Hi i was hacked, plz help.

hi all i was just playing guild wars the other day like i was most of my days when i was introduced to this awesome game like 2 months ago i played many hours and didnt want anything do to with other games
and i even bought factions to.
but then on this faithfull morning of thursday the 20th when i was playing again i was shocked my the message u have been logged out because someone else has logged in with your account, i freaked
i litteraly couple seconds before recruited a new clansmember and was busy doing business and made some nice profits
ofcourse i tried to log in again still same msg other player is playing on my account
and after a couple tries (its all so clear to me now) the pass was changed
later i found out my email was hacked to and the bastard changed my msn pass to so i lost my email account and all the mates that i had accumulated all over those years
but then it struck me someone hacked my email and used the recover password thingy
well i didnt know really what to do
but i did change my steam password and contact email just to be sure
then i asked my clansmate what to do
and he said send mail to arenanet so i went to their site and red they have ppl on standby 24/7 to help us
well i send a mail with all my details and what happend in this mail but its 2 days later and i still havnt gotten a reply
i send 2 mails actualy first 1 was before i realised my email was hacked also with old email but after i realised this i send a new mail with my other email
but so far no good i avnt gotten any reply whatsoever
even EA answered me sooner when i had a prob with one of their games
well i hope something can be done about it
i lost like couple 100k in cash and some high end greens and alot of high end gold my inventory with shards etc 3 lvl 20 charcters unconditional dmg weapons u name it
and above that the loss of guild wars game and factions game totalling 70 euros
is there any hope i wil get my account back i can totally proof its my game i have receits and the boxes is theer a possibility like the old steam when u was hacked u could cut ur serial from ur booklet send to them and get a new one
well i have learned couple things that i want to share with u guys considering safety most of u will probably know this already but still wanna say it
use different for every account u have online.
use long hard names with lower and upper cases passes mixed with numbers and write em down on a paper or whatever but dont put them in ur pc just write down physicly
and obvious one never give ur passes or info to anyone doesnt matter how much u trust them
also try to keep ur email a secret not showable to others
well if any of u have some advice or information for me about whatever regardng these issues it would be greatly apreciated
cause how it looks now i wont be playing guild wars ever again...

thx for reading and best regards
sir wan

Spelling, punctuation and grammar would make that a much better post.

Anet will get back you to typically within 24 hours.

Yes, this is pretty obvious, perhaps you should follow your own advice and be a little more careful next time.

Anyway, I dont think theres anything you can do, sorry.

i didnt give out my own pass ofcourse my problem was more that i used the same pass for alot of things
but i still dont understand how my email was hacked cause it was a variation with numbers
well i guess hotmail is just easily hacked
i wont use hotmail ever again for important stuff il use my email provided by my provider or gmail

What happend was someone on guild wars convinced you to open a program and you opend it. The program u opened was a keylogger, the keylogger first obtained all the information he could about ur syste,....pswrd for email and all. these logs are sent back to the violator via ftp he checks ur keystrokes and ur screwed....i highly suggest downloading mcafee enterprise and using the prepetual setting

...What?

I'm sorry to hear that you lost your account. It is most likely that he hacked your actual email, and found out your guild wars password from there.

What you should have done, is logged back in (it will kick anyone off your account if you login again) and change your email and password immediately. You would still lose your email to him, but at least your 80+ dollars spent on guild wars would be safe.

Also, go to www.fbi.gov and report him for hacking your email account, he can get up to 20 years in prison for it if they find him.

Get a good anti virus and spyware program and a good firewall program I'd suggest some freeware programs but dont want to post outer links to them on this forum if there not allowed... contact Anet www.guildwars.com/support is the ticket link i think........

Change your email account to your personal provider account.., Like you said use a password for all your accounts numbers / letters and postit note to see password / user .............



Good luck!

ok first off pywolf i know of keyloggers but i didnt use any 3rd party programs for gw so i dont understand how someone could give me a keylogger.
i had antivir at that moment free antivirus but i have since upgraded to norton antivirus 2006 and zonealarm firewall which i had but didnt install out of lazyness
and what is this perpetual setting?

and then shardfenix i tried to log back in but ofcourse what i should have done was changed the pass as soon as possible
but if its possible to change again with mail lol it wouldnt make a diference
cause my mail was also hacked
and i will look at this gov fbi site but what if he doesnt live in usa?

i got a pm also which im looking into now

Support should be able to return your account, they will probably ask for the keys you used to set up the account as proof. They will not be able to return anything that has been removed from your account.

