The Hacker and You: How gilsellers steal your account and advertise in your name.

[Gilraen]

Honestly, I don't see why people are even registering at these fan sites. Most of them are just wikis, no need to create an account to peruse a wiki.

[Sadique]

Honestly, I don't see why people are even registering at these fan sites. Most of them are just wikis, no need to create an account to peruse a wiki.

a lot of people really just have no sense of how things on the internet works. I know people who are amazing at playing games, but clueless about much else on the internet aside from facebook.

[ReaperT]

what i dont understand is, before the head start, if anybody logged into your game from a new IP it would lock the account. It doesnt do this anymore and im not sure why.

Because prior the the head start was beta and, IIRC, logging into the game from another IP was considered a violation of the NDA unless it could be proven otherwise.

[Ninjaii]

OP Snip.

Nice try attempting to sound like u know what you are talking about, but you are wrong, and if u become one of the 1000s of compromised accounts you will realize it. It actually appears to be a security hole in the FFXIV program.

Our Free Company Leader was locked out because of having their account compromised. They never actually had an RMT literally take over their account,or if they did it was for under 30 minutes after the leader last logged off,and the 'compromiser' logged off within that same 30 minute timeframe. The literal hacked accounts stay online much longer than that. Appears taht even if ppl unsuccesfully hack your account you are put just like everyone else on the 1 week minimum lock-out, and if you dont go to se support ur perma-banned.

I've heard that just simply visiting any of the RMT sites can put your computer at risk of being infected with key-logger virus. A way to prevent this is to of course get a security token. Also you can always type your pass somewhere other than the log-in screen then copy and paste it when you go to log-in. That way there is no way to keylog what you are typing, since it is just key-logging whats on the XIV screen.

Also make sure the e-mail you use for XIV is always different than your regular pass, because you will always have to verify the new IP address being used via your e-mail.

Only way your 1st part is true is if xivpads is triggering this. And it's not a local pc keylogger issue in the 1st place. And it's happening with accounts using security tokens. And on Pcs/LANs that are clean and secured.

[Moth]

I've heard that just simply visiting any of the RMT sites can put your computer at risk of being infected with key-logger virus. A way to prevent this is to of course get a security token. Also you can always type your pass somewhere other than the log-in screen then copy and paste it when you go to log-in. That way there is no way to keylog what you are typing, since it is just key-logging whats on the XIV screen.

Also make sure the e-mail you use for XIV is always different than your regular pass, because you will always have to verify the new IP address being used via your e-mail.

[Sadique]

Because prior the the head start was beta and, IIRC, logging into the game from another IP was considered a violation of the NDA unless it could be proven otherwise.

this makes sense i suppose, they should have just left it on though. It was a big inconvienient but this wouldnt be a problem if they had unless the hackers can guess your secret question

[GomE]

SE have taken some action on RMT. Personally I think they have done more than just banning RMT spammers. I discover why the game is design this way I think.


The retainer is feature is not to avoid AFK market because it can be fix with just and Auction House. The retainer is there so that it keeps whoever is making the most money in the market anonymous to protect players risking being hacked and gold stolen.

Only a few bucks for selling drops from mobs, quest reward gill, no gill from mobs etcs. Generally preventing easy farming gill so that it's hard for RMT to farm gold. (I know it makes our life a living hell in the game but i like i. It gives the money value instead of how many 0's do u have after the 9). But guess now how are they making gill ? From the market and hacking.

I just want to say that as a community in this game, we have some responsibility too. SE have a lot to deal with not just RMT. So why don't we help out? They gave us the "Report cheat" feature"

[GomE]

For example today I just farm 10,000 shards + ore. I'm leveling my G.Smith + Weaver and I'm a 34 MNK. It took me 10+ hours to do it (I took break in between of course). There's this one guy I saw that is farming as long as I'm even more efficient that I'm. I checked his profile and he's a 10 PUG with 16Miner. I think he farmed atleast 100k worths of shards if he mananged to sell them (30g per piece currently in my server). I don't think anyone would do that for 10hours straight others than you need it for your proffession. Even if you wanted to get some quick gill from market I
ll understand. But 10hours ? Level 10? Really ?? I just reported him with a sincere suspicion.

As a community we have to keep an eye out for farmer, what is selling greatly in the market, and who's farming em. Not saying whoever farm is a farmer, but 10 hours, you guys know who to suspect and whos not anyway lol. They hurt the market too... really..

[rabbitzero]

ll understand. But 10hours ? Level 10? Really ?? I just reported him with a sincere suspicion. .

There was a post on reddit from a guy who admitted to botting gathering skills. He lets it run constantly when he's not doing other stuff. He was unapologetic, bragging, and so deserving to be banned. His excuse for why it wasn't wrong was "square makes it possible, so it's not exploiting". He even used the "if you don't lock your door, you deserve to be robbed" 'logic'.

Using password/login combinations from other sites is bad, you can buy huge lists of stolen ones, for pretty cheap, and do with them what you like. People seem to not believe this, and blame Square, but notice how this really started when people started talking about how popular the game is, and how many people are playing. Not to mention how hard it is for most players to make gil at cap, while bots can farm over and over. They saw a market, and pounced.

[ShinrinCole]

There are plenty of stuff you can do to keep hackers out of your account, one is get a security token. (Wish my WoW one worked with FFXIV) If you have smart phone or another phone or device, you can get it free, or cough up a few dollars and get one. Other mesurements are, change your password every month, you don't have to, but it makes them harder to hack. Second use a more secure browser like Chrome or Firefox. DON'T use IE, worse security ever! download addons like No Script (FF)/Not Script(Chrome) and Ad block plus. this minimizes the chance to get keyloggers, and virus. Also get a good free Virus program like AVG or Avira, in fact I've known Avira picks up viruses better than programs you can by like McAfee's. Also update your windows every patch tuesday and keep your windows defender up to date as well. Even this won't give you 100% protection, but 99% of the time I never got a virus.