Question to those who got hacked..

Can those who got hacked fill me up with some answers. So as to help others strengthen their defenses.

1) Did you went to those gil seller websites to check it out?

2) Did you click on any links that send you to a SE website that reqires you to log in.

3) When was the last time you remember changing your password? How strong is it?

4) Do you have any anti virus installed? Are they up to date?

5) Are you using those free VPN services?

6) Did you log in your account elsewhere? Lan shop, someone else home, asked your guildmate to log in for you.

7) Did you bring your PC / laptop for repairs?

Thx.

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Can those who got hacked fill me up with some answers. So as to help others strengthen their defenses.

1) Did you went to those gil seller websites to check it out?

2) Did you click on any links that send you to a SE website that reqires you to log in.

3) When was the last time you remember changing your password? How strong is it?

4) Do you have any anti virus installed? Are they up to date?

5) Are you using those free VPN services?

Thx.

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1) NO

2) NO

3) STRONG

4) YES

5) NO

8) Are you using a SE security token? (app or physical token)
(I'd like to know if any one is still getting hacked while using one)

1) Did you went to those gil seller websites to check it out- Nope

2) Did you click on any links that send you to a SE website that reqires you to log in - No

3) When was the last time you remember changing your password? How strong is it? - I havent changed it since launch as I've never been hacked before. It's a strong password, never been used by me for any other accounts.

4) Do you have any anti virus installed? Are they up to date? - Yep

5) Are you using those free VPN services? - No

6) Did you log in your account elsewhere? Lan shop, someone else home, asked your guildmate to log in for you. - No

7) Did you bring your PC / laptop for repairs? - No

Sounds so similar to the mass account hacks back in FFXI. Something SE never acknowledge.

I'm assuming people info is being hit via hacked accounts from other games with same name/pw. Also from exploited web elements, that's just my assumption based on the information I know about infections.

I wonder if people are getting their email addresses hacked, too.
For example an hacker could retrieve their email address if it's used on another forum/site/"w/e", hack it and use the password retrieval system of SE to get a new password.
Whoever is using gmail could enable the 2 steps verification using the smartphone token, similar to the SE one.

1) Did you went to those gil seller websites to check it out?
No
but i went to UltimatePay and PlaySpan the night before my account was compromised.
and yes, my UltimatePay and PlaySpan accounts shared the same email n pw as my FFXIV account.

2) Did you click on any links that send you to a SE website that reqires you to log in.
Yes, UltimatePay/PlaySpan via the account page.

3) When was the last time you remember changing your password? How strong is it?
Don't remember when, but it's moderately strong to crack.

4) Do you have any anti virus installed? Are they up to date?
Yes AVG and it's up to date. I have NoScript on FireFox for browsing web contents too.

5) Are you using those free VPN services?
No

6) Did you log in your account elsewhere? Lan shop, someone else home, asked your guildmate to log in for you.
No

7) Did you bring your PC / laptop for repairs?
No

8) Are you using a SE security token? (app or physical token)
No i wasn't.. but now I am...
a little bit too late though

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Originally Posted by Actionwaffle

I'm assuming people info is being hit via hacked accounts from other games with same name/pw.

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This is a common reason people get accounts stolen.

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Originally Posted by HumsterMKX

Sounds so similar to the mass account hacks back in FFXI. Something SE never acknowledge.

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Maybe because it never happened? Speculation didn't make it a fact.

In the last 15 years of playing MMOs, I wasn't hacked ONCE (started back then with Ultima Online and EverQuest 1, followed by countless others). It's your own fault is all I can think of. Best of luck getting them back though.

Dont use Loginname = Charactername or name used in other forum.

Use Passwords liike: KAi#dS0´4124
Even this kind of password should be suffient if not used everywhere: This.Is,A-Stupid#1 or My!Penis"Is§A$Champion (nice youtube serie called deep space 69)

1) Did you went to those gil seller websites to check it out? No

2) Did you click on any links that send you to a SE website that reqires you to log in. No

3) When was the last time you remember changing your password? How strong is it? Got an email to change the password about a week into actual launch, changed it to something I've never used on anything else. It's over 10 characters long, uses upper and lower cases and numbers.

4) Do you have any anti virus installed? Are they up to date? Yep and Yep

5) Are you using those free VPN services? No

6) Did you log in your account elsewhere? Lan shop, someone else home, asked your guildmate to log in for you. No

7) Did you bring your PC / laptop for repairs? No

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Originally Posted by Shazic

In the last 15 years of playing MMOs, I wasn't hacked ONCE (started back then with Ultima Online and EverQuest 1, followed by countless others). It's your own fault is all I can think of. Best of luck getting them back though.

