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Originally Posted by Fuumanchew

Another way is that hackers will hack forums of various game sites and try the usernames and passwords they retrieve from them and then use those in selected MMO's in hopes they weren't smart and didn't use a different username/password for the game. A lot of people don't use various usernames and passwords, so it is very easy to get into some peoples accounts. They used this strategy in Diablo III, but I'm sure they use it for everything else too because it was very successful.

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This. I bet this is the single most common way to loose your acocunt. I got my email breached once and they got hold of my Blizzard account and this was due to me using the same username and password everywhere. Lesson learned after that.

And I don't like people saying "hacked", that would imply someone singled you out and brute forced your account, that doesn't happen.

I find it shameful that people have to hack other's accounts. The sheer ignorance of those astounds me. What could you possibly get out of taking control of another person's account? Sending gil to their main? I fail to see why this has suddenly become such a big thing. How can gamers take away the pride and joy of another player's toon?

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Originally Posted by LilithThanheim

I find it shameful that people have to hack other's accounts. The sheer ignorance of those astounds me. What could you possibly get out of taking control of another person's account? Sending gil to their main? I fail to see why this has suddenly become such a big thing. How can gamers take away the pride and joy of another player's toon?

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5 days I can't take it anymore I closed my ticket and I'm just gonna move on all I want to do is play

Wow, this is terrible.

Sorry guys.

Help spread the word to use a token. If you're hacked you're pretty much screwed >.>

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Originally Posted by cooler989

5 days I can't take it anymore I closed my ticket and I'm just gonna move on all I want to do is play

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Here's to hoping they can fix you up.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ppear-roles%29

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Originally Posted by Akaasha

This. I bet this is the single most common way to loose your acocunt. I got my email breached once and they got hold of my Blizzard account and this was due to me using the same username and password everywhere. Lesson learned after that.

And I don't like people saying "hacked", that would imply someone singled you out and brute forced your account, that doesn't happen.

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I had the same thing happen to my blizzard account, but there are more ways to hack someone. Brute force is just one method, in this case they hacked a server, got the login info, then logged into multiple games with that info.

In this case, I doubt people would realize, they use the same UN/PW on multiple sites and other sites could have gotten hacked without them knowing or caring.

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Originally Posted by LilithThanheim

I find it shameful that people have to hack other's accounts. The sheer ignorance of those astounds me. What could you possibly get out of taking control of another person's account? Sending gil to their main? I fail to see why this has suddenly become such a big thing. How can gamers take away the pride and joy of another player's toon?

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The reason this is happening is because those hi-jacking the accounts could care less about anything other than advertising their gil selling site. I can assure you there is a fair number of folks visiting those advertised sites and attempting to buy gil, only to get their accounts hi-jacked for the same purpose, and never receiving anything other than grief for their efforts.

I'm on 'the list' for investigation into my account since I got banned overnight Monday for 'spamming'.

I can't imagine anyone would be able to look at my history and be like "Yes, he totally pre-orderd the CE, played a good amount, got each crafting class up to 25+, and played a lot with another person just to make a character on a server he hadn't been playing on and spam /sh with RMT offers. Yep."

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Originally Posted by Lethallin

I'm on 'the list' for investigation into my account since I got banned overnight Monday for 'spamming'.

I can't imagine anyone would be able to look at my history and be like "Yes, he totally pre-orderd the CE, played a good amount, got each crafting class up to 25+, and played a lot with another person just to make a character on a server he hadn't been playing on and spam /sh with RMT offers. Yep."

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I'm right there with ya. Made a free company - bought CE - made a "healer" to sell gold. Best idea ever!