2010-01-05, 11:04 PM
I've been lurking this thread for awhile now aswell as recent hacking simularities on other forums, and I must say I'm horrified how easily people are getting hacked. Being that I haven't been on Maple since the end of November, I thought my accounts were safe until this "crisis" was over. Today, I was informed that my HS mule was online a few days earlier and was unresponcive to guild members. The last time I had trained, I took the mesos the mule had gained and put them onto my main account. I usually never take the full suppy of mesos, usually rounding them to the mil, then leaving the rest on the mule incase I need to move it. After my guildmates asked me if I were on at that time, I had said no, and they told me the account had been on for quite a period of time. The info is only known by me and one other person. That person made an HS mule in Yellonde when it came out, and later xfered it to Windia. Being that he had two mules, he gave the other one to me in exchange for a world transfer to move the other mule.
Knowing what I do know about the recent hackings, I quickly logged on Maple to see if I could access my account. Much to my suprise, all the info was correct. The pass and pin were unchanged. I leave my mule at skelegons as a door mule, but it had logged on in the FM, with 100hp. Even more suprising, the equipment that belonged to the HS mule (Maplemas hat, clean sauna, snowshoes, and Maple Wisdom Staff) were still there, along with all of its potions, chair, and ETC items (which had everything from Lupin Erasers to forging materials were still there). The only thing missing were the few thousand mesos that were left on the account after I emptied it out a month earlier, giving it a total of zero mesos.
Shocked and relieved at the same time, I checked the accounts email (a hotmail account) to see if anything had been changed. The password was unchanged. The email had gone untouched since I had recieved the account. I quickly called the former owner who had told me the account was online and we reviewed the information together. There were no emails on the account, no deleted messages, no spam, completely clean. The secret question, account birthday, and address were changed. The former owner lives in Ohio, the address and zip code were changed to one in Illinois. Those were the only things changed.
Other than that, I still have the account, minus a few mesos. I have no idea why someone would bother hacking an account without cleaning it out, or changing the info. They could have at least got a few mil off equipment, potion, and ETC item sales. I really don't know if I should classify this as hacked, but it's something I had no control over. I ran a virus scan on the computers I logged on with the account, and they came back clean. Has this happened to anyone else? o-o
Knowing what I do know about the recent hackings, I quickly logged on Maple to see if I could access my account. Much to my suprise, all the info was correct. The pass and pin were unchanged. I leave my mule at skelegons as a door mule, but it had logged on in the FM, with 100hp. Even more suprising, the equipment that belonged to the HS mule (Maplemas hat, clean sauna, snowshoes, and Maple Wisdom Staff) were still there, along with all of its potions, chair, and ETC items (which had everything from Lupin Erasers to forging materials were still there). The only thing missing were the few thousand mesos that were left on the account after I emptied it out a month earlier, giving it a total of zero mesos.
Shocked and relieved at the same time, I checked the accounts email (a hotmail account) to see if anything had been changed. The password was unchanged. The email had gone untouched since I had recieved the account. I quickly called the former owner who had told me the account was online and we reviewed the information together. There were no emails on the account, no deleted messages, no spam, completely clean. The secret question, account birthday, and address were changed. The former owner lives in Ohio, the address and zip code were changed to one in Illinois. Those were the only things changed.
Other than that, I still have the account, minus a few mesos. I have no idea why someone would bother hacking an account without cleaning it out, or changing the info. They could have at least got a few mil off equipment, potion, and ETC item sales. I really don't know if I should classify this as hacked, but it's something I had no control over. I ran a virus scan on the computers I logged on with the account, and they came back clean. Has this happened to anyone else? o-o