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

[Nasibihc]

I also saw a guy named William Shakespeare shouting RMT messages.. I wonder if his account was hacked. lol

[JayCommon]

It does also look like something is being done about the RMTs. Yesterday, when I logged in, Ul'dah only had 2 shouters. When I went to blacklist them 3 of the people on my list had been deleted, so that's at least a good sign. I agree it is getting out of control, though.

[Aenarion]

If people didnt go to the gil websites(even if they didnt buy anything) they wouldnt be getting hacked.

As other posters have pointed out, this is most definitely false. There are about 7583746274 different ways for someone to be compromised on the net, many of which requires no action from the user themselves. Just this past few months I've received notices from a couple of tech forums and UbiSoft about losing their user info to hackers, I guess I should tell them to stop going to gilseller websites?

[Freestyle]

Well worth the money for the token, still using my FFXI one I bought years ago (no idea how old it is now) still going strong tho. Also have a spare token from my 1.0 CE box.

[kazaran]

wait who? Not good.

[Rath]

Just be careful with your software token. Mine gives passwords that do not work anymore. It was working fine but has not since yesterday. Removal also fails. Will be on the phone with support as soon as it opens.

[Urvanis]

I don't like security tokens. It dumbs down one's own ability to counter security exploits by placing the responsibility in another.

I've been online gaming for over 15 years, I've only ever had an email account "hacked". Things like security tokens, and other forms of physical verification only promote negligence from an individual. It is a good additional level of security, but with most people it just leads them to being lazy about it. using the same password for multiple accounts, never changing their password. and worse yet, never realizing that their account has been compromised because of a physical barrier. then continuing to use the same password somewhere where that barrier isn't present.

In this day and age, blaming a company for not protecting your account while you put little or no effort into protecting it yourself is like blaming the police because you got robbed walking down a dark ally late at night.

[Dozer]

SE posted a bit about this: http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...41eaefc2aeef7b

Some of this information may be helpful to people here.

[Kayo]

Guys get your tokens up!!

This situation is out of control and very sad, I immediately removed him from our FC before our chest could be emptied and I have Gil controls.. but wow...


Just a very sad situation.

Great... next time you see the real him, thank him for sucking at account security and adding to the problem. Its gotten to the poit where I just turn off /shout.

SE really needs to add more security measures. Rift did an awesome job with identifying IPs and heavily limiting them if/when they signed on to a different one. They need to do this asap ... especially to accouts that dont use the security app. I know its not their fault players keep getting hacked and they have a full "task force" dedicated to this but obviously thats not enough. The amount of dumbasses out there with weak security measures is astounding and impossible to keep up with.

[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?