2009-12-27, 09:47 PM
That's great, I see you're confident in security on Nexon's part. Then prove me wrong, tell me for those who were victimized sometime after the server upgrade (Dec. 2) that you have changed your password recently but still got hacked. And you cannot fall under the category that your password and email have been compromised or changed as well. Pin changed or not does not matter since they can pin crack and change it easily anyway.
I agree this thread is merely collecting data and trying to put up preventive measures in case of catastrophic event. Nothing is impossible, especially in the branch of electronic theft. Data is managed by real people, people who are in charge of data handling can have access to your data. Even if you're 99% sure you're safe, or you're firm on 99% of hacked incidents are player's fault, you cannot seclude the remaining 1%. If you were giving a chance of eternal wealth at a game of Russian Roulette with 1 bullet loaded in an imaginary 100 casing revolver, you wouldn't do it I guarantee. Just because it didn't happen to you doesn't mean it's not existent. I will say this again this is based on speculation, laugh and mock all you want. It doesn't hurt to change your password now but if you're warmly challenging the hacker, then be my guest and do whatever you want. But since you probably have nothing much to lose, why would hackers even spend their time on you? Empty threat.
There are endless possibilities to how something like this happens. People claim I don't have a basis or a start to anything. Well by cases of elimination, since I strongly believe in my theory, it should be easy to debunk this farce should it be the case. It is hard to prove something but rather easy to disprove, and this is the route I'm taking. I understand there will be trolls and false positive responses, but what I want is just raw data and see if the road is even clear based on first sampling. You can have your own judgment, I will have mine.
Hypothesis: Those who were hacked had not changed their password in the past 6 months or longer.
Your conclusion: You got keylogged, phished, social engineered, shared your account (so stolen), stolen by someone who seen you typed in your info at home/work/public
My own pending conclusion (if data supports):
List of leaked Nexon account info exists
(I suspect only ID and passwords (or possibly pins) are obtained, characters may be linked to different database and was not part of the list, hence it's harder to pinpoint specific 'golden' targets)
I agree this thread is merely collecting data and trying to put up preventive measures in case of catastrophic event. Nothing is impossible, especially in the branch of electronic theft. Data is managed by real people, people who are in charge of data handling can have access to your data. Even if you're 99% sure you're safe, or you're firm on 99% of hacked incidents are player's fault, you cannot seclude the remaining 1%. If you were giving a chance of eternal wealth at a game of Russian Roulette with 1 bullet loaded in an imaginary 100 casing revolver, you wouldn't do it I guarantee. Just because it didn't happen to you doesn't mean it's not existent. I will say this again this is based on speculation, laugh and mock all you want. It doesn't hurt to change your password now but if you're warmly challenging the hacker, then be my guest and do whatever you want. But since you probably have nothing much to lose, why would hackers even spend their time on you? Empty threat.
There are endless possibilities to how something like this happens. People claim I don't have a basis or a start to anything. Well by cases of elimination, since I strongly believe in my theory, it should be easy to debunk this farce should it be the case. It is hard to prove something but rather easy to disprove, and this is the route I'm taking. I understand there will be trolls and false positive responses, but what I want is just raw data and see if the road is even clear based on first sampling. You can have your own judgment, I will have mine.
Hypothesis: Those who were hacked had not changed their password in the past 6 months or longer.
Your conclusion: You got keylogged, phished, social engineered, shared your account (so stolen), stolen by someone who seen you typed in your info at home/work/public
My own pending conclusion (if data supports):
List of leaked Nexon account info exists
(I suspect only ID and passwords (or possibly pins) are obtained, characters may be linked to different database and was not part of the list, hence it's harder to pinpoint specific 'golden' targets)