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In the past 10 years I have NEVER been hacked before this. I also use the same login name and password for all the other MMOs I play/played (WoW, SWToR, Lord of the Rings, Neverwinter, Guild Wars 2, World of Tanks) yet none of them were hacked when my FF account was hacked, kinda strange don't you think?

asia.gamespot.com/final-fantasy-xiv-online-a-realm-reborn/forum/xivdbcom-might-have-xiv-keyloggers-67207642/

Hmm.... if what they say have some facts..

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Originally Posted by Kraggy

Maybe because it never happened? Speculation didn't make it a fact.

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Great... wheres the pm button.

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Originally Posted by HumsterMKX

Can those who got hacked fill me up with some answers. So as to help others strengthen their defenses.

1) Did you went to those gil seller websites to check it out?

2) Did you click on any links that send you to a SE website that reqires you to log in.

3) When was the last time you remember changing your password? How strong is it?

4) Do you have any anti virus installed? Are they up to date?

5) Are you using those free VPN services?

6) Did you log in your account elsewhere? Lan shop, someone else home, asked your guildmate to log in for you.

7) Did you bring your PC / laptop for repairs?

Thx.

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no
no
using the se token
yes
no
no

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Originally Posted by Shazic

In the last 15 years of playing MMOs, I wasn't hacked ONCE (started back then with Ultima Online and EverQuest 1, followed by countless others). It's your own fault is all I can think of. Best of luck getting them back though.

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In the last 30 years, I've never been hit by a car, so if you get hit by a car, it's your own fault.

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Originally Posted by kaiyouske

In the last 30 years, I've never been hit by a car, so if you get hit by a car, it's your own fault.

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Best quote ever.

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Originally Posted by kaiyouske

In the last 30 years, I\\'ve never been hit by a car, so if you get hit by a car, it\\'s your own fault.

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QFT!

10 character post requirwmtn, WTF?

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Originally Posted by kaiyouske

In the last 30 years, I've never been hit by a car, so if you get hit by a car, it's your own fault.

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LOL, I can add to this......in the past 40 years I have never been mugged, raped, murdered, won lotto, had cancer.........etc
So if you get any of those, it's your own fault.

I'm sure there is many more examples we can come up with :D

1) Did you went to those gil seller websites to check it?
No

2) Did you click on any links that send you to a SE website that reqires you to log in.
No

3) When was the last time you remember changing your password? How strong is it?
When the game was released, uppercase lowercase and numerical, no special characters, more than 8 characters long.

4) Do you have any anti virus installed? Are they up to date?
Avast, updates multiple times per day

5) Are you using those free VPN services?
No


6) Did you log in your account elsewhere? Lan shop, someone else home, asked your guildmate to log in for you.
No

7) Did you bring your PC / laptop for repairs?
No

Technically I have the apple security token but it was set up before I got banned but after I realized my account had been compromised. I had a physical one from 1.0 which recently broke and am waiting for a new physical one in the mail which is why I didn't have a token activated. I got banned while playing, no GM contacted me and I have received no e-mail explaining their actions.

I wonder if all those hacked are early access accounts and if the vulnerability occured with the retardedly bungled registration for said codes.

Hmmm....

Also, i wonder if any of the german, french, japan etc forums are having the same issues as NA/EU at having hacked accounts as well. Might be interesting to find out which areas of the globe (account wise) are afflicted heaviest.

Without some wall of security, ala a security token or an ip/email gate, if hackers wanna get you they will pretty much eventually get you, it just depends on the popularity of the market.

There are far too many vulnerabilities and issues out there, even through seemingly innocent and legit outlets.

Obviously, you can take good precautions, but all of this is pretty much common sense. If you want to avoid a hack and have SOME peace of mind, get an auth/token and request that Square do IP/email gating, as its instantly applied to everyone and extremely effective.

There's a reason you barely hear about hacking in online games and programs that use them as it's mandatory.

Ok, I just want to clear the air here since people don't seem to understand what the problem here is. Sure, hacking is part of the problem, but the main problem is the time it takes SE to restore accounts to their customers. You can suspend an account in what, like 5 minutes but it takes them 10+ days to restore your account? That my friends, is totally not acceptable.