reptiletim wrote:
KojiroSoma wrote:
if you had any faith in the Security Token you'd leave your Square Enix ID and Password, but you didnt. Henceforward, pointless thread.
On an unrelated note, Security Tokens have been hacked before or rather circumvented like childsplay.
I'm going to need a source on how it's "child's play" to hack a secure token login.
Specially designed "man in the middle attack."
A trojan designed to infiltrate the game is posted on game boards and downloaded by unsuspecting victims. Sometimes it's hidden in the banner ads so even innocent players get infected.
The trojan lets you fire up the game and input authentication, but then crashes the game before it sends the info off to log you in. Bam, they have your username and password and a working one time password (since it wasn't used yet.)
For this, they will not have permanent access to your account since once they're logged out they are toast, but the virus will have corrupted the game and it'll take you a while to get yourself back in. All they need is 20 minutes to strip your character blind of all gil and valuables.
Happened to a few people in FFXI before word got out that some websites were infected (FFXI Atlas was a big culprit for a while.)
I wouldn't say it's child's place since it's a fairly sophisticated, program-specific virus, but it proves that nothing in this world is 100%.
Edited, Sep 26th 2013 1:51pm by Catwho