My friend was hacked while logged in

[Varos]

why would anyone leave so much money on their person?? its like walking around in the real world with 1m in your purse or wallet... 0.o since beta i have utilized my 2 retainers to their fullest. one is a savings account, one is a spending account. i rarely ever have more than 20k on myself. looks like ill have to truck it to the inn room from now on to talk to them -_-

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.

[joshsecret]

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.

guess i read the dev reply wrong then. the way i saw it was that retainer money was unaffected, much like the last ban hammer where crafters had their money on hand reduced but retainers were unaffected. i chalked it up to retainers being on a different server/more secure. regardless, im glad i have always and will always treat retainers as a checking/saving accounts. and again why would anyone need all of their money in their pocket?? i find it easier to blow through money faster if i dont store it... just like real life!

[Freakiie]

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This hack/exploit was done by making the server think your client sent commands to buy stuff of the MB. By this logic it's not all that hard to send a command to the server that withdrew all gil from your retainers first. Whether this was done or not I don't know, but considering what they've done it seems well within the realms of possibilities.

And the reason why I run around with all my cash is because I can quite simply put. I dislike constantly having to run to the retainer when I see a good deal and I can control my spendings pretty well so there should be no reason for me to dump my cash on a retainer.