Any recent hacked accounts from Southperry users?

I was perfectly clear that us returning was completely conditional on improvement.

I wasn't trying to ask a trick question. Do you really see yourself never playing Maple Story again because of this? Wouldn't you rather play and get hacked than not play and get hacked?

That's exactly what they sent me. DEALING WITH ISSUES? NOT OUR STYLE.

I'm honestly sick and tired of this. If Nexon doesn't acknowledge there is a problem within one week, I'm deleting my accounts. I'll find another MMO.

I wasn't trying to ask a trick question. Do you really see yourself never playing Maple Story again because of this? Wouldn't you rather play and get hacked than not play and get hacked?

No, not at all. I've moved on to Dragonica because of this. I'm not going to keep playing and building toward what will inevitably end up benefiting someone else and leaving me feeling like crap. No thanks.

I wasn't trying to ask a trick question. Do you really see yourself never playing Maple Story again because of this? Wouldn't you rather play and get hacked than not play and get hacked?

No, I see myself never playing Maple again because it's a boring sack of pomegranate with no hope of ever evolving to anything better. I quit Maple almost seven months ago and have absolutely no interest in ever going back. The only reason I didn't delete my character is because it's "done" and occupying a very nice slot on the ranks, and I didn't want to waste it. Maple itself has nothing to interest me. It's an endless grind and once you've finished that it has no challenges, it has no story, it has no real goals you can even set for yourself and every day any goal you could've made is being made easier for the next generation, making it even more pointless to have spent all that effort to get something they're just going to hand out in six months.

This hacking has nothing to do with that opinion though, what I won't be doing is going back to any other Nexon game until this is resolved, because even though those may be decent and worth a try I don't feel like playing while there's a giant bullseye on my account's ability to have/use NX.

I've abandoned the whole leaving accounts logged in 24/7 in exchange for the spidey locks... by leaving the accounts logged in, we're giving Nexon more reason to ignore us, if the number of players logging in regularly drops by a large % then they have to acknowledge the problem to regain the numbers to convince investors to continue putting money behind them. I'm pretty much done with maple till these reports stop or Nexon states that there's a problem and what they plan to do to prevent anything like this from happening again. I may just log in every once in a while to see the new content but that's about it...

I was hacked back in September before this whole hacking wave began. Again, my account was secure and all that was missing were my 10 sets of steely, a crappy sauna robe, 4mill, and my NX was MTS'd. Not as strange as other peoples', but characters in other worlds with lots of money (and a transferrable zhelm at the time) wasn't even touched. A few days later I got a request to reset my password which I did not submit.

It basically led me to quit for a few months...but I completely sympathize with everyone out there. Nexon won't accept that it could be a security flaw on their end. Asia Soft admits when they're wrong and when they've fucked up and try to compensate users accordingly. I think it's part of the American idea of trying to maintain your public image. Look at Toyota and their accelerator problems...it took them months to accept that they fucked up and try and fix it. To me it seems like it will take the servers being crashed because of a security flaw to wake Nexon up. When your customers are in trouble, a good company would try and fix whatever is causing that trouble.

for Bellocan, there is a very clear time frame of account creation that is being hacked, July 07-feb 08, i should say, the people being hacked this week are feb 08 accounts. so it looks like they are just moving through the list as the date will soon be march 08 i assume. This is just a trend i have noticed, people have reported getting hacked on accounts of all ages. No one is safe.

for Bellocan, there is a very clear time frame of account creation that is being hacked, July 07-feb 08, i should say, the people being hacked this week are feb 08 accounts. so it looks like they are just moving through the list as the date will soon be march 08 i assume.

So accounts that are older than july 07 are safe? >.> any proof on this?

None.

Mine was 4.5 years old. Its just a current trend.

So accounts that are older than july 07 are safe? >.> any proof on this?

i said in general this is looking like a trend, no one is safe, please read my post again, people of all account ages are being hacked.

Yeah, no one is safe. My brother's account got hacked last night, yet the password nor pin was changed. All of his characters in Yellonde were stripped and left in the fm. The hacker was generous enough to leave one set of Bullets on his Gunslinger. WTP Nexon. F3

for Bellocan, there is a very clear time frame of account creation that is being hacked, July 07-feb 08, i should say, the people being hacked this week are feb 08 accounts. so it looks like they are just moving through the list as the date will soon be march 08 i assume. This is just a trend i have noticed, people have reported getting hacked on accounts of all ages. No one is safe.

Just to edit my post so I can quote you, my brother's account was created in April of 2008. I also created some mules in Broa on my brother's account for myself because I knew that my main account had a random b-day, so I'm unable to change the password. If I got hacked on my main account, it would be all over for me. Somehow though, the hacker didn't target any of my Broan mules that were loaded with gear and mesos. The hacker only stripped the Yellonde characters which were all created by my brother. These random hackings are escalating awkwardly.

I've abandoned the whole leaving accounts logged in 24/7 in exchange for the spidey locks... by leaving the accounts logged in, we're giving Nexon more reason to ignore us, if the number of players logging in regularly drops by a large % then they have to acknowledge the problem to regain the numbers to convince investors to continue putting money behind them. I'm pretty much done with maple till these reports stop or Nexon states that there's a problem and what they plan to do to prevent anything like this from happening again. I may just log in every once in a while to see the new content but that's about it...

I absolutely agree with this, and as of today, have done the same. Leaving Maplestory is like leaving a country you love that is being run by an inept and unsympathetic government, and staying logged in Maplestory 24/7 is doing nothing except exhausting processing power I could be using elsewhere. I'm just hoping that the lock method doesn't fail (like if the hackers hypothetically could bypass sign-in.) In the meantime, I'm done with Nexon until they show serious improvement, like acknowledging that they have a serious problem that is not due to the players' fault. I might not be back to Maple for a long time as a result.

