Account Lost and Recovered

[Takie]

Oddly enough the address checks out. It's not a random string of numbers or street names O_O;

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y50/Takie/Address.jpg

[draxyl]

The address on Sarah's account:

admin: address removed

[email protected]

Mods, feel free to edit if this person requests it... but this was found on Sarah's acccount after recovering it from POL. (That's not Sarah's address for the dense minded)

https://www.intelius.com

Get's a hit on a name for the unlisted # provided, but they obviously wanta the $ to provide it.

Personally, I'd plop down the $13 to get the name, then fill up the car for a roadtrip to Oregon. Someone has some kneecaps that need fixing...

No one should take giving out their account info, even to other officers in the LS, for granite.

[aurik]

You don't know that the person whose credit card that is, is actually doing the deed. (In fact, since they're probably incurring multiple $25 charges to the card for transfer, I bet it's a stolen card)

[Churchill]

Because someone who hacks accounts is obviously dumb enough to put their real address down on all of them. Leave the sleuthing to the Hardy boys.

[Aangeliceus]

Atleast on my account, they did not change billing info or address, so I had to eat the $25.00 it seems.

SE is refusing to do anything, blaming us for poor security etc. [nothing new there]

[sephir]

AA, if you use Visa/Mastercard for your FFXI billing go to them. Say that this was done without your knowledge and they always investigate the incident. Trust me, Visa goes for blood when it comes to fraud/misuse and almost always they catch the person.

[Epical]

Just Paypal that $13 to Taj instead and have him wreak unholy havoc upon whoever that person is.

[Fallso]

This certainly is odd, however, I'd say it's somebody trying to frame people.

Naming the character Rykoshet? That's not going to go unnoticed, especially by the fact that Ryko browses gamefaqs anyway.
Naming one Taja and putting it on levi..too coincidental.
The email account..not sure that could've been obtained off of BG, maybe a wild guess?

This is ofcourse asuming the most positive thing, and that it wasn't somebody we all know.

[Sylvrdragon]

Just Paypal that $13 to Taj instead and have him wreak unholy havoc upon whoever that person is.

Eek man... they could kill my Mother and I don't think I would resort to such drastic measures.

[Magos]

At this point, getting these transfers reversed and the victims reimbursed is more of a priority than finding out "who done it." I honestly don't understand why someone would, literally, tear a linkshell apart like this...

To anyone who thinks this is just epic lulz, there really is no point in trying to convince you that this is only "funny" until it happend to you or your friends. Just save the "omgz lolz" posts because we are trying to come up w/ a solution to all of this.

[Obev]

Well people don't simply hack themselves a linkpearl to an HNMLS, so... if only there were a way to trace who gave your characters their new pearls.

Food for thought: If Taj did this, does it take him back off the hall of fame list?

[divisortheory]

Seems like some of you gave your password(s) to a leader that got a trojan => everyones account was at risk. That sucks, Hope you guys get your shit back.

As mentioned a few times, many of the people have never given out their info to anyone. All of them use Windower, and I hate to say that might be the culprit since I'm personally friends with StarHawk, but I honestly can't find another common factor at this point. Some of the people that this is happening to have never given out their info, ever. Not once, not one-half of a time. 0 times, to anyone.

[Taj]

Seems like some of you gave your password(s) to a leader that got a trojan => everyones account was at risk. That sucks, Hope you guys get your shit back.

As mentioned a few times, many of the people have never given out their info to anyone. All of them use Windower, and I hate to say that might be the culprit since I'm personally friends with StarHawk, but I honestly can't find another common factor at this point. Some of the people that this is happening to have never given out their info, ever. Not once, not one-half of a time. 0 times, to anyone.

Anyone who has ever disassembled Windower would know this isn't the case. It doesn't even use network functions, stop being a retard.

[Lynsy]

Seems like some of you gave your password(s) to a leader that got a trojan => everyones account was at risk. That sucks, Hope you guys get your shit back.

As mentioned a few times, many of the people have never given out their info to anyone. All of them use Windower, and I hate to say that might be the culprit since I'm personally friends with StarHawk, but I honestly can't find another common factor at this point. Some of the people that this is happening to have never given out their info, ever. Not once, not one-half of a time. 0 times, to anyone.

Maybe it was DvsParse...

[divisortheory]

Anyone who has ever disassembled Windower would know this isn't the case. It doesn't even use network functions, stop being a retard.

If you have any other ideas how it could happen to someone who has never given out their info to anyone, please suggest. I'm not saying it's the case, I'm offering up ideas by process of elimination.

Maybe it was DvsParse...

Good thing code written in .NET Framework is trivial to disassemble. Search for ".NET Reflector" on google.

[Taj]

Anyone who has ever disassembled Windower would know this isn't the case. It doesn't even use network functions, stop being a retard.

If you have any other ideas how it could happen to someone who has never given out their info to anyone, please suggest. I'm not saying it's the case, I'm offering up ideas by process of elimination.

I'm going to go ahead and bet that they gave their info to someone. Linkshell members maybe? Rule #1 of FFXI is that if you got hacked, one of your friends did it. People can't just magically hack POL accounts.

[Magos]

This certainly is odd, however, I'd say it's somebody trying to frame people.

Naming the character Rykoshet? That's not going to go unnoticed, especially by the fact that Ryko browses gamefaqs anyway.
Naming one Taja and putting it on levi..too coincidental.
The email account..not sure that could've been obtained off of BG, maybe a wild guess?

This is ofcourse asuming the most positive thing, and that it wasn't somebody we all know.

I agree that it's a bit too obvious but who else has access to Radiance linkpearls? Either someone from Radiance did this purposely or one of the sacks/shellholder from Radiance was hacked as well.

[Ryko]

Anyone who has ever disassembled Windower would know this isn't the case. It doesn't even use network functions, stop being a retard.

If you have any other ideas how it could happen to someone who has never given out their info to anyone, please suggest. I'm not saying it's the case, I'm offering up ideas by process of elimination.

Maybe it was DvsParse...

Good thing code written in .NET Framework is trivial to disassemble. Search for ".NET Reflector" on google.

Didn't you say one of the accounts was on 360 anyway? Just saying that would throw the baby out with the bathwater.

[Lynsy]

Anyone who has ever disassembled Windower would know this isn't the case. It doesn't even use network functions, stop being a retard.

If you have any other ideas how it could happen to someone who has never given out their info to anyone, please suggest. I'm not saying it's the case, I'm offering up ideas by process of elimination.

Maybe it was DvsParse...

Good thing code written in .NET Framework is trivial to disassemble. Search for ".NET Reflector" on google.

It was a joke >_> Don't accuse "windower" if you're known for DvsParse and it's just as likely.

[divisortheory]

I'm going to go ahead and bet that they gave their info to someone. Linkshell members maybe? Rule #1 of FFXI is that if you got hacked, one of your friends did it. People can't just magically hack POL accounts.

I'm willing to entertain that idea, but who gave Taja (Sarahlynn) a pearl to your LS? It's not like random people who nobody has ever heard of can log onto FFXI and send a tell to HNM leaders and say "hey can I have a pearl"?

Edit: Maybe a Radiance sackholder was hacked as well, idk. But then this starts begging the question of how does one person get access to such a large variety of peoples' (even across servers) account information?