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Hacked & Lost 1b. A warning/reminder to other players!
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Before I go into this, it was my own stupid fault, i had no bank pin, no 'JAG' set up, only recovery questions (as i'm only familiar with the security systems pre-2010, and was too lazy to look into/set up the newer security systems)
I came back 2 weeks ago after hearing the 07 servers were coming back, i played for 2 days or so on EOC rs while waiting for the servers to launch, and I have to say I didn't find it that bad, it was actually quite fun to play, i like some of the graphic updates (sorry to those oldschool rs'ers who hate everything about the new rs)
Anyway, when the 07 servers launched i went straight into woodcutting with my friend, both of us were in the top 100 wc'ers for the first week of the servers (he is ranked around 20 still, around 88 wc, as he carried on) I've probably dropped to like rank 1000 by now, as i stopped wc'ing when i reached 75.
I'd made around 2m on 07 from the logs i had cut (mostly from yews), and I had been trading the money I had been making on 07 for money on EOC rs (as I planned to continue playing that after a few weeks or so of 07 nostalgia), I traded mostly in 500k chunks, for the first 3 days or so the 07/EOC rates were about 1k/1m, so i traded that first 500k for 500m EOC money, then made another 500k within 4 days or so, which i then traded for about 250m EOC, then the next 2 500k's were around 100m each.
I decided to stop after i had reached 1b on EOC rs, as that was my primary target and I had had enough of cutting logs for 12 hours a day
I spent a few days just chillin' and deciding what I should spend all my money on (I was dead set on buying a purple phat- which would be my first phat), then I had to go away for a few days down to a studio in bath, and didn't have a laptop with me so couldn't play RS while I was there, while I was there my friend texted me that he had been hacked (the one who is no. 20 worldwide), they had taken all of his logs and seeds from birds nests that he had gathered over 2 weeks, valuable items etc (about 3m in total)
But he managed to get his account back, and continued WC'ing regardless.
Anyway, that got me worried about my account, as I knew that I have no bank pin, and realized that I could quite easily get hacked, also when i logged off a few days before I had left 980m in my money pouch (derp) so they would be able to get my stuff even easier (as I hadn't bought anything of value, so that 980m was pretty much everything I owned, except for a few tree hats and fish masks).
When I got back home, I logged on my RS account and everything was fine, the money was still in my pouch and I hadn't been hacked, but I still knew that I needed to add a bank pin and change my password just in-case so I did.
Then I woke up the next morning, logged into RS and instantly saw "last logged in earlier today from ----- (an IP that certainly WASN'T mine).
I instantly freaked and knew what had happened, sure enough, when I logged I saw "0" in my pouch (I hadn't put my money in the bank 'cause their was no point, they said the pin would take 3 days to come into effect).
For the first 5 minutes I felt like i was dreaming, I couldn't take in what had happened, over 100 hours clicking trees for 2 weeks, then it was all gone...
I informed a friend of mine who is good at dealing with viruses/hackers and such, he told me I probably had a RAT (remote administration tool) that can actively hi-jack your computer, log what you are writing, see your screen and everything, that's how he got my pass so easily.
He told me to run various anti-ware software, then system restore my comp, which I did (to a time before i started playing RS again, which I hope is before I got this RAT, otherwise he is probably watching what i'm writing right now...
I think I probably got it in an email link or just a link I saw somewhere (I really need to be more careful about clicking random links, especially with this whole ordeal I have become much more aware about phishing links and viruses, and the importance of account safety.
Anyway, I'm not fully sure why I wrote this whole thread, kudos if you bothered to read the whole thing, I just needed somewhere to vent my frustration/sadness, and to warn some other people if I can...
NEVER click links unless you are fully sure that the website is legit, same with downloads, make sure your account is safe (I really wish I had JAG set up, it seems a pretty good safety net, make sure you have a bank pin set and don't log off with valuable items in your inventory/pouch, I don't want this crap to happen to other players (who worked hard to get the cash).
Oh, I just realized this may look as a cry for help/plea for someone to give me money or something, I am in NO way asking for money, I will continue trying to make my way back up to what I had, but I doubt someone is just going to give me the entire 1b back.
Thanks for reading (those of you who read all of this) and I hope you will take many steps to protect yourself from hackers/viruses if you haven't already, otherwise this may happen to you.
