What's the point of playing if characters aren't safe?

[anterozz]

My account was just hacked and all my characters(60, 41 and other alts) were deleted and replaced with a new character named "itsaprankbro". I was playing almost nonstop a week ago and took a small break but I was still logging in everyday just to check guild chat. Logged in just an hour ago and find out all my chars are gone.

Talked to a GM and he said they will not recover my characters because apparently it's my fault because "users are fully responsible for their security" when I only use this computer for gaming, all the addons I ever used were gotten from this site. All my other important accounts like banking, paypal, youtube, etc remain untouched so It's not like it was some keylogger I got from a porn site.

So why should I play again when I know my characters aren't truly safe and are impossible from recovery?.

[Eligius]

The hacker got your password from somewhere, it's your fault you were hacked.

Possibilities:
1- One of your friend knows your password and stole your stuff/ leaked it
2- Someone found your email and email password and was able to reset password
3- you installed a modified game client, that has a keylogger included it happened to several people recently. Only download from the OP of the "client" thread in the getting started section
4- regular addons (where you just copy paste in interface folders) can't know your password, but some of them can automatically send gold away when you open a mailbox
5- you downloaded some keylogger from somewhere

When you have been hacked:
1- Don't tell the GMs, otherwise they will ban the account
2- Reformat computer, because if the leak was a keylogger, it is still here somewhere
3- from another computer or from the reformated computer, change email password and game password
4- Refrain from downloading shady stuff and don't tell your password to anyone

[ravensareblack]

Then don't? Simple.

"Users are fully responsible for their security."

[Sharax]

I dunno. This is my big concern that someone will somehow crack into my accounts and toast my toons. It would be nice if toons were restored (though gear/gold should be lost)

[Dish]

Your account doesn't just get "hacked". It is always your own fault, whether you want to admit it or not.

[anterozz]

The hacker got your password from somewhere, it's your fault you were hacked.

Possibilities:
1- One of your friend knows your password and stole your stuff/ leaked it
2- Someone found your email and email password and was able to reset password
3- you installed a modified game client, that has a keylogger included it happened to several people recently. Only download from the OP of the "client" thread in the getting started section
4- regular addons (where you just copy paste in interface folders) can't know your password, but some of them can automatically send gold away when you open a mailbox
5- you downloaded some keylogger from somewhere

When you have been hacked:
1- Don't tell the GMs, otherwise they will ban the account
2- Reformat computer, because if the leak was a keylogger, it is still here somewhere
3- from another computer or from the reformated computer, change email password and game password
4- Refrain from downloading shady stuff and don't tell your password to anyone

1-Yeah sure the only person I play with and level together with must have done it.... someone I know for 8 years...
2-They didn't reset the password, they logged in with the same password I was using. Nobody could have found it because I use this password only on nostalrius.
3-Downloaded the game through this site.
4-Downloaded all the addons through this site.
5-Yeah sure, some hacker was able to install a keylogger on youtube or any other site just to steal Nostalrius accounts and not bank accountss, paypal, etc...

I wouldn't be surprised if it's an actual security breach on Nostalrius and more people start getting hacked in the coming day, yup , the users' fault...

[Shirley]

Im stilll amazed how people gets
"hacked" in 2015 personally ive lost 1 account total in maybe 15 years, because i shared it. You simply dont get "hacke" if you dont fuck up something

[ravensareblack]

1-Yeah sure the only person I play with and level together with must have done it.... someone I know for 8 years...

I wouldn't be surprised if it's an actual security breach on Nostalrius and more people start getting hacked in the coming day, yup , the users' fault...

"itsaprankbro"

What do you think?

[Thatoneguy]

I wouldn't be surprised if it's an actual security breach on Nostalrius and more people start getting hacked in the coming day, yup , the users' fault...

From the way you argue with people I'm not surprised you got hacked.

[ravensareblack]

I wouldn't be surprised if it's an actual security breach on Nostalrius and more people start getting hacked in the coming day, yup , the users' fault...

From the way you argue with people I'm not surprised you got hacked.

He's still in the "There is no way it's my fault! I'm not an idiot! Therefore it must be a failure of the admin." stage. Hence the lashing out.