Trade hack is back? Also.. I got hacked.

That would do jack sh`it. There hasn't been a legitimate useful bruteforce for maplestory since 2008. Most of the time they completely avoid your password and force a change. Back in 2010 the big thing would be to IP track players through skype, msn, email, any means necessary, and use that IP to find out the emails of the player. After all that's done they can hack the email using the IP as a means of "I lost my password to my email." Most hackings take days to actually accomplish.

From what I understand, the current hackings do not involve the password getting changed.