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Just getting this all down, so that everyone knows what happened to me, because I'm really ticked off right now. stressed

Today, Dec. 22, at about 6:30pm PST, I tried to log into my main account -- windandwater -- but was told it was not a valid username. I logged into this account, one of my mules, and checked my shop Asher's Beastiary in the Mini Shops forum. I found out that someone had HACKED my windandwater account and changed the name to 'waterandwind'.

From my avatar, I can already tell that someone has stolen my Bunny Slippers, Portable Headphones, and Angelic Mini Wings, because my avatar had been wearing them before this, and now they're gone (and my avatar is barefoot). I can only assume someone targeted me BECAUSE I was wearing such valuable items.

I have no access to my previous account AT ALL.

I last logged-in to my main account about two days ago, to try and do the Christmas event. However, I kept being logged-out so I gave up on trying the event until a later date (today).

I have been on Gaia since July 2003. I am also a well-known collector, and have MC Letters and items from that date forward. I've already reported the hacking, but I really hope I get all my items back, since they're very special to me. The Bunny Slippers, especially, were a gift from a friend of mine, as were the Ports.

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I will be keeping track of any updates or new information on my situation here as well.


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Kwycksylver
Last night there was a pair of bunny slippers in the marketplace for sale for 55,000,000 gold. It was a one day sale because I remember there was about 13 hours left on the sale. This was about 11:30 last night central time. The seller's name was either a_smart_girl or very_smart_girl and the profile was hidden. Neither name shows up when you do a username search though.

It is a bit strange that there happened to be one pair of bunny slippers on sale on the same day you were hacked, especially since they rarely become available on marketplace. The listing isn't there now so I don't know if the sale expired or if someone shelled out the gold. I would imagine that the admins would be able to trace the seller, especially since neither name shows up on a username search now.

It's also too bad you can't look up marketplace listings by seller.


This is helpful because I had many very rare items in my hacked account. Seeing Bunny Slippers in the Marketplace seems very suspicious, especially on the same day that I reported the hacking. Now I can't help but wonder if my Ports will end up there, too, or if they already have.
So is there anything else I can do besides wait for my hacking report to be looked at?
i was hacked 1nce randomley then my friend looked up my hacked avi and i was naked anyways i heard the best thing to do is report that youve been hacked
Well some kind of way I lost 30k. But I retraced my steps and looked up everything i bought but there was no 30k. So I am asking if i can please get my gold back. I got hacked once on this account but only got 20k back when i had a 100k wort of items and gold.
Amelia244
i was hacked 1nce randomley then my friend looked up my hacked avi and i was naked anyways i heard the best thing to do is report that youve been hacked


Yeah, the first thing I did once I saw that I'd been hacked was filled out the report form. crying
Yukino Makoto-chan
Amelia244
i was hacked 1nce randomley then my friend looked up my hacked avi and i was naked anyways i heard the best thing to do is report that youve been hacked


Yeah, the first thing I did once I saw that I'd been hacked was filled out the report form. crying


im sorry that you got hacked and that you get your stuff back good luck
Yukino Makoto-chan
Amelia244
i was hacked 1nce randomley then my friend looked up my hacked avi and i was naked anyways i heard the best thing to do is report that youve been hacked


Yeah, the first thing I did once I saw that I'd been hacked was filled out the report form. crying


Where is the report form?
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Amelia244
i was hacked 1nce randomley then my friend looked up my hacked avi and i was naked anyways i heard the best thing to do is report that youve been hacked


Yeah, the first thing I did once I saw that I'd been hacked was filled out the report form. crying


Where is the report form?


It's at the bottom of the Forums page. Here.

http://www.gaiaonline.com/gaia/report.php?r=1
Amelia244
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Amelia244
i was hacked 1nce randomley then my friend looked up my hacked avi and i was naked anyways i heard the best thing to do is report that youve been hacked


Yeah, the first thing I did once I saw that I'd been hacked was filled out the report form. crying


im sorry that you got hacked and that you get your stuff back good luck


Thank you very much. This whole thing has upset me alot.

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Thanks, faolan-chan. I know that YOU know exactly how much I have, since you've seen my Inventory.

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Thanks, faolan-chan. I know that YOU know exactly how much I have, since you've seen my Inventory.
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I think I'm still reeling from the shock of it, to be honest. lol I don't know how you keep track of what's in there!

Swear to dog, I can't believe this has happened.

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So is there anything else I can do besides wait for my hacking report to be looked at?

Besides being patient about it, no, sadly. I do hope you get your stuff back.

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So is there anything else I can do besides wait for my hacking report to be looked at?

Besides being patient about it, no, sadly. I do hope you get your stuff back.
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*nods* Take heart, though -- one kid I talked to over the summer was telling me his turn-around, from filing to logging back in, was three weeks. ^_~

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Hopefully something will be done fairly soon and you'll get your account back before 6-12 months passes by.

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