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Message to the Hacker: Whoever is hacking me stop it right now I'm serious!

Someone is hacking me, at first I got a notice saying my password was changed, I try to login it won't let me so I reset my password, after that I get hacked again so I go to my msn change my password in that first then change my BYOND password. So far nothing bad is happening after I changed both passwords but they renamed my Pokemon game to Pokemon Darkpoop and profanity. If an admin see's this is my game please don't ban my hub because I never but profanity in my hubs for the games I make.

~Element Hero creator
You aren't being 'hacked'. Someone is guessing your password. Entirely different.

For starters, the correct term is 'cracked'.
They're not a hacker, just a cracker, and that's pushing it. They simply guessed your password, and you used it in multiple places, so they got access to those too.
Are you sure about that? I just got hacked again after I changed my password 3 different times.. and they aren't easy to guess.. this person must really hate me.. maybe jealousy. Because they're only messing with my pokemon game.
In response to Element Hero creator
If they changed the email address, or know the password to your old one, they can get access to the password.
In response to Popisfizzy
Yeah. That's why it's been over 6 times already that I changed my password for my email address and my BYOND password..NOOOOO another email!!!!!! getting hacked at the moment...brb.
WOW...I'm still getting hacked..this is my 8th time god damnit!!!
In response to Element Hero creator
Perhaps its a keylogger? In all cases I've gotten ridden on several keyloggers using a decent antivirus and antispyware.
In response to Miran94
no..I have the best anti spyware called spyware doctor..haven't got any viruses, keyloggers or anything.

is there a way to change the email I'm using for BYOND?
In response to Element Hero creator
Spyware doctor isn't good, I recommend Kaspersky Internet Security. But if you can't afford it AVG and Spybot should work nicely.
In response to Element Hero creator
You're not getting hacked. You are not. Get that through you're head. In order to hack you, someone would have to do the following:
  • Gain access to the BYOND database, presumably by getting a valid username and password.
  • Getting the table for the password.
  • Finding your associated key.
  • Reversing an MD5 hashing algorithm, which isn't reversible. This means they would have to have a table of millions of millions of million of values to find the one (which would be your password) which produces that particular hash. There can be multiple values that produce the same hash, due to a hash being able to have 2632 possible values (that's 3.4e38, 34 undecillion, or 34,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000). Of course, this is assuming BYOND uses MD5. There are other hashing algorithms, like SHA-1 (which produces longer output), but MD5 is one of the most common.

    In other words, there is nearly zero chance they're hacking you. If they were, they would have access at least 15,000 other passwords.
In response to Popisfizzy
As you already said, wouldn't that be called "cracking"?
To reiterate what you've already been told multiple times on this thread, you are not being "hacked". Either your new passwords have been trivial for someone to guess, or your keystrokes are being logged by a program that was put there (probably through something you downloaded) or someone is connected to your computer through a trojan. These latter methods are the closest anyone ever comes to "hacking", but that still isn't a good description.

Using Occam's Razor, I'd skip to the most obvious weak spot first: Make absolutely sure those new passwords aren't easy to guess. Also, never reuse a password that has been compromised or anything like it.

If you have problems like this in the future, here's where to start:

  • Download or activate a firewall that is capable of stopping individual programs from contacting the outside world. (ZoneAlarm is one example.)
  • Download some good free spyware detection tools, and update your antivirus software.
  • Physically disconnect your computer from the Internet. If you have a network cable, unplug it; if you're on dial-up, disconnect and unplug the phone jack.

    Once you're in the clear, the first thing to do is get your firewall running. Make sure it's set up so that no program automatically has access to the Internet, but instead it has to be told which programs can talk to the outside world. This setting won't be necessary 100% of the time but right now it will stop any keylogger from "phoning home".

    Then, install antispyware tools and root out whatever is grabbing your info. It may not be a keylogger--it could be a different trojan that's merely allowing someone remote access. The firewall would catch that too.

    Finally once you're secure, reconnect to the Internet and change your passwords again. This time, unless you've made them easy to guess, they won't be taken. Leave your firewall settings in this paranoid mode for a while, making exceptions as needed for BYOND and other programs you use.

    Lummox JR
In response to Element Hero creator
Element Hero creator wrote:
Yeah. That's why it's been over 6 times already that I changed my password for my email address and my BYOND password..NOOOOO another email!!!!!! getting hacked at the moment...brb.
Sounds like a troll...
Oh wait, there isn't a difference between a troll and half the BYOND community! *facepalm*
In response to Miran94
I got it figured out. I guess I was "cracked" through msn. Allowing the "cracker" to keep sending password resets to my msn. I got rid of the "cracker" situation by changing my hotmail.
In response to Flame Sage
Flame Sage wrote:
Oh wait, there isn't a difference between a troll and half the BYOND community! *facepalm*

There is a distinct difference: an average member of the BYOND community complains about things happening or somebody doing something and frowns when they get punished by moderators, a troll actively seeks to change things by attacking others over the internet.

In this case, the person that keeps gaining access to his account may have the motive of either revenge or because that person plain doesn't like Element Hero creator or his game(s).

I'd also like to add that it could also be that the intruder gained access to his e-mail account, which would allow him to send in a 'reset password' request.