My friend was hacked while logged in

[Magnesium02]

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gues they are shutting this down fast

[Ryuko]

Edit: I've edited my post to remove my speculation about what could possibly be allowing this exploit.

[wlakiz]

sound like it might be a buffer overflow.. they are actually buying your marketboard items but overflowed the amount so it went negative?

[Bloodwillow]

screen shot your FC chest tonight, and find a nice rural zone to home in.

Yeah the leader checked and it's all there for now ...

[alien52]

Welp it can't be backdoor remote access because this is happening live while still in game. People are sitting there watching live message popping up saying insufficient gil. The only option while having remote access and still go undetected is by disabling a feature where the mouse and keyboard is not synced with the victim. Even then you'll be able to see them move your character. This is obviously a hole in the game and/or security flaw through server.

[Livi]

At the meantime, stay away from zones with a marketboard, just to be sure.

The lalafells did man... I swear.. I am taking serious risk telling you guys... get the word out before its too late.

That's literally racist xD

[Espi]

Can anyone confirm that this happened to any PS3 players?

[pochte]

pretty sure if they're ip sniffing the platform doesn't matter.

[Alcyon_Densetsu]

Seeing that:

• Lag and latency issues are evidently a huge problem, more felt than in any other AAA MMORPG on the market (even compared to cheap F2P titles), to the extent that it ruins the fun for many players;
• Datacenter/SQL security seems to be direly flawed, to the extent of massive hacking almost to an unprecedented level (no less than 380 billion gils generated out of thin air within a month, as reported by SE; and now this retainer bell hack; among many other issues);

this game may have the worst network programming ever for a MMORPG made by a major studio/publisher.

It's really sad, because on other aspects (gameplay, class design, 3D artistry, music, lore, scenario…), the game is arguably good to excellent when compared to other titles.

With Electronic Arts and Activision, Square Enix is one of the biggest companies in the gaming industry; they have a financial power to hire talents and fund projects that most others don't even dream of. How can such a huge company as SE not have some of the best network programmers in the world? How can their network team fail so big on the key aspect of a game, namely the network coding of the reboot of their flagship Massively Multiplayer Online RPG; no less than a Final Fantasy canonic title, their most valuable IP?

Mind-boggling. Such a shame.

[Kosmos992k]

Can anyone confirm that this happened to any PS3 players?

Yes, a member of my FC had an insuffient gil message pop when they were not in a transaction or market screen - in other words the transaction was attempted behind the scenes without any interaction by the player - and they are on PS3.