2010-02-03, 07:30 PM
Eosian Wrote:Just to be absolutely clear on this, the account that was hacked was a separate account from the original, that had had it's password changed after the original was hacked last month, but was still broken into without the intruder having to change any of the (fairly new) info?
MissingLink Wrote:There was a similar report in the SW Q&A thread. (Could be same guy actually). Mule account was hacked (as well as main rehacked) even though password was changed 3 days before.
There goes the comforting notion that the hackers only had old info and you were safe if you changed your password.
I guess there is still hope that a long and complex password will protect you. Unfortunately the Q&A thread does not ask how long or complicated the password was, only if it was on the hash-reverse sites.
Yes, it was my long time Maple friend, Kapel07. He was hacked on his shadower the same time as me, then changed his other accounts passwords and PINs in response. Yesterday, he went on one of the accounts just to find out that it was stripped clean, and his shadower was robbed again.
I didn't mention his shadower, because he forgot the birthday on it, so all he could do was change the PIN on that account, but the other account definitely had different password on it.
Again, it's one report so far, but I quizzed him with qualifiers to make sure he wasn't being a complete retard when it came to his account security, so I can vouch for his claim. Not enough to establish a pattern, more like a warning.