How is SE handling Hacked Accounts.

[Pavise]

In all honesty OP I'm not sympathetic with your plight at all due to the fact that pretty much everyone who's ever had an account hacked has gone to a malicious site with intent on buying in game currency.

[Ryujin_Ketu]

In all honesty OP I'm not sympathetic with your plight at all due to the fact that pretty much everyone who's ever had an account hacked has gone to a malicious site with intent on buying in game currency.

It's posts like these that really show how ignorant and ridiculously stupid some people can be. It makes zero sense.

"with intent on buying in game currency"...really?...REALLY?

Just stop posting you troll.

[Pavise]

It's posts like these that really show how ignorant and ridiculously stupid some people can be. It makes zero sense.

"with intent on buying in game currency"...really?...REALLY?

Just stop posting you troll.

I've never had an account in any game hacked at all, but I've witnessed friends who've done the above and have had their accounts hacked multiple times on a fair few games.

You are the ignorant one for ignoring plain facts right in front of you since someone who is safe and doing the proper thing is NEVER going to get their account hacked.

[Krimzin]

In all honesty OP I'm not sympathetic with your plight at all due to the fact that pretty much everyone who's ever had an account hacked has gone to a malicious site with intent on buying in game currency.

You know its usually the pattern for a person to accuse someone of something because they have done it themselves. As I said in my post, I have never been to a RMT site, nor will I. In game currency is easy to make buying it defeats the purpose of playing the game IMO. Not to wish ill upon anyone, but I would LMFAO if you got hacked. Karma is indeed a bitch.

[Morthis]

I've never had an account in any game hacked at all, but I've witnessed friends who've done the above and have had their accounts hacked multiple times on a fair few games.

You are the ignorant one for ignoring plain facts right in front of you since someone who is safe and doing the proper thing is NEVER going to get their account hacked.

That's a rather silly argument. For one, you're drawing connections that may not necessarily exist. Secondly, even if the connection does exist, that doesn't mean it's the only way it can happen.

I think the most common mistake people make is re-using their password/login. If you have the same login and password for a fan site as you do for FF14 itself, prepare to lose your account sooner or later. You shouldn't re-use passwords at all of course, but doing it for fan sites is especially bad.

[Cenewulf]

And to the OP I hope your account gets recovered dude.

[Seig345]

I disagree that this automatically means the OP tried to buy gil, blanket statements like that are rarely ever a good idea to use in constructive discussion, but I also fail to see the issue people have with SE over this situation. Their responsibility for your account security stops at their servers that have your info on them.

If someone gets ahold of your username and password by any means other than hacking into SE's system, that's more or less on you. If anything, the fault lies with the 'hacker' in this example by choosing to commit the action in the first place, but if a website can have an embedded keylogger on it, it stands to reason it's possible to pair that info with the IP you connected to that site from, and spoof it when logging into your game account.

If SE's own security becomes compromised, then sure, it's on them. But until that announcement is made, I'd assume they have plenty of people phoning in for CS, and since they've already provided two different means of accessing a way to increase your account's security, hacked accounts aren't going to be bumped up the waiting list.

[Lyris-Lyanther]

Just out of curiousity, how many of those who have been hacked are on computer and how many are on ps3? Id like to see how those numbers broke down.

[Crushbone-Hammerfist]

In all honesty OP I'm not sympathetic with your plight at all due to the fact that pretty much everyone who's ever had an account hacked has gone to a malicious site with intent on buying in game currency.

There were a whole bunch of people who got keylogged from an ad on ZAM when it was still called Allakhazam. So it's not always a currency selling site.

That said, it amazes me that people still go to Allakhazam. And this ffxivdb one seemed sketchy from the very beginning, it was just being inserted in way too many threads to be natural. Not saying that's where it came from, but there's a reason I only view those sites on a tablet or phone, and never use their registration links.

[Perzival]

In all honesty OP I'm not sympathetic with your plight at all due to the fact that pretty much everyone who's ever had an account hacked has gone to a malicious site with intent on buying in game currency.

Actually, it's the repeated use of the same password. Usually sites like Curse or PSN (used those examples because it actaully happened a few years ago) get hacked and their user list and passwords get distributed to the hacker community. So if you use the same email/username/password, they have a scripter just enter in all previously known combinations until they gain access.

So how about a little sympathy before you spread your hate.