Poll: Account Hackers, What?
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One of the best ones of these goes to a good friend of mine by the name of CJ.
We were playing an MMO and he got into an argument with someone in Broadcast, they were being a macho fucktard and he was egging them on. It goes back and forth between the two of them and the kid ends up making a threat to hunt him down and kill him IRL.
What was CJ's response? To post his home address and phone number.
CJ just so happens to be a cop down in Louisiana.
We were playing an MMO and he got into an argument with someone in Broadcast, they were being a macho fucktard and he was egging them on. It goes back and forth between the two of them and the kid ends up making a threat to hunt him down and kill him IRL.
What was CJ's response? To post his home address and phone number.
CJ just so happens to be a cop down in Louisiana.
No, but a guy was calling me a "faggoty shit eater" because I exploded him when his car was headed for my face.
I explained that not only was he on the other team, but that he decided to drive towards the guy holding the bazooka.
He said "fuck you" and I never heard from him again.
I think that my brother has been threatened with ban, but it hasn't happened yet.
I explained that not only was he on the other team, but that he decided to drive towards the guy holding the bazooka.
He said "fuck you" and I never heard from him again.
I think that my brother has been threatened with ban, but it hasn't happened yet.
i have been threatened alot like that, in guild wars, i used to pwn... so naturally alot of people called me a cheater and told me they were going to hack me. never happened, runescape people got annoyed by me (i was a greifer) and threatened to hack me, never happened. counter strike, killed a guy 24 times in a row then he started freaking out threatening to hack me. the only time someone was successful is when my wow account got banned last week for buying in game money. i didnt have a current subscription at the time. appearently someone hacked my account and added a trial account, then used my account to transfer money or something.
Never been hacked as far as I'm aware. There was this one time, though, a few years ago where I was accused of being a hacker in GunZ. I killed the same guy, maybe, three times without dying and he started going off on me about how I must have been cheating. I concluded that he was just a terrible shot because I wasn't all that good at the game or anything. Incidentally...
stupid ass u cant hack or nuthin
i got norton
stupid ass u cant hack or nuthin
i got norton
The people that actually can and do hack, will not outright tell you they are going to do it. You will make them mad and then the next day your PC will be wiped or all your passwords changed and such. Good hackers (i.e. the ones to worry about) will do serious damage. Bad hackers (i.e. most of em) might be able to stop your internet for a while or get into one or two accounts but if they are dumb enough to tell you they are doing it, you can charge them with internet crimes which carry some serious sentences.
My e-mail was among a bunch of the hotmail account passwords that got leaked. My WoW account got hacked 2 days later. It took a couple of hours but I changed every password and recovered every account attached to that e-mail. Those are the hackers to worry about. I never saw him coming and he probably never met or knew me.
I was lucky enough to be on a Vent server with my GF and friend and they saw me log in.
GF: "Thought you stopped playing WoW?"
Me: "I did. It's innactive."
GF: "Demort just logged in."
I immediately connected the dots after reading the article here about the hacked e-mail addresses.
Me: "I gotta go!"
Disconnected from vent and flew through WoW, my bank website, my credit card websites, social networking sites and changed all the passwords. The dude used my hotmail address to get access to my yahoo address. That was the hardest one to recover but I got it all done within about an hour. He didn't do anything to my WoW account and I don't think he had time to attack my bank or credit cards. Weird... how the first thing someone went after was my WoW account.
Since then, my girlfriend and her brother's accounts got hacked. I am guessing through some sort of spyware. Then my friends got hacked, don't know how they did that.
Anyway, if you piss of a serious hacker, they can knock out your firewalls and fuck your shit up and do it just for the lols but you won't know who it is or why. After they were done they would go about doing whatever real crimes they were actually up to. Those darn Blackhats.
My e-mail was among a bunch of the hotmail account passwords that got leaked. My WoW account got hacked 2 days later. It took a couple of hours but I changed every password and recovered every account attached to that e-mail. Those are the hackers to worry about. I never saw him coming and he probably never met or knew me.
I was lucky enough to be on a Vent server with my GF and friend and they saw me log in.
GF: "Thought you stopped playing WoW?"
Me: "I did. It's innactive."
GF: "Demort just logged in."
I immediately connected the dots after reading the article here about the hacked e-mail addresses.
Me: "I gotta go!"
Disconnected from vent and flew through WoW, my bank website, my credit card websites, social networking sites and changed all the passwords. The dude used my hotmail address to get access to my yahoo address. That was the hardest one to recover but I got it all done within about an hour. He didn't do anything to my WoW account and I don't think he had time to attack my bank or credit cards. Weird... how the first thing someone went after was my WoW account.
Since then, my girlfriend and her brother's accounts got hacked. I am guessing through some sort of spyware. Then my friends got hacked, don't know how they did that.
