rmt tactics?!

one account I use got hacked too, and I have literally no clue from where. The account that i use (on the same computer) with the security token is fine the one without is the one hacked.

happened in the last couple weeks roughly.

i'm going to sound like i'm tooting my own horn but I'm fairly computer savvy and very surprised it happened to me.

I would say that because it was a hnm shell, and several in the group got hit, and couple this with rumors that zhi on garuda was also hacked while he was looking for new cheats, then most likely this group attempted to access the same tools and website that zhi did.

Theory on BG is that a registration server got hacked.

That's why you might of heard of people over the weekend having to go and call and get their passwords reset, might of been a second round tho that Square DID NOT catch. (They caught one and locked down a ton of accounts as preventive measure.)

This is just scary. REALLY scary.

Someone else said the same thing on another forum. You might want to check your pc for Trojans. I had a one on my pc which was a gamepass Trojan, one that steals your passwords and what not. But I have a token and had no issues yet. It appeared yesterday too.

Here is a description.

Win32/Gamepass is a family of trojans that steals login credentials and in-game information related to various Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPG). Files belonging to this malware family are Win32 executables that are packed/protected using various packers such as UPX, UPack, FSG and NSAnti.

Win32/Gamepass trojan variants steal sensitive information related to various MMORPGs and other online games, particularly those popular in China and East Asia.

Gamepass generally monitors window titles and processes, searching for indications that the targeted game has been launched. For instance, it is common for the trojan to initialize its logging routines after it has found an active window with the title of the game, which is commonly in Chinese for most of the titles targeted.

It is also common for some Gamepass variants to drop a DLL which allows it to install either a keyboard or a mouse hook. The trojan waits until the user has entered a keystroke or clicked a mouse button before it begins logging sensitive information. The trojan logs the account name and password that the user enters into the game's login prompt window in order to access their account.

Gamepass variants may also steal details specific to the host machine, as well as in-game information related to the game being played. In-game information is stolen by the trojan in various ways, such as:

* By reading information from sub-windows accessed by the user in-game
* By reading the process memory of the game's main executable
* By reading information from the game's setup files.

Such information includes:

* IP and host name of machine
* Game server name
* Role information (character's name, job/role, sex, level)
* Game information (amount of currency, map details)

Gamepass can store this information in a log file, and then send the log file to a remote attacker, either via email or by posting the information to a remote website.

Hey! I only go to one :o

I'm on xbox360 and i've been okay..so far. It's all making me very nervous though. I have the PC version sitting on my dresser but i'm afraid to install it >.>; I would love to start using parsers, though...

Hacking to liquidate gil is nothing more than killing the game that they try to make money from. I wonder is similar things happening to other games as well.

I just wish I have better things to say because I really do not. >< I think I am doing enough to keep my computer safe, but what is really ... enough?

Except Yamato doesn't fight land kings or things we'd need to claim using a bot. Nice try though. (We're more "general endgame" - sky, sea, ZNMs, KS99, etc - than we are true HNM.)

People are still getting hacked even with the token by a way that the hacker does not need to know anything what is shown in the token or your password -- they simply stole your session after you log in.

I do want to hear stories about hacking in other games. Is is just FFXI get targeted? Or it is much wider scale problem?

Um... it does invalidate itself once used though, right?

Yar. Once a code is used that code and all previous codes become unusable.

This. I've logged in just once to enable a few things for FFXIAH.com and then told that login system to **** off. Nothing like an 'automatic login system' to leave your login info neatly stored and lightly encrypted in a cookie somewhere.