Monday, October 26, 2009

BREAKING NEWS UPDATE! GW HACKINGS GALORE

BREAKING NEWS UPDATE!

Kiss of the Divine (dei's guild leader) got hacked last Sunday. It seems as if she isn't the only one. Many people on Guru are reporting they've been hacked too... most likely through a server side intrusion (aka... not your fault). Even though you have a secure password, anti-virus, no keyloggers, etc... they still manage to make their way in.

People who get hacked have most of their valuable items gone, FoW armor salvaged, armors with superior vigor salvaged, equipment bags gone, balthazar faction traded for z-keys and random weapons and miniatures appearing in the hacked person's inventories.

Anet is clearly showing that your account is vunerable. Until they improve their security, please note that you may get hacked. As usual, take any usual precautions and try to spread your wealth across multiple accounts if you have any.

I would also recommend splitting your stacks of valuable items (ex. Ectos, shards, gems) across multiple characters you don't use so you have more time to intercept the hacker if they do manage to break in. (ex. 8 ectos each on every character... 2 ectos each in the backpack, belt pouch, bag and the last bag)

Some links to recent complaints:

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10408381 (Kiss of the Divine)
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10408555
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10408397
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10407895 (This person even WORKS in computer security)
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10401219
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10406737
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10408949

1 comment:

  1. oshi-
    And I just signed up for guru, what a great time to do so >_>
    Luckily different emails and such, so I should be ok.

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