So yesterday I decided to get on RS for the first time in a nice few months, only to discover my password doesnt work. Thinking I just forgot it, I did an account recovery and was able to get into my account. Only to find that I now have 97 Defense (previous was 85) and 91 Constitution (Also 85 before hacker).

 

I did lost all of my items and such, but luckly he had left me enough green D hide and Dragon bones to be able to recover the important stuff.

 

My question to you, how would YOU feel if a hacker had made advancements onto your character without your knowledge?

 

Im kind of dissapointed, myself.

I'd probably just quit.

Sounds like you got hacked by gold farmers tbh.

Should I go in an cancel the members subscription that they left me with, or wait for it to run out? I dont want whoever hacked me to have any say over the future of the account, or if they could somehow reaquire it.

Cancel your membership. I think they get some code when they subscribe that can be used for recovery (further proof it is your acc, etc). Then do the usual routine of virus scan. Make a password using numbers, letters and symbols if you have a godly memory. Example: for4eh!l0[lz] (not a real password :P, but you get the point). Makes it harder to brute force your ass.

 

And to answer your question, if a hacker stole my account and pumped its stats, I would be [bleep]ing happy. I barely have any GPs or valuable [cabbage] anyway, so I'd profit quite a bit. Not saying I would set myself up to be vulnerable to someone hijacking my account, but still. Don't see how them boosting your stats is a bad thing as long as you can get your account back.

looks like you where hacked and then someone used your account to bot greens.

I wouldn't go on with that account, as it would feel like I didn't do it, which I would think all the time.

Cancel your membership. I think they get some code when they subscribe that can be used for recovery (further proof it is your acc, etc). Then do the usual routine of virus scan. Make a password using numbers, letters and symbols if you have a godly memory. Example: for4eh!l0[lz] (not a real password :P, but you get the point). Makes it harder to brute force your ass.

 

And to answer your question, if a hacker stole my account and pumped its stats, I would be [bleep]ing happy. I barely have any GPs or valuable [cabbage] anyway, so I'd profit quite a bit. Not saying I would set myself up to be vulnerable to someone hijacking my account, but still. Don't see how them boosting your stats is a bad thing as long as you can get your account back.

 

its actually safer to make a memorable password that is 4+ words long

It would piss me off because no matter the levels made I still feel accomplished when I see my skills because I know I made them not someone else.

I know that if anything happens on my account I am the one who did it. I like that. I'm happy to take the responsibility.

If my account was boosted after being hacked, well it has happened to me before. It doesn't feel like its your account anymore :/

I wouldn't go on with that account, as it would feel like I didn't do it, which I would think all the time.

 

Although I don't agree with you that skill accomplishments are very important...

 

Why abandon it? Even if they boosted your skills a little (or even a lot), you still remember all the fun times you had with your character, playing the game, and accomplishing things. Why quit the game or start from scratch when you still have a perfectly good character that can be used for other things?

it's probably getting banned soon it sounds like the guy botted hundreds of hours at green dragons with it.

it's probably getting banned soon it sounds like the guy botted hundreds of hours at green dragons with it.

 

Maybe, maybe not. If you want to keep playing on that account, I'd wait a couple weeks just incase something is being processed on Jagex's end and they are going to ban you. If you do get banned you can try to appeal and explain what happened. As soon as you do that, your account is likely to remain banned (denied appeal) or go on lock-down.

 

Still, you have to keep in mind that the goldfarmer has to profit from selling your account, something that can't happen if it gets banned before he can sell. You can be sure that the goldfarmer would at least be a little cautious about it, I think. Even if they botted hundreds of accounts at once, they'd still have to at least make sure that enough don't get banned so they can sell them off.

 

And people say that Jagex is very incompetent when it comes to banning botters, so...

 

 

EDIT: Since they were botting green dragons and selling the cash itself, then it's possible that they don't take much care at all to prevent it getting banned. Get one toon banned, go to the next.

 

Still... It probably won't get banned.

it's probably getting banned soon it sounds like the guy botted hundreds of hours at green dragons with it.

What makes you think that jagex will actually ban the account?

it's probably getting banned soon it sounds like the guy botted hundreds of hours at green dragons with it.

What makes you think that jagex will actually ban the account?

The fact that they ban most bots

This is actually an interesting situation. Honestly, I do not know what I would do if I found my account as such following a hack. If it was just my defense and hitpoints, I might just keep playing because I think I have put too much into my account to just quit that account. I only have one, so quitting it does not seem a likely option for me.

 

I agree with other posts above: cancel membership, change password, change recovery questions too.

 

I guess it is easier for them to hack accounts that have good enough levels for gold farming green dragons than to create and build them.

Whether you continue to play or not on that account, I still think you should do your best to secure it fully.

Cancel your membership. I think they get some code when they subscribe that can be used for recovery (further proof it is your acc, etc). Then do the usual routine of virus scan. Make a password using numbers, letters and symbols if you have a godly memory. Example: for4eh!l0[lz] (not a real password :P, but you get the point). Makes it harder to brute force your ass.

 

And to answer your question, if a hacker stole my account and pumped its stats, I would be [bleep]ing happy. I barely have any GPs or valuable [cabbage] anyway, so I'd profit quite a bit. Not saying I would set myself up to be vulnerable to someone hijacking my account, but still. Don't see how them boosting your stats is a bad thing as long as you can get your account back.

 

its actually safer to make a memorable password that is 4+ words long

 

Yeah... in the 80's

 

brute force dictionaries use random word combos.

I wouldn't go on with that account, as it would feel like I didn't do it, which I would think all the time.

 

Although I don't agree with you that skill accomplishments are very important...

 

Why abandon it? Even if they boosted your skills a little (or even a lot), you still remember all the fun times you had with your character, playing the game, and accomplishing things. Why quit the game or start from scratch when you still have a perfectly good character that can be used for other things?

Because I am a completionist and kind of a perfectionist, so it won't feel good even if it has good memories.

I think it does, but w/e I don't even have to think about that stuff because it won't happen. And if it does, you have my answer ;)

Cancel your membership. I think they get some code when they subscribe that can be used for recovery (further proof it is your acc, etc). Then do the usual routine of virus scan. Make a password using numbers, letters and symbols if you have a godly memory. Example: for4eh!l0[lz] (not a real password :P, but you get the point). Makes it harder to brute force your ass.

 

@Zaaps

 

That is not true, most brute force hack programms use random words. You can better just make up words or write the words so that they are not correct (like lolspeak or backwards).

Mod edit: removed some spam posts! :)

 

IKR. First I read it... Then read it again... And again... Then thought, "This guy can't really be serious!"

 

What, are they just waiting to ban him? Collecting a giant list of names (Which is like 3 for Jagex), and then ban them all at once? Lolol, some people on TIF just trip me out.

Edited August 29, 201114 yr by Kimberly

theres no "active agreements." when I try to cancel the membership, must have used a card. Can anyone confirm that?