SE are you okay with this?

[C-croft]

So he hacked it, you got it back. He immediately hacked it again, you got it back. He hacked it a 3rd time?

Dude, stop going to bot/gil buying websites.

And for what it's worth, authenticators do about as much for account security as a T-shirt will stop bullets.

Really? I have yet to hear of one person getting hacked that had an authenticator.

[Alcyon_Densetsu]

Really? I have yet to hear of one person getting hacked that had an authenticator.

Happened just a few days ago, lots of people being hacked while in-game. They shutdown the servers because of that. There are glaring exploits server side in this game, sadly. Security is nowhere near acceptable for AAA MMORPG from one of the biggest companies in the gaming industry.
—> http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ountermeasures
(sticky topic by Yoshi on this very forum)

Complemented by this player-made topic: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...hile-logged-in

Also, authenticators are useless when the SQL/server side is badly secured, and the memory/exe on the client side wasn't even encrypted at all (sessions ID were written in plain without protection for instance, dunno if they changed that yet). An authenticator is just one layer of security, certainly not the be-all and end-all of protecting data or access.

[C-croft]

Happened just a few days ago, lots of people being hacked while in-game. They shutdown the servers because of that. There are glaring exploits server side in this game, sadly. Security is nowhere near acceptable for AAA MMORPG from one of the biggest companies in the gaming industry.
—> http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ountermeasures
(sticky topic by Yoshi on this very forum)

Complemented by this player-made topic: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...hile-logged-in

Also, authenticators are useless when the SQL/server side is badly secured, and the memory/exe on the client side wasn't even encrypted at all (sessions ID were written in plain without protection for instance, dunno if they changed that yet). An authenticator is just one layer of security, certainly not the be-all and end-all of protecting data or access.

While it is true regarding SE's end of things. I have yet to hear about an authenticator account being hacked. Assuming there was no session id jacking going on.

[DragonFlyy]

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The hack that let people steal gil from inside the game has nothing to do with the authenticator. The session "hack" as far as I know was addressed by making the session inactive as soon as you were in game.

[FF2GO]

Really? I have yet to hear of one person getting hacked that had an authenticator.

I have had an authenticator on several games including Wow, Rift, and now FFXIV and not once was Hacked. I had a friend who was hacked on Wow and they did not have an authenticator. Your statement about authenticators doing about as much for account security as a T-shirt will for bullets is false. It adds an extra layer of security that most hackers will not even try to mess with because it is too much work. They resort to easily/lightly guarded accounts without authenticators because it is less work and easier to hack.

Btw C-croft I was referring to the person who said authenticators provide little to no security, not you, sorry.