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Any recent hacked accounts from Southperry users?
Kortestanov Wrote:Obviously

The general way of doing such things is simply using hash crack attacks on the whole database in order to parse the passwords, but it's very well possible that the hackers read the "parsed" database from top to bottom (older to newer accounts) for organizing reasons. It's not like you can predict who's going to get hacked next, because you don't know which hashes did they manage to crack by now. The hackers aren't obligated to go by regular order either, they are probably just doing it because it's easier to know which accounts are already hacked this way.

Yeah, I meant that they're probably doing it to stay organized. They managed to find out how to get into Nexon's database, so they probably have some sort of system. They're most likely doing something on this scale not just for some personal vendetta, but because they want some sort of money. The best way to make sure they didn't miss any good accounts is to do it all in order. Of course, they could always go back to older accounts if they wished, so even if your account was the first ever created it doesn't mean your safe. However, I feel a little less afraid for my november '05 account to get hacked, but i'm still keeping a special character in the password until this gets sorted out.
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Any recent hacked accounts from Southperry users? - by BDRyan - 2010-01-18, 01:09 AM
Any recent hacked accounts from Southperry users? - by Kabanaw - 2010-02-07, 03:26 PM

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