You should have received an email from them, acknowledging receipt of your query, quite quickly. Since you haven't had any reply I'd send them another question explaining the problem and that you haven't had any reply yet.

Good luck with getting the account back.

may I take a guess... you were using hotmail as the email address registered with GW?

yes i used crappy shitty most and easiest hacked hotmail email in the world lol
cmon dont smear it in dont make it worse for me then it is
like i said earlier i will never use hotmail for anything important again
il use my email provided by provider

Contrary to American belife, FBI has no juristriction in EU or anywhere else outside the US Border.

But contact your IP provider and Hotmail, they might be able to get the person.

god they will never catch him or her but like i said to my clansmate the day that it happend if i had that guy in my arms that did this i would strangle him thats how pissed i was and still am
it is my favorite game i played like 500 hours in 2 months and in one moment to another i had to go cold turkey plus the fact that i lost all my mates in msn which is the worst i am thankfull i have some emails and some ppl on xfire but i lost a whole lot of mates from all over the world
so if anyone has some direct links where i can file this guy i will but im to stoned to go look now

ps. why do i have smilie im not happy

Try AVG`s free anti-virus program and for the love of God use punctuations. Not only is it proper and easier to read but is also one of the forum rules. I can tolerate a few mistakes here and there as I do them myself but totally ignoring proper punctuations is unforgivable.

Comon. the guy was typing in a torrent of passion and fury. cut him some slack for his punctuation. I too know hwo u feel. I got hacked once. then i immediatley changed my pword and email. the momment i got booted from the game. i also deleted the email that i was using. Oh heres anotehr thing. dont use gaming shops like those where u pay 5 bucks an hour to play a game. chances are, ppl instlaeed keyloggers on those computers and anybody who palys them will get their pword stollen.

All 5 times he posted?

8. Do Not Abuse the English Language

This is a message board, not a chat room. Secondly, Don't use "Leet-Speak" here. As such, you have all the time necessary to articulate your posts in a coherent matter. "You" is only two more letters than "u." It won't kill you to type them. Completely illegible posts are subject to moderation - and I can't guarantee their accuracy of 'translating' the author’s original message.

Additionally, when one punctuation works instead of 10 (example: ? instead of ?!?!), use one.

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/content...#_Toc115111679

Sorry to hear that... always make sure you have an Anti Virus, Anti Spyware and Firewall protection on your computer cause you will never know what can happen when you slip up. Also never use the same passwords for anything... I have everything written down on a piece of paper that I have secured in my safe (Paranoid but hey I think everyone should have a safe in their home).

Regards

A.net won't give back the items to you the lost, only drawback if using a third party program, at least you can get ya account back.

I'm sorry for bad my punctuation earlier.
I personally dont believe it was a keylogger, I think it as to do something with my hacked email account.
But ive learned some more stuff regarding passwords and security.
And I got some extra security measures.
One can never be 100% safe, if someone has enought time and computing power they can crack any password eventually.
So best thing is to change regularly in combination with max size passwords.
But im just going to have to wait and see what happens, i hope arenanet can fix it somehow.
I'll let you guys know what happens,thanks.

well i have heard a rumor a couple of month ago that there was a guild that has a forum, and some ppl that use the same pass for everything and the same email address and when they register the admin of that side got a hold of their pass and email since some of them using the same pass for everthing and hack their account. well that is just a rumor but it can b true..

*Thinks about Gwg admins*...nah

Psh, how do you think Racthoh got rich?

Farming? Hahahahaha

/shuts up.

o.O

And those builds might be ideas of other player's that he stole :O

That's the one thing i hate about having email as account name, if they can find out your email and hack into it they're halfway into your gw account.

Totaly true, they should have more security measures.

I believe that happened to several people from what I've heard. Several forums were hacked including either War Machine's or EvIL's and several people got their accounts stolen because they used the same pass and email for the forum as their Guild Wars account.

