Quote Originally Posted by Mhyrria View Post
He prolly bought gil or went to those hack this game site.
This is a fallacy i see thrown about a lot. While it's certainly possible, the majority of hacking comes from people re-using passwords they use elsewhere on the net.

Say you're a member of CuteLittlePuppies.com (I dunno if that's a real site ) - and you use the same username and password there and you do on FF14. CuteLittlePuppies.com gets hacked, and all the user details stolen. Those details are then sold online to criminal groups.

Criminal groups then try a dictionary attack on the FF14 servers, testing out all the username/password combos from their bought dictionary - a small number of them end up yielding successful logins, and these become the hacked accounts. Most recent MMOs (notably GW2) have suffered the same problem, because the strategy seems to work.