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[DivineOracle]

Wishful thinking. Do you actually have proof for any your assertions?

Looks like you never played FFXI. it's common knowledge. Do you honestly think RMT don't infect their sites? In fact a few years ago a known gill seller to the rmt ended up getting his account hacked shortly after. he even admitted he was doing it..in tells when i asked what happend, not bluntly but his subtle hints gave it away. due to him saying he was talking to one of them and when i asked why he gave me the silent treatment, and then he said something about his screen going black and having to restart and then he lost his account, i don't remember full details. but it's the same ending. Sometimes proof is simply common sense.

[luciferbelmont]

To be fair nothing is a hundred percent secure, whether that security is provided by a company or no matter how strong or powerful your password is. If someone wants to hack your account they are going to hack it. Even if your password is different from everything else they'll do what they can. Blaming the company is the same as people blaming players. Even if they add stronger security, people who are willing to get gil or take over your account will still find a way. You want the real culprit then I would suggest actually pointing the finger at the right direction, towards the hackers. We should know by now with all the hackings that have gone on via ubisoft, nintendo, sony, steam, se, riot, exc. That nothing is 100 percent secure.

Best thing i could say besides using a different password from everything else, is to by game time cards at a store. Don't wanna risk loosing account info via credit or debit card.

[Ispen]

This is why everyone thinks hes lieing. There is no doubt he got hacked. But i guarantee you he did not have a security authenticator or he didnt have it set up properly

If someone wants to hack you they're going to hack you but most of these gil sellers will hit the authenticator wall and just move onto the next one cause they will be wasting time/money trying to bypass it.

[Haru]

You would be amazed at the amount of lazy people display and would still buy gill. it is indeed a primary cause of account hacking but it is silly to assume every person hacked buys gill. but the people who actually do it will never admit it for obvious reasons.

What people don't seem to realize is it's the same for people selling them the gill as well. they have to visit those sites to do so and without people selling them gill they woulnd't have enough for people to buy. and wouldn't be people buying, this vicious cycle is why RMT are this aggressive. it's players who help them fault as much as them.

I know it was kind of like omg.. gil is worth how much? 10k for $6.50 on day 1. now its 500k for that price lol XD.
How many people got tempted to sell their 1.0 gil stash for a few thousdand dollars and are now getting hacked?

[Eternal_Arcadia]

This is why everyone thinks hes lieing. There is no doubt he got hacked. But i guarantee you he did not have a security authenticator or he didnt have it set up properly

How exactly could it not be setup properly, I was unable to log into the game unless I inputed the security codes every single time I wanted to log in. Otherwise Id get a message saying something along the lines of my password being wrong. My token was attached to my account properly, and I was using it since launch.

[LunarEmerald]

They aren't magicians. They can't pull passwords out of thin air. They have to get it from somewhere.

[d4rkie]

@Eternal_Arcadia : your character is still there http://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...acter/2281678/ <-- either that, or the lodestone updates way too slow

@OP your too, http://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...acter/4082719/ so I guess it's salvageable.

hacked accounts are not fun. @Eternal_Arcadia, if you used an app-based token, check your email - the password to reset that was sent there. if that one is compromised - you have your answer. @OP - best of luck with recovering your account. I'd post in the questions to the producer thread about hacked accounts and how they're planning to mitigate that. my account is OK for now, so better someone affected post that question

[Makior72]

Update: after recovering my account through the automated process and checking back on mog station about an hour later, my deleted characters have been restored and I appear to have all my gear (according to my wife anyway, ill check it myself when I get off work) so either they have an automated system to restore deleted characters of suspended accounts, or they DO have customer service on weekends they just don't answer the phone. Anyway, I'm glad this got sorted out pretty quickly but I seriously want my security token to hurry up and get here.

[Celestine]

If someone wants to hack you they're going to hack you but most of these gil sellers will hit the authenticator wall and just move onto the next one cause they will be wasting time/money trying to bypass it.

The only way to get by an authenticator is to hack Squares authenticator servers. If that happened, we would be hearing a lot more people saying they got hacked with a security token. Now using Occam's Razor, whats the most likely explanation? That he didnt have an authenticator.

[DivineOracle]

Update: after recovering my account through the automated process and checking back on mog station about an hour later, my deleted characters have been restored and I appear to have all my gear (according to my wife anyway, ill check it myself when I get off work) so either they have an automated system to restore deleted characters of suspended accounts, or they DO have customer service on weekends they just don't answer the phone. Anyway, I'm glad this got sorted out pretty quickly but I seriously want my security token to hurry up and get here.

Well grats, i am very glad to see you got your characters back. just make sure you take extra security from now on, the token does not take long to arrive,. it's nice to see not all hope is lost. but to better help make sure you can determine any SE sites. They also work by making fake sites where you can put in your info. be sure to look at the URL carefully. and bookmark the real ones.