Read these two carefully.. If you state that you were logged in and then someone also logged in, which kicked you off, wouldn't that have done the same thing to the person who logged onto your account?

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Did you write down your pw on a piece of paper?

eh...

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After I was kicked off I tried to get in again but I kept getting the message someone else is playing with you account unable to loggin.
You would think that the person that was playing under my account would be kicked of as soon as I logged in again which wasnt the case.
And to Don I did write down my password but it was in a 100% safe place.
And I know they didnt get my pass with forum registration trick, because I used an unique 12 digit long password that I only used for guild wars.

Well, were you playing in any internet cafes, accessing your email in any cafes? It may be a longshot but there could be a 'hacker' looking over your soulder n those places, if you do use them.

You still have your original disk, right? It should be some use to you, because it is proof that you are owner of that account. GW support should do something with that information. When you send them your key, that should be at least one indication that there is something wrong. Writing down a key code is not enough, but it should be ground to further investigate.

To ischuros I had not played in any internet cafes or on other people's computers, so that couldnt be it.

At Silent Kitty yes I do still have my original guild wars and factions games.
Complete with activation card with scratch layer in factions and the paper that you had to rip open in guild wars containing my serials.
And I have the receits from the stores where I bought the games all of which I can fax or send pic to them.
But they need to reply to me first which they havnt done yet, but there was a weekend between it.
So im just gonna have to wait and see.

hope u get ur stuf back man. this happened to me before. im pretty paranoid so i make lots of different passwords for lots of dirrent things with 15 differnt emails. yes its a pain in the ass but its reliable. unforutnalty i did get hacked a few weeks back. prob cuz some guy at a place called vanteus in san fran installed keyloggers on all the computers. luckily, after i got botted i imediately relogged on, changed pword, and changed email. since then, i do taht reguarly. gl man. OH and btw, customize all ur valuables ppl so u cant get ur items stolen.

[QUOTE=Olfin Bedwere]All 5 times he posted?

8. Do Not Abuse the English Language

This is a message board, not a chat room. Secondly, Don't use "Leet-Speak" here. As such, you have all the time necessary to articulate your posts in a coherent matter. "You" is only two more letters than "u." It won't kill you to type them. Completely illegible posts are subject to moderation - and I can't guarantee their accuracy of 'translating' the author’s original message.

Additionally, when one punctuation works instead of 10 (example: ? instead of ?!?!), use one.

I agree with you completely Olfin, but it has proven pointless to address this subject, in general. In regards to your quote:

"As such, you have all the time necessary to articulate your posts in a coherent matter."

Articulate:

One can only use this word when referring to verbal or phonetic examples ( talking,speach), not writing.

Matter:

I believe you mean "form", the use of the word "matter" to refer to written material is a common error.

Other then these two mistakes, i agree with you.

In regards to account hacking, hope Anet or some one can help you out. ( the guy that lost the account, not Olfin )

I compleatly dissagree if u have many passworded things make small changes to each on like

exp.Meowmix for gw and Meowmix 910 for email

sorry that u got hackd

I have just changed all my pwds inc gmail and gw's.....

@Nocere Moriari

And I agree with you that it`s pointless to address this. If I did, that`s all I`d be doing when posting but according to Webster the 4th definition of articulate is: 4.Characterized by the use of clear, expressive language: an articulate essay.

Anywhoo, I cut and pasted that from the forum rules so their words not mine.

Yes maraxusofk I could of had customized all my valuables but im a business man .
And I have gotten very paranoid also after it happend to me.
I use zonealarm firewall,spyware doctor and free avg.
And I also found the probable cause of the hacking.
While scanning with spyware doctor i stumbled upon a trojan banker .
some info:
Trojan.Banker.DK is a trojan that aims at stealing online banking information like username and password from the victim machine and sending it to its creator through SMTP.
But it can also steal username and passwords and instal keyloggers.

Glad you agree, about the dictionary definition... no body is perfect. The forum rules made a mistake no big deal. I did not find that definition in any dictionary ( looked at webster 2005, 1984 and 1979) and on a couple on line.
I am not disagreeing or implying anything, and don't want to ensue in an offence. Not to mention that this is off the subject. But i will keep looking around.
So let me salute you and express my allegiance to you in regards to the protection of the Indo-European Germanic language that is English