My account was flagged for this, too. If they did take it over, they left no evidence of it that I can find. No keyloggers turned up in a scan, and absolutely nobody else has my passwords, not even anyone in my family. I changed my passwords for my master account and City of Heroes account as a precaution, but I really wonder if anything actually happened.
"I wish my life was a non-stop Hollywood movie show,
A fantasy world of celluloid villains and heroes."
That's just plain scary! Glad things got straightened out.
"Most people that have no idea what they are doing have no idea that they don't know what they are doing." - John Cleese
@Ukase
Yikes!
Y'know, I was on Tattered Man for a bit over the weekend and Belle registered as online according to my server friends list. I was just on for 5 minutes trading out some salvage to other characters, so I didn't say 'Hi'. But now I sorta wish I had.
Had "Belle" tried to sell me anything, I would have known instantly that it wasn't you. I'm sorry you got hacked, but let me say that your rep in these parts remains as strong as it ever was. Hope you didn't lose any virtual goodies that you might have been planning to give out to new players!
CP
Statesmonkey Sez: Lighten up! It's a game, for Lincoln's sake!
Also: Six years of casual play begins to look an awful lot like one year of hardcore play.
Yikes! I'm glad everything worked out in the end! It's never a good feeling when this happens.
-=|Infinity|=-
Warrior Streak - DM/regen scrapper
Code Monk - Ill/FF controller
Cyan Shift - Grav/Kin Controller
Hi everyone! I have some unfortunate news. A couple of days ago, the City Administrators had to shut down my account because they say it was hacked, and they had to sort everything out. I don't know what all happened, but if you've seen "me" between late Friday night and and Tuesday afternoon, that wasn't me, it was an evil impostor!
I mention it because they said it was one of those RMT people. Those of you who know me know that I'd never get mixed up in anything like that. In fact, since all of the Taxi's services have always been free and I give away most of my stuff in contests and to new heroes, I really wouldn't have any need for that stuff at all. I've never cared that much about getting stuff before, and I'm sure not going to go to those lengths to get it now!
Anyway, if anyone ran across "me," I'm really sorry if it caused any trouble or if "I" did anything that was hurtful or that bothered anyone. The City Administrators have been really nice and helpful, and although I didn't get to help out my heroes for a couple of days, I really appreciate them helping to protect my reputation when they saw something wrong! Nothing seems to be missing, and if it was, it looks like the City Administrators put it all back, so that is a relief. I really appreciate Avatea, Mr. Ocho, Mr. Roland, and Tony (who worked with everyone!) to get everything back to normal, and I've changed all of my passwords so that it hopefully won't happen again!
I think it happened to some other people too, so if you can't get to the city or you have a friend who suddenly disappeared with no explanation, you might want to let them know. Create a ticket at the support site and the City Administrators can help to get everything working again!
Thanks, and I'll see you around the city!
Yay, Infinity Taxis!!!
Try my City without Taxis story (1679) if you get a chance and let me know what you think!