Hackers You know what i would like to suggest??
That maybe ankama should either recompensate p2p characters that have had there accounts hacked and items stolen
or mabe look into the hackers that hack into accounts. Is there not a way of checking th Ip adress of the lgger and if it is different from the default a secret question is asked??
The Character that hacked me has an alt who is a pink female osa on the shika server she has already started selling my stuff because i cant get on the support site.

Isnt that great!

Edit : name removed

Why do people call it "hacking" when they simply trusted someone with their password?

Ankama can't simply give you your stuff back. Otherwise there would be people reporting fake scams and getting double their items.
It would be nice though if there could be another password you'd have to enter to change your IP address for your account, although this wouldn't stop gullible people (aka suckers) from trusting people with their passwords.

Lesson learned? Don't give anyone your password, even if they are your online lover. lol

They shouldn't even know the account name you use to log in with...
Never give any personal information. Especially if you use that same information in your username and passwords.

well if she has your account then it anit hacking its simply going on it and how can we belive you? it's not like that everyday this happens XD joke well if the perosn is hacking then report to a in-game mod

"Hacking" can have three reasons, that I can think of.

• Shared account and other person was not trustworthy.
• Viewed a phishing site and thus transmitted user details to the thief.
• Password too easy to guess.

Now, I really can't see how Ankama should take responsibility for any of these. Account sharing is prohibited (see red message when you log in), phishing websites have an odd URL and Ankama advise in several places on their website not to trust any websites except theirs. And easy passwords ... well, there is even a password quality check when you create your account. So realistically, out of these three, it is all the player's fault.

As for the IP check, most people are on DHCP addresses, meaning they are going to change frequently. If you allow a range you might as well allow the lot. And quite frankly, I travel a lot, if I was asked a secret question each time I log in I'd be really annoyed.

As mentioned above, it rarely ever is actual hacking. Hackers are people who are very good when it comes to computers and can bypass all the security which Ankama have put in, lets be honest, if your that smart your not gonna hack some random person on a MMORPG, and if you were then you'd hack a high player. None of the decent people I know have been 'hacked', why? Because they don't take risks. Don't share you password with someone, simple as. Also as said above, there's no way really for Ankama to reinbursr your stuff, how do they know when somethings hacked and when somethings not? You could say well if it's a one sided deal then it must be, but what about if your giving a friend items, or you have multiple account. The simple awnser is, don't take a risk, don't visit dodgy websites, don't give out your details.

You are giving them too much credit. These "hackers" aren't actually that smart. It is the victims that are too gullible or careless. I don't think there are any real hackers around that go through the effort of breaking into this game by any really smart means. Usually it is just a phishing site that has only one page and if the victim would have clicked on any of the links or even just looked at the URL they'd never given their user details. Or they just "lent" their character to somebody in game. No offense, but it really is more about the stupidity of the victims than the genius of the offender.

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Hey, I know this shouldn't really be in the hacking section but I think it's something to really keep an eye on and think of a solution to.

Well my friend told me that in the next dofus update that person was going to be a Game Mod, and told me that it was listed on ---> URL REMOVED BY MOD <--- ... DO NOT go on this site and enter your details (like I foolishly did), little did I know that it was a copy site until I later went back to that site to find out that it was a Freewebs page very well done to look exactly like the real Dofus site. The horrible thing is, that account that got stolen was P2P, and because support is only for P2P I couldn't do anything about it. I know this was majorly my fault for not double checking but I think there should be a nicer way around this.

Anyways take care all and make sure to check that http hehe.

Old-Cloud

If your hacked its your own bloody fault. I give you no sympathy, and neither should Ankama.
They should crack down on spammers advertising phishing websites however.

This post has been edited by EvaPilot: 26 Oct 2008, 23:10

who the hell made bot websites and hacking websites?

Wow.

Those "hacking websites" are nothing more than phishing websites, and what you call a "hacker" I call a scammer / cheater.
Hacking is extremely hard and thus very rare in less known games.
If you find a Bow Meow with a +9999 Damage on it, that would be hacking (more properly modding).
Another way of hacking is via illegal malwares (taking Keylogs as an example).

I'm not pretty sure about Bots though, it can be left to one's perspective.
If your definition of a hacker is ;someone who makes use of illegal softwares to modify or damage another software or get acess to private data;
Bots make use of those whilst putting other players' safety in danger.

Right, hackers is some1 or something that hacks into the systum and messes around with the stuff whille moding aka modifiying stuff is like that +9999damege as mingal said so hacking isnt moding like a +9999dmaege bowmeow hasnt been hacked it has been moded

This post has been edited by Kyubi-Attack: 7 Dec 2008, 00:12

Well to be honest its not always the players fault, there is hackers out there in the world that has a hacking system or something like that, usally it is just the easy password to guess or someone giveing acc however, i havnt given no one my acc and its been hacked, the password had numbers and punctiation (dont foget secret question), if they can know all of that inorder to hack there must be a system of some sort, refering to the first statment ankama would be helpful if they could check if IP adress if they can, to try find out who is the .

Skel-fighter-Coolrhys

BOOOOOOOORING! Seriously I'm sick to death of hearing about people being "Hacked"... your stupidity spoils the game for me and I really distance myself from anyone who says that they have been hacked.

The thing that annoys me the most about you people, is that you not only let yourself down but you let your friends down too. If you think about the time spent on dropping mats for equipment and then you foolishly allow some dickhead access to your account (or visit a phising website etc), you have wasted not only your time but others as well.

Phew! Rant over :x

So by your point of view it's people's fault that they are not fully aware of the dangers and are also responsible if they get KeyLogged.
Sure one has to be cautious, but it's our duty to help prevent these accidents by informing people.
You may have been gifted with intelligence and self-awareness, but you must remind yourself that other people may not be as smart as you, infact there
is a lot of ignorance in this world.
It's not over, not yet, it will not end so soon.

Yes... it is people's own fault if they are not aware, ignorance is not an excuse! There is information out there about keylogging and scams on the community website.

My main gripe is the lack of responsibility people take for being "hacked"... yes it must be horrible and distressing to lose everything you have worked so hard for, but come on... you gave your details to someone, your fault surely. As for keylogging, well some learn the hard way I guess.

The thing I find incredibly frustrating is the people who have not been hacked once, but twice, three and I even know someone who has had it happen four times. How stupid can you be!!

There are many people, what you're doing is putting them all in a 'sack'.
I'm talking, not about those who don't give a damn and don't even bother to read the information, but those who are not informed.
The lack of knowledge is a hacker's favourite attribute.

Hacking is not scamming. Scamming is when someone use a trick or such to steal an account, items, or kamas from you. Hacking is when someone actually finds a way to HACK into your account. Yes, this is actually possible to do although it doesn't happen often. The most common hacking target is the bank i believe, considering the amount of people i have heard saying that all their kamas in the bank where stolen. Personally i think ankama should introduce a program/system that makes it possible to see what someone was doing at a certain time. This may already exist, but even it it does ankama should definitely improve their services for those who have been scammed/hacked.

That was basically what I said, yet having trouble to inform all this people.
So I'm thinking ignorance is not bliss as they say, it's the source of all this trouble.

Yh people just trick u into giving them ur account. or maybe some evil genius has made a program that hacks 'dofus'? i dunno?