So I was hacked...

Alreko Rin

Alreko Rin

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Apr 2009

Knights of the Dark Raven [WvW]

Mo/Me

About 3 days ago I decided to get back on Guild Wars after my little break I had. At first, I didn't seem to realized that all my stuff was gone. I then logged on again a few hours later, realizing that all my stuff was gone, I freaked. I had lost all of my gold, my mini pets, and the person who decided to do this to me even deleted one of my characters (luckily it was a pretty shitty char). I felt like writing this because I was wondering if you guys had any ideas why someone would want to hack me, for no reason too. Usually I act friendly and helpful to people on Guild Wars.

Anyone have ideas?

Jenn

Jenn

Resigned.

Join Date: Sep 2006

1) 99% chance you weren't hacked. Either security lacks on your end (weak password, or you gave your info to someone), or you picked up some sort of keylogger.

2) There's probably a different reason for every "victim." The reason is quite irrelevant - all you need to know is that someone didn't care enough about you and decided to screw you over.

3) As unfortunate as this is for you, I'm not sure why you had to make a thread to ask, "why me?" Surely you could've figured this out on your own?

4) There's nothing we can do here for ya. Since you still seem to have access to your account, I suggest you change your password & keep it secure. There isn't anything you can do to get your stuff back. If in the future you lose access to your account, contact arenanet's support team.

5) I like lists. ^_^

Alreko Rin

Alreko Rin

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Apr 2009

Knights of the Dark Raven [WvW]

Mo/Me

Well, I wasn't looking for help. I've accepted that I got RED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GOed over. Yeah, your right it is probably because of my weak password, however I have always kept my information safe and have never downloaded something or done something that could have contained a keylogger. I just want to see reply's on how people think this happened to me.

jonnieboi05

jonnieboi05

Forge Runner

Join Date: Mar 2006

Mableton, Georgia

Guild Ancestors Reunited [?????????]

too much pr0n imo; that's the #1 source right there.

on-topic: don't use same emails/passwords for websites and what not. that is a huge reason how people get their account jacked.

king swift

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jan 2007

Kamadan AD1

Zealots Of Shiverpeak [ZoS]

D/A

Question: Do you still have access to your email address the account is under. Sometimes people hack your email account and reset the password back to your email.

Just a thought.

lilraceangel3

lilraceangel3

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jan 2008

Western Mass

Passionate Kiss of the cats [Kiss]

W/N

It kinda sucks and Anet wont do much about it, so don't worry about why, pick yourself up, dust yourself off, change your PW and carry on...

Songbringer

Songbringer

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2007

EastCoast

E/Me

A guy is getting back into the game and no one says welcome back or do you need help? Just it is your fualt get over it...Well man here I am to say welcome back to guild wars I hope it is fun for you again. If you need help feel free to pm me on guru or in game. IGN Melony Songbringer. I won't give you money(because I don't give out money to anyone) but if I have a spare weapon or you need helping beating a mission I can probably hep you out.

Alreko Rin

Alreko Rin

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Apr 2009

Knights of the Dark Raven [WvW]

Mo/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by Songbringer View Post
A guy is getting back into the game and no one says welcome back or do you need help? Just it is your fualt get over it...Well man here I am to say welcome back to guild wars I hope it is fun for you again. If you need help feel free to pm me on guru or in game. IGN Melony Songbringer. I won't give you money(because I don't give out money to anyone) but if I have a spare weapon or you need helping beating a mission I can probably hep you out.
If you didn't read from above before, I'm not looking for help. Just looking at other peoples opinions on why they think I was hacked. I've given up on my chars that lost things when I was hacked so I've started a new character on Proph again, it's a lot of fun

Kattar

Kattar

EXCESSIVE FLUTTERCUSSING

Join Date: Mar 2007

SMS (lolgw2placeholder)

Me/

Send a support ticket to NCSoft support. There's nothing we can do for you here.