My friend was hacked while logged in

[Tahldon]

What I don't get is why RMT would want to do this... stealing gil directly from players actually harms their own business. Why would anyone buy from them if RMT could just steal it back again?

Interesting question you propose here. It doesn't really make sense to me either; however, in the face of SE combating their other various routes of gaining gil abnormally, something like this doesn't seem to far off... But like some people have said here, it seems a little unusual for them to just blatantly attack players who are actively playing the game. Not only that, they did it to a large number and not just a handful.

But, I must say, I'm pretty impressed with how fast the Dev team jumped to stop this issue from ensnaring more victims. Though, there were people in the middle of stuff who got the short end (Sorry to hear about that guy who lost 9 animal fat in a synth. Ouch.) Nonetheless, legal action has gotten involved now. Hopefully that'll deter further attempts to cause chaos later on. But one can only hope, of course.

[Orsnoire]

Until now there was no real reason to ever put your gil on your retainer... it's not like it should be possible for anyone to steal it. Hell there's no reason why the retainer would be more secure either... if they can hack your character they can probably hack your retainer.

What I don't get is why RMT would want to do this... stealing gil directly from players actually harms their own business. Why would anyone buy from them if RMT could just steal it back again?

That it harms their own business is not at all true.

Steal from the players and sell it back to them...

[Zakalwe]

That it harms their own business is not at all true.

Steal from the players and sell it back to them...

Exactly. They already do it with the key loggers they insert when gil buyers visit their websites so why not this too?

[MichuAmane]

I hope this actually discourages people from using RMT. Rather clever sell you the gil then take the gil .. now that's profit margins! Note to Se: how about we get some real coding going on and not just any old person off the street who seems super leet . I personally know someone who could code circles around what has been given to us.

[Grefia]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...24#post1536024

[JayCommon]

I'll put it out there, plain and simple. I've said it in another thread, may as well here. Even your retainer gil was not safe. Doesn't matter if you had it stored or not, any gil you had was VULNERABLE.

According to the most recent statement by Yoshi-P, gil in retainers were excluded from this hack. So, your retainer gil was safe. In 20 pages of posts no one reported gil from their retainers missing. Only one person came close by saying he/she dumped gil into their retainer only to find out the hack hit him/her right before it processed.

[Dozer]

Holy cow! This sucks, guys. Sorry to all those who lost gil. If they try to take my gil they are in for a rude awakening... because I am dirt poor already. =/

[TeganLaron]

I just hope this begins to deter the people who buy from the gil sellers.

Before this the gil sellers were simply annoying spammers to most of us. Sure, their constant tells were frustrating, but they didn't really effect you overall. They almost seemed harmless. However now after this vile, clearly well planned and organized attack, we have all seen what these people are really capable of. They aren't there to help you, as a way to just give you a little in game boost, they are nothing more than parasites and we need to eradicate them from this game.

Square-Enix can only do so much, ultimately it comes down to us. They operate on supply and demand. So if we stop demanding, they stop supplying.

[Pendragon72]

Bump

just when you think things could not get worse

[SynMaris]

Are you people using Authenticators? If not, you should be.