cRPG security situation: change your passwords

[Smoothrich]

In the past week, several members of LLJK and ATS have had their accounts hijacked and heirlooms traded away.  No one seems sure what happened here, but I think there should be a general warning for everyone to change your passwords immediately before it happens to someone else.   Hopefully whoever doing this is stopped soon and cRPG can go back to being the trusting, loving community we all play for.

[Goretooth]

happened to me two hours ago.

[Felix]

I recall admins saying that this kind of business is very easily tracked - so, no worries. Heirlooms will be returned and hijackers will be punished. 
Just make sure to pass this matter directly to admins.

[Smoothrich]

Yeah I heard, and two of our LLJK players, seemingly randomly chosen, had the same shit happen to them.  From what I understand, everyone's looms will be refunded to them eventually by the devs.   But if there's been a password breach, everyone better do what they can to protect themselves.

[Seawied]

Thanks for the heads up.

[Leman_Russ]

Yep, logged on for the first time in a while and all my stuff poofed lol.

[7000bc]

LEEEEEEEEEEEEMAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN YOU'RE ALIVE!

[Vibe]

Hm bad stuff. Not possible that it's only NA related, right?

[Jacko]

Hm bad stuff. Not possible that it's only NA related, right?

Hah, it's actually quite possible that it's Only NA related. Stupid 'mericans.

[MurtaghOLD]

I got one player in CN as well, his heirloom has all been traded, not by himself.

[ViolentCrimes]

Nevermind

[Classical]

Hah, it's actually quite possible that it's Only NA related. Stupid 'mericans.

Stupid 'mericans indeed, but an interesting concept none the less. Perhaps Obama hacked into the accounts?

I would doubt that whoever is doing this is discriminating against NA players, but rather specific players/clans.

[okiN]

It's been happening to players from all over the place. From what I've heard, I don't think it's a password breach, but there's never any harm in changing. Either way, just sit tight and wait for the devs to sort it out. chadz finishes his exams today, so hopefully that will give him more time to deal with this problem.

[ivan13]

All greetings. At me all things Masterwork, and 1500000 gold were gone. What to do.
BIA_Slepoy.
Forgive for English.

[Adam_Bomb]

Hacking doesnt payoff good!

One day i came up with an idea to try to break into someones account. It was a day after Market was realeased on cRPG mode.
Me, GDaemon and Pizdogryz were trying to break into some account by using random passwords.
After some of easy passwords like (123, strategus, chadz, donkey, cRPG) we tried same password as login names and it worked.
We were shocked!
In the beginning we tought that it was just random person who used same psw as login name.
After some time we were breaking into even more accounts by using that kind of passwords (most of time normall nickname worked even withought clan tag)

After few days of breaking into accounts we made decision to move all heirloomed items onto our account.
Ofcourse we were not that stupid to move them to our account on the beginning so we used inactive account where we were storing that items.
After that we were trading items to our accounts and rest of the items we were selling on market to dodge chadz banhammer ^^.

The next day we realized that our mission failed and we were banned on all cRPG servers. In the beginning i talked to chadz and to be honest i was plaing a fool and tried to trick him
but after a while i admited to say the truth and i told chadz how we managed to break into that many accounts.

I want to apologize all clans that we'v hacked:

-ENG
-Fallen
-Pillagers
-STR
-Pecores

I know that it was really stupid, mindless and unhonorable but remember even person who killed someone comming out from prison after 25 years...
I know that i will met with comments like "fuc!@#" "perm" like GDaemon but i think so that You will consider that i admited to crime and chadz repaired hole in security system.

I think so that it will be warning for futhure to setup that kind of easy passwords.
I know that noone should even try or think about breaking other peoples accounts but i think so that there will be more peoples trying to earn money by easy way..
So i want to warn that hacking doesnt pay off good because justice will get You anyway its just a mattter of time, when chadz or some other admins will find out our sins in Database.

Human leanrs on their mistakes and we just learned that only honest and good work payoff not a hacking.
We wont ever do the same mistake!

I have hope that just a few peoples will atleast few peoples will consider my apologize!
I want to thanks to chadz for giving us a second chance even we did that kind of bad things wich is hacking.
I will face his finall decision even if it means permanent ban.

I want to apologize once again all defrauded peoples and i beg for lenient sentence.
I do really feels bad with what i did.
Hacking doesnt pay off!

EviLLoR

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