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losing everything characters, items, and castle. Then looking for help and not getting any from GMs kinda hurts.
Your account was still paid up and your stuff was gone? You didn't stop paying and your castle fell? But it would still be odd your characters were all gone...losing everything characters, items, and castle. Then looking for help and not getting any from GMs kinda hurts.
Exactly the same thing happened to my uo friend six years ago. That’s absolutely possible.Your account was still paid up and your stuff was gone? You didn't stop paying and your castle fell? But it would still be odd your characters were all gone...
It’s good that you’ve never seen this kind of cheatings. Just play as a good citizen, keep your personal info in secret, and dont use the 3rd party programs if you are not so sure.I have heard a lot of weird things from returning players, but is there some policy of clearing old accounts? That's a bit worrying.... Surely if the account was hacked the password would be changed? Sorry if I sound a bit dumb, I don't have any experience of hacking and stuff. Just trying to puzzle out what happened here!
What is not possible?It's not possible. If you don't want to bother protecting yourself against hackers that come up with new tools everyday and from basic Phishing, at least change your password yourself weekly and never use the same password on multiple sites.
You would think but not really. Most will run a list of known logins from other compromised sites to test against the server. These attackers will use lists of username/password combos that literally number in the hundreds of thousands of logins. The software the attacker uses can test 100k+ combinations an hour. Eventually they will get access unless the system is setup to block an IP after a certain number of failed logins. Even then proxies can be used to eliminate that issue.One of the biggest issues is that if an account is down even if you get the password wrong you it tells you that the account is down, telling you that the account id is correct.
From there you could wait until it gives you the message the password is incorrect meaning the account is active and then try to brute force it, but that would take a considerable amount of time or resources.
Very prudent. Also you should aviod using the same password for multiple accounts. That way if one of your logins are compromised then at least your other accpunts will still be safe. As far as I know you can not change your username.So, it seems changing your login once in awhile would also be prudent. Is it possible to change the login (not just the pw)?
Yeah, passwords are a given. I believe a password manager that generates random passwords is a must these days. But in the absence of 2-factor authentication, username may be the weak point. And people who created their account 20 years ago may have used that same username on hundreds of sites since then.Very prudent. Also you should aviod using the same password for multiple accounts. That way if one of your logins are compromised then at least your other accpunts will still be safe. As far as I know you can not change your username.
There are a couple of problems with the secret word thing...Where can we see/change the secret word?
True, and not true. My main account was "hacked" 7 years or so ago. I logged into my second account to see one of my main characters on my first account rifling through the chests in my second account house. Wanna freak sometime, walk into THAT **** lol. I immediately removed all access to that house but a lot of damage had been done. In vent, I talked to guildies who went to my keep and entertained the "hacker". Asked him to check out some other characters on the main account. In the meantime, I was on the phone to EA. After talking to EA, they locked the account down. A good friend in RL and guild, got the guy to log out and check out another character and he too was locked out of the account. I then went through holy hell getting the account back.i had heard that if your using a account that wasn't originally yours that the original owners can actually get them back from under you.
not sure if its true or not, but if you call EA and give them the number off your original CD you used when creating the account they will give you the account back irregardless of the activity it has had or is having.
not an issue for me as all my accounts that i use are mine and have always been mine, but food for thought for people who run with accounts they purchased or where gifted.
It took me a few emails and about 5 business days. Not too shabby to recover about $200 in upgrades and features.I put a secret word on a account years ago and have no clue what it is lol
Trying to recover old accounts is beyond a joke, I have tried a few times a gave up just opened new ones.
I usual open up old or new accounts to transfer houses.