That is what is so odd about it... they took over 3mill of stuff out of the safe, but left almost 2 mill behind, some of which was on my character...though it wasn't equipped. And purging my data was a recommendation from SE. They even had me clear my friends list as well. Security software didn't catch any adware/spyware crud on my game system either--it was only caught on my laptop, which is what I used to log into the SE LS sight and hit all the other FFXI stuff. So if they trapped my sign-in info, that is where they likely got it from-my laptop. Which is another reason I don't like having to use my game credentials to access these forums. Maybe they were only looking for specific gear in general, or maybe they already knew that I had a specific set of gears and that's all they took. Who knows.

But this is distracting from the real debate/issue with this move. They are already forcing us to use game credentials to log-in, creating a potential attack vector, and then they are going to force us to publish information identifying our in-game persona. This has the potential to create problems for some users and we should be given the ability to opt out.