Anyway, if you piss of a serious hacker, they can knock out your firewalls and fuck your shit up and do it just for the lols but you won't know who it is or why. After they were done they would go about doing whatever real crimes they were actually up to. Those darn Blackhats.
well i wouldn't say i dared them to, my warcraft acount got hacked and i lost everything that could be sold on my hunter and everything that could be Disenchanted on my warroir. I got it all back and got to keep the shit the farmers left on my acount. it was still a long week.
I personally have never encountered anyone who threatened to attack my account, but I am fairly reclusive when it comes to online activities. I have no social networking accounts, nor do I play an MMOs or have any of my systems hooked up online. The immaturity and hyper competitiveness drove me away. I just don't have the time or the will to devote the kind of hours it takes to be competitive on any level.
For all you talk about serious damage, that right there is what I call insanely lucky.auronvi said:
1. He went for WoW first.
2. Your girl friend caught him.
3. She said something.
4. He did no lasting damage.
All the talk about nasty damage was about good hackers. The list of e-mails and their passwords were posted publicly on a forum. So any Joe Schmoe could have done this not the hacker themselves. And yes I agree with you that I had some insane luck on catching it. Believe me, I dodged a bullet.Georgie_Leech said:
I've heard all sorts of shit over gaming.
Just make them pay, us etheir account name to find out all sorts of stuff about them on their internet, if you can get their e-mail use it to sign up for tons of spamming sites (preferably donkey porn or something)
If you can find their name, and the general area/country they live in you may hava a chance to find their excact adress.
If you can find their adress you can do even more shit to them.
Though it can easily be a dead end, if they're a bit carefull about what personal info they put on the internet.
It's also a lot easier, if they use the same username for lots of things, and doesn't ahve a generic user-name, which everyone uses.
Just make them pay, us etheir account name to find out all sorts of stuff about them on their internet, if you can get their e-mail use it to sign up for tons of spamming sites (preferably donkey porn or something)
If you can find their name, and the general area/country they live in you may hava a chance to find their excact adress.
If you can find their adress you can do even more shit to them.
Though it can easily be a dead end, if they're a bit carefull about what personal info they put on the internet.
It's also a lot easier, if they use the same username for lots of things, and doesn't ahve a generic user-name, which everyone uses.
Every once in a while I'll get targeted by morons. If I'm receiving an email from Blizzard telling me that I'm being investigated for gold selling and that I need to go to a website to fill out a list of information including my socsec I'm already sending up red flags because Blizzard wont tell you they're investigating you.
Oh, and the socsec has nothing to do with WOW. FFS.
After about 3 months of this suddenly I try to get into my email and get a "this email has been placed on lock down due to repeated incorrect password inputs"
Wonder what they tried to do, eh?
Oh, and the socsec has nothing to do with WOW. FFS.
After about 3 months of this suddenly I try to get into my email and get a "this email has been placed on lock down due to repeated incorrect password inputs"
Wonder what they tried to do, eh?
I've been threatened, but nothing's ever happened. For those who have, can I just recommend Kleenex Extra Soft[sub]TM[/sub] as a comfort aid?
I was involved in the competitive CoD4 scene for a while and so when I brought those skills to pub games it tended to leave some people a little pissed off. Generally I just let it slide off my back or try and defuse the situation by making some self deprecating jokes but occasionally, generally after a long day of frustration, I'll just keep on goading them and twisting the knife.
As a result I've been threatened dozens of times by pre pubescent kids who are either going to kill me or hack my computer and make my life a misery. They never went through with either. I was a little disappointed, to be honest, after making them go into a rabid frenzy of rage.
As a result I've been threatened dozens of times by pre pubescent kids who are either going to kill me or hack my computer and make my life a misery. They never went through with either. I was a little disappointed, to be honest, after making them go into a rabid frenzy of rage.
It used to happen a lot while playing free-roam in GTA IV on PC, me and some friends would just fool around, sometimes we would kill a few people if they started shooting or killing us, and we would always be called hackers because we got a lot of head shots or just killed them really fast and then the empty threats with "we'll hack your accounts" would usually follow.
I sigh, open the console and type ban player XXXXX 999 <reason- abusive>
They suffer a critical existence failure and forever are banished to a dimension other than my own.
The rest of us carry on having a good time.
The kind of people that make these threats aren't the same as the kind that carry them out, they just get on and do it.
For console players it's best just find the Mute option and silence them, they'll keep raging into the mic whether anyone can hear them or not.
They suffer a critical existence failure and forever are banished to a dimension other than my own.
The rest of us carry on having a good time.
The kind of people that make these threats aren't the same as the kind that carry them out, they just get on and do it.
For console players it's best just find the Mute option and silence them, they'll keep raging into the mic whether anyone can hear them or not.