2010-01-08, 04:46 AM
Hi everyone, I registered on this site just because of this topic. My wife had her account hijacked somewhere between the 3rd and the 5th of January 2010. I'm a computer programmer also and I keep our systems locked down tight. I was just floored when she exclaimed she lost all her stuff. I scanned her system immediately for malware, keyloggers, reviewed firewall entries, the network connection information, pretty much everything. Her system was 100% clean. There is absolutely no way someone could have guessed her account name, it was 12 characters long, with mixed numbers and letters and not the name of any of her players. On top of that, her password was also fairly long and mixed numbers and letters (from what I was told anyways).
We also don't follow ANY links mentioned in maplestory for anything (obvious scam is obvious), look at private server anything, and basically practice very safe computing practices.
I've read several posts about the recent hackings on this board and others and noticed a somewhat common thread... the people involved have accounts about 2 years or older and likely have not changed their passwords. According to some people on my buddy list, the nexon database WAS compromised around 2 years ago... however, that doesn't really explain why all of the sudden so many people are getting hacked recently. Regardless, I've pretty much ruled out any sort of hack or really any way that my wife's account and information was shared in any way (heck, *I* don't even know her pin and password and she wouldn't want to give it to me anyways, nor do I let her use my account)... leaving some sort of leak on Nexon's end as really the only feasible answer.
To dispel some of the information here, neither of us use MSN (not even installed), though we both have gmail accounts... she does not have any emails in there about anything related to maplestory.
Like others, she lost basically only stuff that was worth some cash -- weapons, above average scrolled stuff, skillbooks (maple warrior 20...)... and they even spent her 20k nx on gach on the 5th according to the transaction logs.
And the hacker was kind enough to leave her with 11 mesos on her 13x mage and 1111 mesos on her 7x sniper... which he/she also looted her expensive gear also... I'd say all in all, she lost about 1.2b in stuff and the aforementioned 20k nx. Thankfully, all untradeable stuff was not dropped... unfortunately now she wants to quit since she basically has nothing and has done nothing wrong.
I'm really at a loss for words and knowledge since this seems to have been completely out of our control. I'm curious to see if other people with KNOWN CLEAN SYSTEMS (no loggers, kthx) that have 2 years+ old accounts and HAVE CHANGED THEIR PASSWORDS somewhat recently have also been hacked.
I fear that if there are people in that category I asked about... that someone has current and ACTIVE access to the database for maplestory. If not, then it seems like they are still going off of the old information and only people that haven't changed their passwords are in trouble... and yes, it seems completely random with who's getting victimized.
Summary:
Completely clean systems, no keyloggers or viruses
Never been to ANY URL advertised in maple
No MSN installed
PIN / password were unchanged by hacker
Victim HAD NOT changed password since account creation 2+ years ago
We practice safer computer/internet practices (except changing password frequency obviously)
Account name and password would have been incredibly difficult to guess/hack
Hacker left untradeable things on, but left strange low end gear and etc stuff in inventory
Spent all remaining NX on the account on gach
Took all mesos
We also don't follow ANY links mentioned in maplestory for anything (obvious scam is obvious), look at private server anything, and basically practice very safe computing practices.
I've read several posts about the recent hackings on this board and others and noticed a somewhat common thread... the people involved have accounts about 2 years or older and likely have not changed their passwords. According to some people on my buddy list, the nexon database WAS compromised around 2 years ago... however, that doesn't really explain why all of the sudden so many people are getting hacked recently. Regardless, I've pretty much ruled out any sort of hack or really any way that my wife's account and information was shared in any way (heck, *I* don't even know her pin and password and she wouldn't want to give it to me anyways, nor do I let her use my account)... leaving some sort of leak on Nexon's end as really the only feasible answer.
To dispel some of the information here, neither of us use MSN (not even installed), though we both have gmail accounts... she does not have any emails in there about anything related to maplestory.
Like others, she lost basically only stuff that was worth some cash -- weapons, above average scrolled stuff, skillbooks (maple warrior 20...)... and they even spent her 20k nx on gach on the 5th according to the transaction logs.
And the hacker was kind enough to leave her with 11 mesos on her 13x mage and 1111 mesos on her 7x sniper... which he/she also looted her expensive gear also... I'd say all in all, she lost about 1.2b in stuff and the aforementioned 20k nx. Thankfully, all untradeable stuff was not dropped... unfortunately now she wants to quit since she basically has nothing and has done nothing wrong.
I'm really at a loss for words and knowledge since this seems to have been completely out of our control. I'm curious to see if other people with KNOWN CLEAN SYSTEMS (no loggers, kthx) that have 2 years+ old accounts and HAVE CHANGED THEIR PASSWORDS somewhat recently have also been hacked.
I fear that if there are people in that category I asked about... that someone has current and ACTIVE access to the database for maplestory. If not, then it seems like they are still going off of the old information and only people that haven't changed their passwords are in trouble... and yes, it seems completely random with who's getting victimized.
Summary:
Completely clean systems, no keyloggers or viruses
Never been to ANY URL advertised in maple
No MSN installed
PIN / password were unchanged by hacker
Victim HAD NOT changed password since account creation 2+ years ago
We practice safer computer/internet practices (except changing password frequency obviously)
Account name and password would have been incredibly difficult to guess/hack
Hacker left untradeable things on, but left strange low end gear and etc stuff in inventory
Spent all remaining NX on the account on gach
Took all mesos