Oh by the way, Better Business Bureau rebuttal and response

It has been two months and we're in the same place we were when all of this started. My account has not been compromised but there are constant reports of others who are not so fortunate. I am still very worried about this issue and Nexon has done nothing to resolve or acknowledge the situation even exists beyond responding to those who have already been hacked. There is no accountability or pro-activity on their part while people are losing or waiting to lose everything.

I'm glad to hear your account has not fallen victim to the recent scare. As information is gathered it will be distributed to the players through the forums and the Nexon.net website. Players are urged to keep watch for more news about game issues. Thank you, Nexon Support

So assuming this is true it means that two and a half months later they still have no information.

Oh by the way, Better Business Bureau rebuttal and response





So assuming this is true it means that two and a half months later they still have no information.

I wonder what they are going to write in response to my rebuttal. That response to you actually doesn't sound like a copy pasta template from their how-to-customer-service guide. Now back to the collective think tank, since Nexon doesn't have a clue.

Speaking of which, when the last major hacking epidemic occurred (power guard and no-delay) there was plenty of evidence in the form of forums online sharing the codes and tricks of the trade. I've been scanning the web for any tracing of new hacking sites, but have yet to have found anything that could be brought back to Nexon as proof that there is something going on.

This leads me to various train of thoughts that I want scrutinized: a.) if the breech were real, it only would be in the hands of a few, who won't release the source in order to continue their advantage. b.) there is information available online, but it is either in terminologies I'm unfamiliar with or a foreign language. c.) there is no breech, Nexon was right all along, and we're imagining everything, creating fear, uncertainty, and doubt for no reason.

I wonder what they are going to write in response to my rebuttal. That response to you actually doesn't sound like a copy pasta template from their how-to-customer-service guide. Now back to the collective think tank, since Nexon doesn't have a clue.

Speaking of which, when the last major hacking epidemic occurred (power guard and no-delay) there was plenty of evidence in the form of forums online sharing the codes and tricks of the trade. I've been scanning the web for any tracing of new hacking sites, but have yet to have found anything that could be brought back to Nexon as proof that there is something going on.

This leads me to various train of thoughts that I want scrutinized: a.) if the breech were real, it only would be in the hands of a few, who won't release the source in order to continue their advantage. b.) there is information available online, but it is either in terminologies I'm unfamiliar with or a foreign language. c.) there is no breech, Nexon was right all along, and we're imagining everything, creating fear, uncertainty, and doubt for no reason.

This is database hacking, not some PG pomegranate. It's a whole different level. It's criminal, no one is going to risk being identified just so some script kiddies can have their hax.

Also, since someone mentioned Ecko: http://pastebin.com/f332bc8b1

Also, since someone mentioned Ecko: http://pastebin.com/f332bc8b1

It's Irwin. Ahahahahaha.

Still haven't been hacked, just waiting for it.

I absolutely agree with this, and as of today, have done the same. Leaving Maplestory is like leaving a country you love that is being run by an inept and unsympathetic government, and staying logged in Maplestory 24/7 is doing nothing except exhausting processing power I could be using elsewhere. I'm just hoping that the lock method doesn't fail (like if the hackers hypothetically could bypass sign-in.) In the meantime, I'm done with Nexon until they show serious improvement, like acknowledging that they have a serious problem that is not due to the players' fault. I might not be back to Maple for a long time as a result.

Nooooo... If you find another decent MMO, let us know please (PM me! I stalk lurk these forums all the time ). I've just been lucky so far I guess, but if I do eventually get hacked, I won't bother rebuilding. Keeping some character on my account logged in almost 24/7 seems to be working I guess. I don't trust the "lock" password technique enough to leave my account vulnerable like that. It is irking to have to leave my computer on all the time because of some security flaw that nexon takes over 2 months to find, if they ever do and actually admit that it was THEIR fault.

And lol @ your alliance.

Nooooo... If you find another decent MMO, let us know please (PM me! I stalk lurk these forums all the time ). I've just been lucky so far I guess, but if I do eventually get hacked, I won't bother rebuilding. Keeping some character on my account logged in almost 24/7 seems to be working I guess. I don't trust the "lock" password technique enough to leave my account vulnerable like that. It is irking to have to leave my computer on all the time because of some security flaw that nexon takes over 2 months to find, if they ever do and actually admit that it was THEIR fault.

And lol @ your alliance.

I'll be back once Nexon shows improvement, Kim. In the meantime, I cannot and will not support the company when they are at fault for being negligent. It's just a matter of time at this point.

PM me anytime.

p.s. keep an eye on my accounts until Lova kicks them to make room.

It's Irwin. Ahahahahaha.

Still haven't been hacked, just waiting for it.

Yea well, I don't like him too much either, but he knows his stuff.

Well, one of my accounts got hacked. Fortunately, the most valuable thing taken was a 16 att dragon khanjar

It's kind of good this account got hacked, because my other account has much more on it. So I decided to add a special character to my account to secure it, and i'm probably not going to log back onto it until they fix this, or if they add the KMS adventurer updates- but that's probably not until summer, and hopefully they'll have fixed this by then.

Edit: I was looking at the dates, and there's definitely a pattern. I think that we can assume a few things because of this:

1)The nexon database is somehow ordered according to the date the account was created.

2)There's only one person or a small group of people doing this systematically. If they sort of go in order, that means they're organized.

We can't be certain that this is true, but it does seem realistic. From this information, we can assume that accounts before this area of time are safer- you can't assume you won't be hacked, but there's less of a chance. Don't let down your guard yet though, because either this is just a coincidence or they might double back for any accounts they missed.