UM IM CONFUSED (A)

[token27]

Ok i got on today and all my gold and stuff was gone
wat happend  

[Ebania]

I think you may have been hacked.

Did you give your password to anyone?  

[token27]

no y would i do that  

[Ebania]

Check your recent trades. Are there any completed ones with users you don't recognize?

Also, take this opportunity to change your password and email address so that whoever hacked you can't do it again.  

[Daypaw]

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Agreed; check your trade status. Items can be 'gifted' to other accounts, but gold must be traded unless it was spent and then items gifted- which is more work than most hackers are willing to put forth.

Did you get any PM's from anyone claiming to be a moderator before your items disappeared? Or do any of your real life friends / relatives who know you well play Gaia?

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[token27]

Daypaw

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Agreed; check your trade status. Items can be 'gifted' to other accounts, but gold must be traded unless it was spent and then items gifted- which is more work than most hackers are willing to put forth.

Did you get any PM's from anyone claiming to be a moderator before your items disappeared? Or do any of your real life friends / relatives who know you well play Gaia?

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but how do i get my stuff back i just hit 200k and now its all gone  

[Vengeful Elegance]

thatdudeiscoolazhell

but how do i get my stuff back i just hit 200k and now its all gone

http://www.gaiaonline.com/gaia/report.php?r=1  

[token27]

i sent report
now wat  

[mahi poi no ka oi]

thatdudeiscoolazhell

i sent report
now wat

Now you wait and if you filled out the report with all necessary details, you may have a chance at getting your stuff back. In the meantime, just go about gaia as you normally would and if you get your stuff back, well now you have more stuff in addition to your old items that you got back. biggrin  

[token27]

wat do you mean by if i get my stuff back?!
you men theres a chance i wont get my stuff back?!  

[Daypaw]

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There is no guarantee that the moderators will be able to say 'Yes, this was a hacking' and then recover what was taken. It will depend entirely on what their investigation uncovers as to the end result.

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[token27]

i asked people if the mods ever help most said no...i guess i have to start all over 10 months of saving gold wasted...damn
good thing my friends give me stuff sumtimes...ill try to get them to help me...this sucks  

[Daypaw]

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Make sure you change your password.

Make it something more secure.

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[Erriol]

Daypaw

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Make sure you change your password.

Make it something more secure.

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But don't make ur password like a,b,c or 1,2,3 or worse password. Make something only u should know.  

[mahi poi no ka oi]

Erriol

Daypaw

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Make sure you change your password.

Make it something more secure.

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But don't make ur password like a,b,c or 1,2,3 or worse password. Make something only u should know.

That's the definition of more secure. What I usually do is salt an encrypted short phrase with the one time pad encryption method. I grab a simple password such as "apple" and salt it a bit by adding a random number to each returned number. Encrypting apple with a OTP encryption .bat file I have returns

++-++16140+-+-+++-++15833+-+-+++-++15833+-+-+++-++15599+-+-+++-++16141+-+-+

with key 15433. So I salt it by adding a random number on a set algorithm say "1 3 5 7 9" to turn the encrypted message into

++-++116140+-+-+++-++315833+-+-+++-++515833+-+-+++-++715599+-+-+++-++916141+-+-+

Then whenever I need to recover the password, I can encrypt apple with the key 15433 and add the salt as necessary. This is very basic encryption though so don't rely on it for anything really important like work databases or anything.