Hacked?

[ThrobbingEgo]

I've noticed, in the last few years, when someone's account for an online service gets stolen people claim they were "hacked." "My RuneScape character got hacked!" "My facebook was hacked!" "Someone hacked into my bank account!" The thing is, it rarely was hacked: either you gave away your information (you where "phished") or your password was obvious to someone who knows you (your account was "cracked"). I believe the reason people claim their accounts get hacked is because it absolves them of personal responsibility. "I wasn't stupid with my information, some hacker hacked on to the server and hacked my account! But, no worries, I'm going to get a ton of money from this Nigerian Princess."

What say you? Any stories about how your friends got "hacked"?

 

[WilliamWhite1]

My friend apparently got hacked five times on Gaia, and when I asked how, he claimed that he had no idea.

Then I asked if he had ever given out his password or account information.

He said 'yeah, but only to my closest friends. But they would never--"

I'm sure you can figure out the rest.

 

[GodsOneMistake]

Ones upon a time I used to play Runescape, and my character was taken(hacked) whatever... I don't now if he hacked me or what, but my password was "Dumbass" so idunno.

 

[SharPhoe]

My friend apparently got hacked five times on Gaia, and when I asked how, he claimed that he had no idea.

Then I asked if he had ever given out his password or account information.

He said 'yeah, but only to my closest friends. But they would never--"

I'm sure you can figure out the rest.

Poor, ppor guy. I use the same two to four passwords for every site I frequent, but not even my closest friends would be able to guess what either of them are, since one of them I've been using for well over a decade, and the other is something no one would expect.

 

[Lord_Ascendant]

I've not been hacked becuase my password has 206 digits

it started as 9517538524565791382465 and grew to include letters, greek letters and a lot of zeroes.

i change it every other day here on the Escapist

 

[ironmace2.0]

Once upon a time when good people played runescape my brother sold my acount after we made it he helped me (I was 5) he then sold it to his best friend but he hasent done it since.

 

[AbsoluteVirtue18]

No. I never give out my personal stuff.

.............

 

[DigitalJedl]

It was a time, before time. In a world of war and craft, a mate and I were coming through the Undercity. I gave him a good set of armour the day before. I asked what he had done with it, since he didn't have it on.

He said he was "hacked." I called him a moron and held my blade to the sky and vowed to never buy friends good items, ever again.

 

[ThrobbingEgo]

I've not been hacked becuase my password has 206 digits

it started as 9517538524565791382465 and grew to include letters, greek letters and a lot of zeroes.

i change it every other day here on the Escapist

What do you do with the sites that limit you at 18 digits?

 

[DigitalJedl]

I think most people say it because they don't know the difference.

Cracking =/= hacking.

 

[Lord_Ascendant]

I've not been hacked becuase my password has 206 digits

it started as 9517538524565791382465 and grew to include letters, greek letters and a lot of zeroes.

i change it every other day here on the Escapist

What do you do with the sites that limit you at 18 digits?

you dont wanna know. i change those every hour. rotating elliptical code in Delta-7 curve. (code speak for what the CIA does)

 

[ThrobbingEgo]

Cracking =/= hacking.

Telling people your password =/= you got hacked.

 

[ThrobbingEgo]

you dont wanna know. i change those every hour. rotating elliptical code in Delta-7 curve. (code speak for what the CIA does)

Your password is "5318008" isn't it?

 

[UltimatheChosen]

I've never been "hacked", both in the stricter sense of the term and the more common, bastardized one. I agree that it's overused in places where it makes little to no sense, however.

 

[Zombie_Fish]

My little sister got phished once on neopets. It was one of those things where it looked like the login page and it wasn't.

 

[DigitalJedl]

Cracking =/= hacking.

Telling people your password =/= you got hacked.

/Offers cookies.

 

[Lord_Ascendant]

you dont wanna know. i change those every hour. rotating elliptical code in Delta-7 curve. (code speak for what the CIA does)

Your password is "5318008" isn't it?

no. i just make shapes on my numpad.

 

[Lord_Ascendant]

I've not been hacked becuase my password has 206 digits

it started as 9517538524565791382465 and grew to include letters, greek letters and a lot of zeroes.

i change it every other day here on the Escapist

What do you do with the sites that limit you at 18 digits?

you dont wanna know. i change those every hour. rotating elliptical code in Delta-7 curve. (code speak for what the CIA does)

Are you Hideo Kojima

Hes the only one who could possibly understand the most complex and weirdest things out there

darn! he found out! QUICK ELIMINATE HIM!!!!

*cough* back to reality. i just googled how to encode a stream of numbers. and the CIA password has 1 billion digits.

 

[EeveeElectro]

My friend gets his MySpace hacked about twice a week and they send out bulletins saying he's gay.
Thing is, they make is so obvious they're hackers, they should try sound like him if they want to cause damage.

 

[Lord_Ascendant]

I've not been hacked becuase my password has 206 digits

it started as 9517538524565791382465 and grew to include letters, greek letters and a lot of zeroes.

i change it every other day here on the Escapist

What do you do with the sites that limit you at 18 digits?

you dont wanna know. i change those every hour. rotating elliptical code in Delta-7 curve. (code speak for what the CIA does)

Are you Hideo Kojima

Hes the only one who could possibly understand the most complex and weirdest things out there

darn! he found out! QUICK ELIMINATE HIM!!!!

*cough* back to reality. i just googled how to encode a stream of numbers. and the CIA password has 1 billion digits.

1 billion, I'd hate to be the person to log in in the mornings

they probably have a "password" button on their computes. in which case, whats the point of the security?