WTH plz read and help me

Spazed Lemur

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Apr 2006

502

OK so i tried to sign onto my 2nd account today on guild wars and come to find that Everything is gone!All my characters,All my gold and ALL my f'in WEAPONS!!!!!! WTH is going on ! everything is jus gone! My first account still works fine but My second one is jus totally deleted! Plz reply back to this ASAP....I want to know why my crap is gone! I can still sign onto the account but ...My chars are gone and it basically asks me from the start do i want a role playing or pvp char....Plz fix this or atleast compensate for my loss somehow! Cuz this is jus complete uder bs... ..If you can't tell i'm very very irate about this!

ange1

ange1

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2005

Mo/

someone hacked your account

Spazed Lemur

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Apr 2006

502

Plz I need more of a awnser then that... Like there's nothing that gets compensated back? Anet jus sits on there butt and does there so called "investigation" or do they even do anything about it at all?? I guess they pry don't do nothing at all seeings how they got there money already so what do they care......

Murder In China

Murder In China

Banned

Join Date: Sep 2005

/B/Chan

Looking for one

W/

Check for keyloggers, trojans and etc.

Spazed Lemur

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Apr 2006

502

yeah no virus's,keyloggers at all....so why is all my stuff gone now???

Murder In China

Murder In China

Banned

Join Date: Sep 2005

/B/Chan

Looking for one

W/

Then someone somehow got ahold of your email address for that account and hacked the password for both your email and account. So I would change my email's password.

cannonfodder

cannonfodder

Tech Monkeh Mod

Join Date: May 2005

Good Old North East of England

Mo/Me

You are asking the wrong people, yes we can tell you the possiblities around what happened, but you need to go to http://guildwars.com and hit the support tab and log a ticket. Thats what you should do in theory, but they will be unable to do anything about it.

Spazed Lemur

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Apr 2006

502

but why wouldn't they steal the whole account then?? and i've done that already....i hadn't signed onto the account for a week..and this crap happens...i had so much gold on that account and all the greens and my mule on that account for my crafting materials..including my rare crafting materials....i'm so mad its not even funny right now

Yanman.be

Yanman.be

Banned

Join Date: Dec 2005

Belgium

[ROSE]

A/

they rather give you your account back, then hack it after some while, and get the money back you've earned in that time

Poison Ivy

Poison Ivy

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jan 2006

Toronto

Hopping

Mo/A

Quote:
Originally Posted by Yanman.be
they rather give you your account back, then hack it after some while, and get the money back you've earned in that time
Why delete the guy's characters...

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...ad.php?t=76027
Should keep your computer clean for a while

Change your password.

MarieJo005

MarieJo005

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Oct 2005

Iowa, USA

N/Me

Ok, so, my reasoning on why I don't think that he was hacked unless the "hacker" does it for the joy of deleting the characters. His guild roster says that he hasnt been on for a week right after he finds out he is hacked. There for the "hacker" never signed on to one of the characters and doesnt know what he even has on the characters. So that makes me wonder what he hacked or was there some mess up w/ guild wars. I dont see why someone would hack an account to just delete that characters. So since the guild roster shows he never signed in on either of his characters then the "hacker" didnt make off w/ NE thing just deleted characters. (I know I'm repeating myself) So this all confuses me on if it was a hack or something else went wrong.

-Marie Jo

(I'm the -victims- fiance, reasoning for knowing more than what he said)

Teklord

Teklord

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2005

Lloyd.ab.ca

Lords of All

R/Mo

My take. There are a million and one ways to retrieve / figure out a person's e-mail address and password to go with it. This gets considerably easier when you know the person in real life and if one happens to have physically access to a computer that account logs in from. However in that end the how they got it isn't really all that important as it is done. The usual run scans / change passwords will continue to apply.

The why on the other hand in response to post #11 I have my on thought on. No one truely knows just how much logging of actions and transactions Arena Net does, but it is very safe to assume that nearly ever action can be traced back to a log. Therefore once the 'hacker' (for lack of a better term) has gained access to the account, he/she would not be doing themselves a favor by trading / items to his/her own characters for personal gain. If once reported to Arena Net they see in the logs that all this person's belongings went to characters on one or two other accounts it could be viewed that those accounts belong or are related to the 'hacker'. This could result, if it could be proved, in those accounts being terminated. So in the end we have a bad person wanting to do bad things, but smart enough not to do anything that directly point back at him/her-self. That is assuming that the characters were indeed never logged in with and that they were deleted right after gaining access to the account.

Riplox

Riplox

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Apr 2005

North Carolina

Shrophire Protectors [Lion]

W/

Do you live with anyone else? Do you have the account passwords written down? See where I'm going?

MarieJo005

MarieJo005

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Oct 2005

Iowa, USA

N/Me

lol... he lives w/ our daughter who is 1y/o and myself and no the password isnt written down NE where. So that's not really an option.