Hacked accounts - another possibility

Fansite admins/mods have no access to such information. They can only see what information you provide when you sign up.

Do any fansites require you to enter in an e-mail address?

Yes. But, your internet address used for the game shouldn't be the one used for forums etc.

It's not like e-mail address are hard to get.

Well there you go.

I'm not sure how all sites work, but as a super admin of my guild's website I can tell you this:

I can only see your email address if you allow it to be seen.

I cannot see your password.

An e-mail address is usually all it takes.

Unless things have changed overnight, you still need a password to get into an account.

How come so many of the scams involve a person simply asking for your e-mail address? See what Lyra mentioned up above, being that passwords aren't locked after failed entries. Getting the e-mail is the hard(er) part.

My email address is [email protected]

Now, hack my account!

my username for GW is no where near related to anything anyone knows of me publically.

my steam entity is also completely different.

i keep my various game accounts seperate so theres nothing to tie together and no one can social engineer to gain access to my account.

Theres only 1 other person who knows my account and i trust her with my life.

Unfortunately (or not?) I do not have the means of doing so, nor do I know where I can get a password thingamajigger (dunno what it's called). We can see what Google brings up, though.

Lyra: Is that why you never want to TF2 with me : ( ?

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If you play UK servers, you probably already played me and didnt know it. ;p

Every fought moi?

(Haven't been on in awhile, thanks college).

But yeah if you're on UK servers I may not have shot at you, since I'm US here.

ANYWAYS! On topic.

I am confident enough in my password. Also, I believe GW has a system where each failed attempt results in a longer time interval before the next attempt is processed. It would take so long to hack my account that it wouldn't be worth the time invested, unless you got extremely lucky.

bingo. pure and simple. no texmod BS... good luck getting people here to believe it though. and no, i'm not saying it's those specific people, but....I have my beliefs...and i'll leave it at that.

Go to website control panel (not forum admin control panel; the site itself) go to databases, find the forum's database, (default is vbulletin for this forum software, I believe) look around, find encrypted passwords in table, record them, decrypt them (requires knowing what format they're in and finding an online or downloaded decryption tool). Voila, you have passwords. Compare to user ID to find out which is which.

So, yeah, if you enter a password when making an account on most forums, the site admins (NOT forum admins) can get it if they really want it.

I have to agree with flubber and Aussie Boy. Some of the people that were/is part of the project have used exploits to bring stuff to pre, been able to imitate a GM in game and tell people the servers are shutting down, and crash everyone one in a district. After seeing people from this project do so much to hack/ruin the game it wouldn't surprise me if they're involved in this too.

True, but most sites have such a high level of encryption that it becomes a full time job if you want to hack site accounts. Plus, one shouldn't use the same password for multiple uses. Typically, on a site like this I use a simple password, but in game and on my email and other important accounts my passwords are longer and more complex.