2010-01-05, 07:18 AM
I came back from a vacation to find my mule account got hacked, somewhere between the v.80 patch and today when I finally got back online. No mules were deleted, and the hacker only took some of the more valuable scrolls, boss pots (apples, power elixirs, etc), refined/raw metals and gems, and (for some reason) every bit of mediocore eq off my noob nightwalker, but left her so-so collection of throwing stars intact.
No other account was touched, and I was lucky that I had half of my scroll stockpile on another account waiting to be sold.
I've always been pretty careful, low risk sort of person when it comes to computers, though I'm not exactly paranoid about security. This is the first time I've been hacked, and I've never shared account info. A grand total of 2 other people know the igns on the hacked account; 1 was with me on my vacation, and the other I've known for years now and have not had a falling out with. What I haven't done though, is change the password/pin since I created the account. It's registered with a gmail address, which is also linked to my facebook, but neither have been messed with as far as I can tell. My contact email has always been set to be invisible on fb (I wonder how well that works), nor have I joined any maplestory groups there.
I've changed my passwords/pin on the account, as well as on my email and fb, but....I don't really know where to go from here. I guess I could keep using the mule account, or I could move what's left to a new one - I just don't know right now.
So there you go. I don't really care if you take it as "just another routine hacking with leaked info" or as some example of a new hacking method; all I know is that this is a pretty miserable way to end a holiday.
No other account was touched, and I was lucky that I had half of my scroll stockpile on another account waiting to be sold.
I've always been pretty careful, low risk sort of person when it comes to computers, though I'm not exactly paranoid about security. This is the first time I've been hacked, and I've never shared account info. A grand total of 2 other people know the igns on the hacked account; 1 was with me on my vacation, and the other I've known for years now and have not had a falling out with. What I haven't done though, is change the password/pin since I created the account. It's registered with a gmail address, which is also linked to my facebook, but neither have been messed with as far as I can tell. My contact email has always been set to be invisible on fb (I wonder how well that works), nor have I joined any maplestory groups there.
I've changed my passwords/pin on the account, as well as on my email and fb, but....I don't really know where to go from here. I guess I could keep using the mule account, or I could move what's left to a new one - I just don't know right now.
So there you go. I don't really care if you take it as "just another routine hacking with leaked info" or as some example of a new hacking method; all I know is that this is a pretty miserable way to end a holiday.