My friend was hacked while logged in

[Valcro]

No wonder I kept getting a "Insufficent gil" message earlier. Got it several times everytime I used the bell in town. I only have 250k gil on me so apparently this hack or bug will only take your money if you have millions laying around. Wow. Just wow.

[Ryuko]

No wonder I kept getting a "Insufficent gil" message earlier. Got it several times everytime I used the bell in town. I only have 250k gil on me so apparently this hack or bug will only take your money if you have millions laying around. Wow. Just wow.

It seems like they will only hit you if you have 2mil+. I tend to alt-tab a lot while in town -- I sat on the Summoning Bell AND the Market Boards for a few minutes while looking up information about different recipes online. I never saw the "Insufficient Gil" message and haven't lost any money (to my knowledge... too scared to look at my retainers), but I only have about 1mil so I might be 'safe'... for now...

[Riepah]

Didn't happen to me but I'm hearing about it all over. Staying away from the market board / retainer bell until this is fixed, and I hope everyone gets their money back fast. It's crazy that this could happen in the first place.

[ReyGaspar]

Time to convert all my gils into Allagan pieces.

[Wobi]

My friend was logged in at the Summoning Bell. He went afk with 3+ million gil and came back with the gil counter displaying the same. However whenever he tried to do anything involving gil he got an error stating he didn't have enough.

When he reopened the Summoning Bell his counter instantly fixed itself bringing him down to sub 500k. His purchase history suddenly said he had bought an item for 3 million exactly while the item was worth 5gil. Others in our linkshell were suddenly reporting the same issue.


It seems someone or a group is forcibly pulling money from people using the summoning bell.

Please fix this and return my friend's gil.

We talking AFK at bell clicked on it to circumvent auto-logout feature? Because if that is how it happened I got an easy fix for everyone til SE sorts it out.

[cynralic]

two transactions that hit me

[Hysterior]

Japanese boards start reporting the same:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...94%9F%EF%BC%9B

[Espi]

RMT runnin wild! No doubt it will only get worse as we get closer and closer to 2.1 and the gil sink that will be housing.

Anyone lose money off of their retainers or is this just what you have on your character?

[Zaels]

Yep. And stupid people will still continue to buy gil and fund things like this.

[Zakalwe]

Yep. And stupid people will still continue to buy gil and fund things like this.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if this hack only worked against gil buyers...

But seriously, we can thank such members of our community (may they soon be ex-) for inviting vile organized crime elements into our midst.