BF2S Forums think i was hacked

well your lucky then if you only got a glitch..

majorassult wrote:

Well not really cuz I still can't play on the account.  It's like a permanent glitch but w/e i just started a new account.

DeepSkysUrGe wrote:

This isn't going to be any consolation but from my experience way back when my first account was subjected to the gamespy/bf2login account corruption bug EA couldn't have cared less about restoring my account.

HACKERZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, oh no, im never playing again

FesterTheMolester wrote:

pwnt

if thats all your going to say, why bother posting?

I read a book about codebreaking. Apparently the US could possibly build a giant super computer capable of breaking the longest passwords or codes in a matter of minutes. So a US intelligence agency could of hacked your account to see if you were naughty or nice. But time for seriousness. I feel really bad for you because you are a colonel. To think that you lost your account to some nerd who spent a good amount of his time checking you out, I would be enraged. Hope that for once that the crappy EA can actually do something good for someone.
Oh yeah, +1 for your troubles.

Sgt.Gene wrote:

Stun_Gun wrote:

i have the ip it sent from where the email was changed from, can EA do anything with that?
sorry dont know much about all that

I can trace the IP and possibly get the persons address.

If he used a proxy server to change it (which is a strong possibility) then the IP is no good because it's not his. If he's smart enough to be cracking these accounts, I'm sure he's smart enough to use a proxy to change the account information

And if it was his real isp, they arent going to do anything about a stolen account. It happens all over the net daily, but isn't looked at because there are more serious crimes like credit card fraud, identity theft, or whatever.. choose one. A case where someone got his game account taken isn't going to get much attention, because there's really no serious damage being done.

And then you have to go through the case of proving it was yours. Gamespy wont reset passwords if there wasnt a credit card on file with your gamespy account, because there is really no other way to TRULY prove the account was yours. Screenshots, movies, etc. (although are good proof to the common person) wont work because it's not enough proof in their eyes. Those can be easily duped.

I dont mean to be so blunt about it, but it's really a waste of time to try and fight for it knowing Gamespy's polices. In the future choose strong passwords (symbols, numbers, upper case, etc..), dont download hacks (not saying you did, its just a tip), dont put your password into anything other than trusted gamespy services/clients.

don't register with game spy thats your biggest mistake I never did its so easier to hack into someones account and system while its on the web rather then on the bf2 screen. Your first mistake was using or registering with Game-spy learn from your mistakes.

Thx wolfy I'll woof you one karma point

Last edited by blademaster (2006-10-02 22:14:06)

Stun_Gun wrote:

soadlink wrote:

And then you have to go through the case of proving it was yours. Gamespy wont reset passwords if there wasnt a credit card on file with your gamespy account, because there is really no other way to TRULY prove the account was yours. Screenshots, movies, etc. (although are good proof to the common person) wont work because it's not enough proof in their eyes. Those can be easily duped.

dont they have on record what the email and password was before the change?
from my understanding is that they would and that i would pretty much be asking for them to reset to the first email and pass which has been the same since the game came out and then i will be able to change it to whatever i like.

Let's say Blazin.UK has an email of blazinuk@hotmail.com. Someone hacks that email so he immediately changes all his other information before the hacker can get his other stuff (gamespy account, paypal, whatever). He changes his email to: blazinuk@yahoo.com with a new password in the gamespy accounts page, and everything is all good.

Now the person who hacked his old email goes to gamespy and says:  "hey my email and password were changed! can you change it back to blazinuk@hotmail.com!"

^ lets say they listen to the hacker and reset his email to the @hotmail.com, then the hacker does a password reset which is sent to the hotmail email, and he successfully resets blazin.uk's password. Now the hacker has blazin.uk's gamespy account.

That is why they dont use an email as proof. If there was a credit card verified on file, you could call/email gamespy and verify the full number. According to them, that is enough proof to reset. However, if there was no credit card on file.... I hate to say you're pretty much out of luck.

CaptainKris wrote:

I read a book about codebreaking. Apparently the US could possibly build a giant super computer capable of breaking the longest passwords or codes in a matter of minutes. So a US intelligence agency could of hacked your account to see if you were naughty or nice. But time for seriousness. I feel really bad for you because you are a colonel. To think that you lost your account to some nerd who spent a good amount of his time checking you out, I would be enraged. Hope that for once that the crappy EA can actually do something good for someone.
Oh yeah, +1 for your troubles.

Sorry a little off topic but kris where did you go?  I havnt seen you post here in a while....

Last edited by majorassult (2006-10-03 12:35:57)

Hrm just curious, why do you use gamespy to play bf2?

CaptainKris wrote:

I read a book about codebreaking. Apparently the US could possibly build a giant super computer capable of breaking the longest passwords or codes in a matter of minutes. So a US intelligence agency could of hacked your account to see if you were naughty or nice. But time for seriousness. I feel really bad for you because you are a colonel. To think that you lost your account to some nerd who spent a good amount of his time checking you out, I would be enraged. Hope that for once that the crappy EA can actually do something good for someone.
Oh yeah, +1 for your troubles.

Digital Fortress??

Oh I thought he was logging in threw gamespy to play. I knew gamespy keeps track of BF2 accounts.