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Hacked, (the storey as I know it) Wednesday 29/02/02

Well the first thing I must say is that I was being a naughty boy but I don't think that has a bearing on what happened.

Yesterday I had left a char macroing in my house, while I was called out for a plumbing job, (5min job I thought Ha!) 4 hours later I came home to find my client closed, well must have run out of materials and the clients closed by inactivity, I thought.

I tried to log back in but my password was not working, shit I've been caught , I thought, so I tried to log in another account, no joy so thinking it a bit strange that 2 of my accounts should have been banned for one char macroing I tried the third, yes joy, it worked so at least I've got an account to play with till I work out my jail term.

Then I tried to retrieve my passwords from OSI using the forgotten password facility on the accounts menu and on one of them it recovered the password and sent me an e mail telling me that my password was now losers4ever, the plot thickens and gradually creeping over me was the realization that I had not been banned but hacked.

I immediately changed the password and logged in and found Plumbellina somewhere in tram that I knew I hadn't left her, so i got her back to fel and to Serps bank and look in her account, shock, horror, empty ( as it happens much like my R/L bank account ), Plumbellina is the main treasure not only for THB but also for my other accounts, so in total there was roughly 18 mill in gps checks regs in deeds and rares and so forth all that was left was a small pile of gps, so I logged out and closed the account.

I, using unaccustomed and rarely used logic tried to log in my other account using the same password and it worked, losers4ever ( Talk about insult to injury ), changed the password checked the bank, hmmm nothing much missing here, logged out and closed the account.

So why haven't they cleaned out the account?.

The previous day my prodigal R/L G/F had asked me to friend her char Tundi to the guild house, which I did, when I contacted her she said that a couple of hours previously she had seen Plumbellina in the house when she logged in and Plumbellina ( Couldn't have been me, I was at work ) had tried to ban her, but being friended, couldn't, Tundi said 'oi what you up to' and Plumbellina said ' sorry wrong macro, got to rush' and promptly vanished, well my G/F thought that it was me and that I had the hump, so thought no more about it.

It looks like my G/F had disturbed the hackers in mid looting, I haven't looked in the house yet to see what is missing, but the house is still there, albeit transferred to my G/Fs account for the time being.

Summary

They have hacked my main account (Plumbellina's) and cleaned out her bank, they have hacked my 2nd account ( Garwen's ) but did not have time to clean it out, no doubt my 3rd account would have been next but they did not have time before they were discovered, as it stands all my accounts have now had their passwords changed and have been temporarily suspended, I've installed zone alarm and am in the process of doing a check for Viruses and Trojans.

It looks like the end for me in UO, but before the vultures gather, no, I wont be giving anything away just yet till I sort out my feelings and assess the damage, which wont be until things die down a bit and I'm sure I have no Trojans etc.

Update,

Ive logged in with Tundi today and found everything in the guild house intact so it appears I have been very lucky and unlucky at the same time.