2010-01-13, 03:58 PM
ctblack Wrote:MS is mostly played by kids and Nexon knows this, the likelihood of some kid taking them to court is remote and Nexon is banking on that. But if you had NX that were stolen, thats property theft regardless of what Nexon can do or in this case not do anything about. In the real world if this happens one can report to the police and "some" actions will be taken by them, but in a virtual world this is mostly untested but should still be cover by the same laws. So you don't really need to hire a lawyer and file a suit against Nexon, you should be able to get the law enforcement to investigate Nexon or at the very least get some negative media coverage to Nexon.
From various hacking posts on a number of different forums I had read. This makes me think its the work of some gold farmer(s) harvesting mesos, either with some inside help or actually have someone working inside Nexon.
Basically the intent would just be to put some pressure on them. We all know Nexon cares a lot about how they're seen (BBB responses) and the threat of a lawsuit would be likely to make them act. Not to mention that, while according to their 'rules' our characters are actually their property, our personal information is not and they are putting everyone that they should be protecting at risk of all sorts of attacks by doing nothing. There's more than enough information through just this last year of negligence when dealing with consumers to make a strong case against them, even if there's no proof that something they've done (or haven't done) is responsible for these attacks.
It's extremely disappointing at this point that they haven't even made an official attempt to respond to those who have been hacked. An actual announcement would be a double-edged sword (would make people aware but nervous, could breed more social hackings, etc) but they NEED to do something.
Flooding the BBB with notices about this would be the first step since Nexon isn't responding to us. Everyone needs to put a lot more pressure on them instead of just accepting that they'll never do anything or falsely hoping that they will sensibly deal with this in time. They won't. They never have.