2010-02-07, 11:32 AM
My main account was created March 2008. Gulp.
Some of the hackers seem to concentrate on just one server. People have had characters stripped on one server but untouched with lots of valuables on another server. This could mean that some people's accounts have already been hacked and they wouldn't even know it if they didn't have significant NX to take and were not active on whatever server the hackers were on.
It's been said many times before, but worth repeating if it saves just one account:
Make sure that you have a decent password, 10-characters long minimum, with a random mix of numbers, lower case and upper case letters. Anything less than this may be be crackable using rainbow tables.
Examples of cracked passwords from project-rainbowcrack.com:
919003358553 cracked in 12 seconds, 12-digit, numbers only
ytnmallgl cracked 29 seconds, 9-digit, lower-case letters only
91e8uct92 cracked in 172 seconds, 9-digit, numbers and lc-letters
xHYqkUB2 cracked in 623 seconds, 8-digit, numbers, lc and uc letters
Note that simple reasoning would say an 8-digit numb+lc+uc should take:
62^8=218 trillion possibilities
Even assuming 1 billion tests per second should mean 218,000 seconds = 60 hours to crack.
NO, doesn't work that way.
Some of the hackers seem to concentrate on just one server. People have had characters stripped on one server but untouched with lots of valuables on another server. This could mean that some people's accounts have already been hacked and they wouldn't even know it if they didn't have significant NX to take and were not active on whatever server the hackers were on.
It's been said many times before, but worth repeating if it saves just one account:
Make sure that you have a decent password, 10-characters long minimum, with a random mix of numbers, lower case and upper case letters. Anything less than this may be be crackable using rainbow tables.
Examples of cracked passwords from project-rainbowcrack.com:
919003358553 cracked in 12 seconds, 12-digit, numbers only
ytnmallgl cracked 29 seconds, 9-digit, lower-case letters only
91e8uct92 cracked in 172 seconds, 9-digit, numbers and lc-letters
xHYqkUB2 cracked in 623 seconds, 8-digit, numbers, lc and uc letters
Note that simple reasoning would say an 8-digit numb+lc+uc should take:
62^8=218 trillion possibilities
Even assuming 1 billion tests per second should mean 218,000 seconds = 60 hours to crack.
NO, doesn't work that way.