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I came back 2 weeks ago after hearing the 07 servers were coming back, i played for 2 days or so on EOC rs while waiting for the servers to launch, and I have to say I didn't find it that bad, it was actually quite fun to play, i like some of the graphic updates (sorry to those oldschool rs'ers who hate everything about the new rs)
Anyway, when the 07 servers launched i went straight into woodcutting with my friend, both of us were in the top 100 wc'ers for the first week of the servers (he is ranked around 20 still, around 88 wc, as he carried on) I've probably dropped to like rank 1000 by now, as i stopped wc'ing when i reached 75.
I'd made around 2m on 07 from the logs i had cut (mostly from yews), and I had been trading the money I had been making on 07 for money on EOC rs (as I planned to continue playing that after a few weeks or so of 07 nostalgia), I traded mostly in 500k chunks, for the first 3 days or so the 07/EOC rates were about 1k/1m, so i traded that first 500k for 500m EOC money, then made another 500k within 4 days or so, which i then traded for about 250m EOC, then the next 2 500k's were around 100m each.
I decided to stop after i had reached 1b on EOC rs, as that was my primary target and I had had enough of cutting logs for 12 hours a day
I spent a few days just chillin' and deciding what I should spend all my money on (I was dead set on buying a purple phat- which would be my first phat), then I had to go away for a few days down to a studio in bath, and didn't have a laptop with me so couldn't play RS while I was there, while I was there my friend texted me that he had been hacked (the one who is no. 20 worldwide), they had taken all of his logs and seeds from birds nests that he had gathered over 2 weeks, valuable items etc (about 3m in total)
But he managed to get his account back, and continued WC'ing regardless.
Anyway, that got me worried about my account, as I knew that I have no bank pin, and realized that I could quite easily get hacked, also when i logged off a few days before I had left 980m in my money pouch (derp) so they would be able to get my stuff even easier (as I hadn't bought anything of value, so that 980m was pretty much everything I owned, except for a few tree hats and fish masks).
When I got back home, I logged on my RS account and everything was fine, the money was still in my pouch and I hadn't been hacked, but I still knew that I needed to add a bank pin and change my password just in-case so I did.
Then I woke up the next morning, logged into RS and instantly saw "last logged in earlier today from ----- (an IP that certainly WASN'T mine).
I instantly freaked and knew what had happened, sure enough, when I logged I saw "0" in my pouch (I hadn't put my money in the bank 'cause their was no point, they said the pin would take 3 days to come into effect).
For the first 5 minutes I felt like i was dreaming, I couldn't take in what had happened, over 100 hours clicking trees for 2 weeks, then it was all gone...
I informed a friend of mine who is good at dealing with viruses/hackers and such, he told me I probably had a RAT (remote administration tool) that can actively hi-jack your computer, log what you are writing, see your screen and everything, that's how he got my pass so easily.
He told me to run various anti-ware software, then system restore my comp, which I did (to a time before i started playing RS again, which I hope is before I got this RAT, otherwise he is probably watching what i'm writing right now...
I think I probably got it in an email link or just a link I saw somewhere (I really need to be more careful about clicking random links, especially with this whole ordeal I have become much more aware about phishing links and viruses, and the importance of account safety.
Anyway, I'm not fully sure why I wrote this whole thread, kudos if you bothered to read the whole thing, I just needed somewhere to vent my frustration/sadness, and to warn some other people if I can...
NEVER click links unless you are fully sure that the website is legit, same with downloads, make sure your account is safe (I really wish I had JAG set up, it seems a pretty good safety net, make sure you have a bank pin set and don't log off with valuable items in your inventory/pouch, I don't want this crap to happen to other players (who worked hard to get the cash).
Oh, I just realized this may look as a cry for help/plea for someone to give me money or something, I am in NO way asking for money, I will continue trying to make my way back up to what I had, but I doubt someone is just going to give me the entire 1b back.
Thanks for reading (those of you who read all of this) and I hope you will take many steps to protect yourself from hackers/viruses if you haven't already, otherwise this may happen to you.
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ouch... That must be verry painfull seeing the 100 hours of work vanished in just a few hours... You made me put a bank pin and a security question on my acc now :2thumbsup:
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goldenxshadow wrote ouch... That must be verry painfull seeing the 100 hours of work vanished in just a few hours... You made me put a bank pin and a security question on my acc now :2thumbsup:
Yes it was..
Glad I could help some people before the same thing happens to them ^_^
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I kind of know what you feel like. I got lured for a santa hat and a tree hat last week but i'm slowly working my way up again.
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