Just Saw One My FC Members Shouting RMT... AKA Hacked...

[Mhyrria]

He prolly bought gil or went to those hack this game site.

[blowfin]

He prolly bought gil or went to those hack this game site.

No, a lot of people are being compromised without doing anything dodgy. It seems password are just being brute forced or nicked from other sites. There are a few things:
- Don't use your SE account name anywhere else, like here for example
- Make sure your password is different from any other sites
- Get the security token. I've been a bit blase about it, but will be doing this first thing when I get home tonight.

[Firesped]

No, a lot of people are being compromised without doing anything dodgy. It seems password are just being brute forced or nicked from other sites. There are a few things:
- Don't use your SE account name anywhere else, like here for example
- Make sure your password is different from any other sites
- Get the security token. I've been a bit blase about it, but will be doing this first thing when I get home tonight.

-setup a new email address for Square Enix only because you can login with email addresses now.

[Esura]

No, a lot of people are being compromised without doing anything dodgy. It seems password are just being brute forced or nicked from other sites. There are a few things:
- Don't use your SE account name anywhere else, like here for example
- Make sure your password is different from any other sites
- Get the security token. I've been a bit blase about it, but will be doing this first thing when I get home tonight.

Could I change it?

[Tupsi]

No, a lot of people are being compromised without doing anything dodgy

Sorry, Blowfin, but you will never know this 100% even if you say you do.

[KisaiTenshi]

No, a lot of people are being compromised without doing anything dodgy.

HA! No, it's one of three things:
a) They bought gil, power leveling, or some other scammy thing that you give your login info to
b) There email was compromised and password was "reset"
c) One of the related SSO (Single Signon)'s were hacked. eg.
Steam (was hacked in 2011), PSN (was hacked some time in 2011) , Xbox Live was hacked in March 2013 (which means your MSN(outlook/hotmail)/Skype is also compromised), SquareEnix was hacked in 2011 as well. So... well if you haven't changed your passwords on all of these services since march, chances are one of them is the compromised one.

[RyuujinZERO]

He prolly bought gil or went to those hack this game site.

This is a fallacy i see thrown about a lot. While it's certainly possible, the majority of hacking comes from people re-using passwords they use elsewhere on the net.

Say you're a member of CuteLittlePuppies.com (I dunno if that's a real site ) - and you use the same username and password there and you do on FF14. CuteLittlePuppies.com gets hacked, and all the user details stolen. Those details are then sold online to criminal groups.

Criminal groups then try a dictionary attack on the FF14 servers, testing out all the username/password combos from their bought dictionary - a small number of them end up yielding successful logins, and these become the hacked accounts. Most recent MMOs (notably GW2) have suffered the same problem, because the strategy seems to work.