Jellyflower Wrote: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.I'll continue reading the rest after I respond to this.
A 1 out of 100 chance of me dying? 99 empty slots on a revolver, 99 chances of receiving eternal wealth, and only 1 chance of death? You're damn right I'll take those odds. Unless the game is rigged, and the person purposely set the next shot to be the one bullet, or actually put more than 1, I won't be getting that bullet. The comparison isn't very valid though, because you don't know exactly what % chance there is of this existing. For all you know, it could be .001%, in which case your odds would be 1 bullet and 100,000 empty slots.
Hey, guess what, I also have less than a 1% chance of winning the lotto if I go out and play right now. Does this mean that if I go out and buy a ticket, that small chance of me winning will come true? Is it possible? Sure, the possibility may be there. However, the chance of it happening is so insignificant that it might as well never exist at all.
I'd have a better chance of getting hit by lightning while on the beach during a shark attack than winning the lotto from 1 ticket alone.
Jellyflower Wrote:But since you probably have nothing much to lose, why would hackers even spend their time on you? Empty threat.
From what I understand, this "hacker" is targeting whoever he or she wants, regardless of how much is on the character itself. As for "nothing to lose", of course I wouldn't want to lose my Corsair. It's not as if I'm so poor either, I certainly have a nice collection of valuable items. I don't have billions in raw mesos, but you could fetch a pretty penny if you sold off everything I had. I'm sure someone who goes around taking accounts gets personal enjoyment just from the thought of destroying everything someone has worked for.
Who are you to decide my accounts worth? If we're playing by your logic, you've no idea what I have in my account. For all you know, I could be the actual owner of Fangblade, and I've been playing on other characters in secret. The chance is certainly there, right? You don't know for sure, but just because the chance exists then it may just be true. Can you prove that I'm not Fangblade?
I'm inviting this hacker to show me what they're made of. It won't happen, and this is something I'm certain of. This "hacker" can take me head on if they want. I'd piss my pants if I lost all my hard work on my account, but I'd give my respect to the person for taking my challenge and proving me wrong. For teaching me that I am never safe no matter what I do.
Jellyflower Wrote: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)
Even more reason to come at me then. The last time I changed my password was in about 2007 or so. If your hypothesis is correct, then I'm simply a fish in a barrel, waiting for my eventual demise. Your personal conclusion has been something brought up countless times. It's not something hard to think up of, nor a unique idea. Lots of people reach that conclusion, that a list of accounts was simply leaked. It's impossible to prove such a thing exists, but also impossible to prove such a thing doesn't exist. It's a debate with no end, that's why these hack threads are pointless. They do nothing but arouse paranoia, and bring up walls that cannot be torn down. Because we're just going to be playing with your logic, that if there's even a 0.00000000000000001% chance of such an occurrence, because that chance exists then it cannot be denied.
Probatio diabolica.