I am only posting this as a heads up to what may be happening around other servers.
Tonight, I found out that my mule account password was changed to something other than what it was supposed to be.
I called POL to get my password reset but I had left my codes in America, I did not bring them when I moved to Japan.
After getting my codes from a family member, I got POL to reset my password during the maintenance period...
After logging into my mule account, I had found that my account was shifted to HADES in the course of a day.
Timeline of events:
9/23/07 5:20 PM - I logged in to Cancel Content ID
9/24/07 06:13 AM - World Transfer Requested (Noted in the email)
9/24/07 10:14 PM - World Transfer Done (Email from POL)
9/25/07 03:02 AM - Someone Logs into account
9/26/07 03:45 AM - I regain control of the account.
When I did get logged in, I found each of my mules standing at a NPC or delivery box dude. When I clicked on the Delivery NPC, I saw Gil being sent somewhere, but I could not read the name fast enough to see who it was going to. My guess is that they NPC'd everything EXCEPT one of my mules had a mog locker and the lease had expired... so they did not get about 4m worth of Dynamis Currency, V.Cloak and a bunch of other gear I stored in there. The rest of the mules, I had in each city for various storage/crafting reasons for my mains.
I still cannot figure out how they did this since I have been using the mule account on Xbox since I moved to Tokyo... The password was strong, so I am really at a loss to figure out what happened. I am 99% sure it was RMT who got the account, since they NPC'd everything.... I had a few mules that had max mog safe and gobbie bags (before the days of mog locker), so I doubt they could have just transfered ALL of that gear to other mules that quickly. Since my mules were standing at NPC's --- I figure that is what they did.
One one mule, so far I see on FFXI-AH that they sold two of my Noble's Beds on the AH (Angeliceus). Stil checking the rest...
Overall, I lost about 8-9m of Gil and Items. The work I put into building this mule network was worth getting back over the items, however just a heads up.
A few other people have reported that someone was trying to log into their account while they were online and I know of one other account that is MIA just as mine was. The funny thing is, I have 4-5 other accounts that I have gotten from people that quit over time, I have since changed their passwords and made sure that they were fairly tight. But, these guys either didnt see them or just didnt bother... all of those accounts are probably worth a load more gil than my pidly mules.
Anyway, SE of course couldnt tell me any more than what I already knew... My mules are stuck on Hades for 90 days and I paid $25.00 basically to get ripped. :D
Moral of the story, once again... strong passwords and don't give your shit out. (Only 1 person had this POL ID in the 4 years I have had this mule account, and that was over a year ago with a different password.)
Gonna take a break from the game for awhile, I guess.
-AA
Edit: 5am Grammar sucks. :/