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Account stolen and Evony new account security
I m writing this post as i just need to get this off my chest as reminder to others and in desperation over what happened less than 24h ago to good friend of mine.
As you can guess from title his account was stolen. How this was done remains mystery, this is not guy that will cheat or fall for a promise of quick prestige money etc in game. This is one of the hardest and best players in game that I know and we played this game for long time. Our best guess is that he had some kind of Trojan plated on his PC. So I was online when account was stolen and it happen in less than 10 min. Once we realized that person in possession of his account is not our good friend was already too late. New Evony account security measures allowed culprit to change email (add secondary Email) and account was lost. Resetting password could not be done, if there would not be those new changes account could off been rescued. In next few minutes after that the top Hero (4th on the server) was sold/given to a host of another alliance on server for price of 120 USD.
Many of you will say how do we know it is stolen well the best part is culprit admitting, here it is transcript of conversation from this culprit from account in question:
<3:11>From [fff] : ill give you your account back
<3:13>From [fff] : For a price.
<3:13>From [fff] : your get everything back unscathed
<3:13>To [fff]: and why would you be so kind?
<3:13>From [fff] : For a price.
<3:13>From [fff] : your get everything back unscathed
<3:14>To [fff]: what kinda person are you.. its a game.. you are scum!!
<3:14>From [fff] : I have my button on reset righ tnow
<3:16>From [fff] : Say good bye to city number 1
<3:16>From [fff]: whata beauty
<3:17>From [fff] : Gone.
<3:17>From [fff] : Shall we continue?
<3:23>From [fff] : you dont mess with poolace
As you can also see this looks like it has been done on purpose targeted, as "fff" did quite some damage to the Poolace alliance. Was this a response on him planting his war city next to VH of Poolace? I also have been told that similar fortune happened to other players that have been a threat to Poolace or 300 alliance, unfortunately I cant confirm this information. Is this where this game is going?
By the way we belive culprit email is ******beta@gmail.com so if anybody know him please tell us about it.
By the looks of it account is gone now and person is devastated I don t know if Evony people will do anything about reinstating of his account to state before it was stolen and reset. He invested a lots of time and money in this game just to be lost to a thief. And what will be done to prevent future accidents like that, as it is hardly any of my friends fault. I played around and also noticed that Evony when you reset you password send email with your new password in plain text to you, now that is big security leak. I would love to hear some comments from Evony representative on this as I believe this a real issue now. And for all other players please setup and change your secondary email twice that way nobody can change it again and do what was done to my friend.
Last edited by WhiteMDK; 12-13-2009 at 07:35 PM.
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