Hacking chances atm

SilkTraveler · **Joined:** Feb 2008 **Posts:** 78 **Location:**

I would like to know if SRO at the moment is any safer from account hacking than before, since now it has that Secure email thing that doesnt let you change your password at all, or your security question.

I was trying to change my pass to one safer (with 12 random numbers and letters) and notice it's a lot harder to change it now than it was before.

So, what you guys think?

Deacon · **Joined:** May 2006 **Posts:** 4377 **Location:** De Dutch

Safe, but not safe enough

w00t · **Posted:** Fri Feb 22, 2008 1:27 pm

Silkroad isnt and I guess never will be "save"

Rush4Life · **Joined:** Jan 2008 **Posts:** 408 **Location:**

as long as you don't download crap from the internet, and keep your password safe, you should be OK

Super8 · **Joined:** Feb 2008 **Posts:** 119 **Location:**

make sure you use email verification with a new email just for the sro account, make the address something like you would make a secure password.
write it down on Paper, keep it in a dresser or somewhere safe / it won't be lost

therefore.. if you get hacked, at least you can keep your account and not have to start all over..

also, if you have like 1b+ gold you should probably spread it out over an account or two.. so if you did get hacked you would still have gold to get back on your feet

remember that if you get hacked.. it may be a keylogger - do NOT try to change your password with the email and secret answer method on the same computer or your account is gone for good.

Tokughavita · **Joined:** Apr 2006 **Posts:** 789 **Location:**

lol my login name starts with a Q, is a word in the dictionary, is longer than 9 letters but shorter than 16 and my password is 1q2w3esas

good luck

non ego man · **Posted:** Fri Feb 22, 2008 10:32 pm

Tokughavita wrote:

lol my login name starts with a X, is a word in the dictionary, is longer than 9 letters but shorter than 16 and my password is XXXXXXXXX

good luck

I hope you're not on the 500k account list or that may reduce the amount of time needed to hack your account considerably. Maybe you should edit your post.

sama98b · **Joined:** Feb 2007 **Posts:** 1428 **Location:**

SilkTraveler wrote:

I would like to know if SRO at the moment is any safer from account hacking than before, since now it has that Secure email thing that doesnt let you change your password at all, or your security question.

I was trying to change my pass to one safer (with 12 random numbers and letters) and notice it's a lot harder to change it now than it was before.

So, what you guys think?

If getting keyloged they will steal all your login/password info email included.
New email exploits come and get fixed all the time, if used email address gets public
it's just a question of effort.

larroxx · **Posted:** Fri Feb 22, 2008 10:36 pm

lol if sro was save there wouldt be so many topics :O i got hacked ... Anyways i think Joymax is trying his bast to make it save enough .. But w/e

sama98b · **Joined:** Feb 2007 **Posts:** 1428 **Location:**

larroxx wrote:

lol if sro was save there wouldt be so many topics :O i got hacked ... Anyways i think Joymax is trying his bast to make it save enough .. But w/e

You find the reason why so many ppl getting hacked on other forums (loader/no-dc/multi/keyloged).
And whoever not hacked, well you can see server load staus ....
It's not the goldbot company that is filling it up now, can tell you that.

Tokughavita · **Joined:** Apr 2006 **Posts:** 789 **Location:**

non ego man wrote:

Tokughavita wrote:

lol my login name starts with a X, is a word in the dictionary, is longer than 9 letters but shorter than 16 and my password is XXXXXXXXX

good luck

I hope you're not on the 500k account list or that may reduce the amount of time needed to hack your account considerably. Maybe you should edit your post.

I guarantee you I will not get hacked, even with that info, no one could guess my info

and what is the 500k account list?

non ego man · **Posted:** Fri Feb 22, 2008 11:14 pm

Tokughavita wrote:

non ego man wrote:

Tokughavita wrote:

lol my login name starts with a X, is a word in the dictionary, is longer than 9 letters but shorter than 16 and my password is XXXXXXXXX

good luck

I hope you're not on the 500k account list or that may reduce the amount of time needed to hack your account considerably. Maybe you should edit your post.

I guarantee you I will not get hacked, even with that info, no one could guess my info

and what is the 500k account list?

Someone posted a list of 500k account id's (not a typo-five hundred thousand account id's). Apparently it contained legit accounts on it as well so it may have been farmed from JM during the original SRO forum security breach. Give me your account ID and I'll check to see if it's on there. :roll:

superfatmexican · **Joined:** May 2007 **Posts:** 154 **Location:**

hmmmm ALL my friends have been hacked an they stopped playin sro... except for one which surprisingly has gone to lvl 45 in about 3 weeks... ODD =/

ping_lo · **Joined:** Oct 2006 **Posts:** 911 **Location:**

they closed the published portal exploit. people however can and still are getting their accounts stolen via portal exploits. joymax has never been what anyone could mistake as a competent company. the few competent people they hired had their hands tied so bad they may as well have never showed to work. so for the time you play sro remember this. you might loose your account at any moment due to joymax exposing your info. it will be all your fault joymax will do nothing to fix it. so play every moment like it was your last. be thankfull every day things are as you left them. as long as joymax operates sro there is no security.

ShadowReaver · **Joined:** Jan 2008 **Posts:** 335 **Location:**

If you have other language on your keyboard than english the best way to make secure passwords is to choose words from the other language and type it when u are on english, all my pw's goes like -> nvvnmctjh and a random number. impossible to guess, only to keylog.
and well, it's pretty easy to remember even without writing it cause it's actually real words.

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