Someone vandalized my GameTalk account.

[untz]

Hi John,
 
My GameTalk profile was vandalized on rome.ro...
 
I posted a Godfather entry on "General Gaming Discussion" (see: http://rome.ro/phpubb/viewtopic.php?t=5523 ), and after posting, I looked at my signature,
and discovered that someone had changed it to:
 
"i'am an asshole and i fuck my mother every day"
 
I am really disturbed about this... You might want to investigate and see who did this because
http://rome.ro is for people who are passionate about gaming, and obviously there's an "outsider / weirdo / malicious idiot"
lurking our waters.
 
Kindest regards,
 
Unnsse

[Josh1billion]

You should change your password if you haven't already.  And you still haven't fixed your signature...

[Rizimar]

And you still haven't fixed your signature...

That would be like painting over graffiti and then trying to prove that your property was defaced.

[youspeakmylanguage]

You might want to investigate and see who did this because
http://rome.ro is for people who are passionate about gaming, and obviously there's an "outsider / weirdo / malicious idiot"
lurking our waters.
 
Kindest regards,
 
Unnsse

I'd talk to your roommates first, and then I'd check your computer for spyware and malware. Otherwise, unless you have the GameTalk url and your password tattooed to your forehead, I can't see how someone hacked into your account.

When in college, a frat brother hacked into my Hotmail account after I checked my email on his computer. He sent out prank mail. It sucked, but I learned an important lesson.

[Josh1billion]

And you still haven't fixed your signature...

That would be like painting over graffiti and then trying to prove that your property was defaced.

Not really, since a signature can be faked to whatever you want it to be without any effort whatsoever.  Who's going to question that he's making the whole thing up if he removes the signature?

[Rizimar]

And you still haven't fixed your signature...

That would be like painting over graffiti and then trying to prove that your property was defaced.

Not really, since a signature can be faked to whatever you want it to be without any effort whatsoever.  Who's going to question that he's making the whole thing up if he removes the signature?

What's the point of even complaining, then? Just change it back.

[Josh1billion]

And you still haven't fixed your signature...

That would be like painting over graffiti and then trying to prove that your property was defaced.

Not really, since a signature can be faked to whatever you want it to be without any effort whatsoever.  Who's going to question that he's making the whole thing up if he removes the signature?

What's the point of even complaining, then? Just change it back.

Why are you asking me this?

[Rizimar]

That was a rhetorical question

[satori]

what's a rhetorical question?

... when was the war of 1812, how long was the 7 years war.... are we done here yet?

If someone was going to hack the account why wouldn't they hack John's account... change everyone's title... or how about hack the whole net... shut us all down, force us to wear underwear on the outside of our pants... hell... make Riz change his AV to a bleating sheep.

[untz]

Well, someone was really malicious and now I have changed both the password and signature... To the person who did this: please try again!

I can't believe why someone would pick me over anyone else.... BTW, I am out of college and don't have roommates.

Well, obviously the scum bag that did this isn't vandalizing any more people's accounts on http://rome.ro

Cheers fellas,

[untz]

Hey, that hacker just identified himself by impersonating me again on Rome.ro's GameTalk forums:

http://rome.ro/phpubb/viewtopic.php?t=5563

[youspeakmylanguage]

BTW, I am out of college and don't have roommates.

It sounds like you have some serious malware on your PC, then. Either that or your password was "123". If you suspect malware, then you're GameTalk account should be the least of your worries, especially if you've been shopping online.

[untz]

untz I will tell you why ur account was vandalized

"Powered by phpBB 2.0.13 © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group"

by changing some cookies anybody can gain acces to this account.as you can see I can post from your account.you can change your pass to whateva (even asd2EDASD#3dnfldf23eqwe9#) and still .. anybody can use your account.

the only solution to prevent this is .. well .. the board had to be updated.
update to the latest (2.0.19 or even .20) .. it`s a good ideea if you don`t want people to start deleting stuff from here .. it`s a very serious problem!

cheers mate

p.s. - as you can see I didnt change anything .. but I cant assure you that some other as?hole wont!have a nice day.