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Old 12-16-2008, 08:53 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by Alan T View Post
While OOTP is a gaming community, I haven't seen any of these trojans ever specifically target ootp however. (it is obviously possible however).

When these reports say that the hackers are targeting gaming sites, what they mean are World of Warcraft of various other multiplayer online games like that. What the hackers are evidently doing is through keyloggers that are loaded on a user's computer thanks to this exploit, they then just sit and watch for a long list of multiplayer online games. Once the user logs in to the game it records their login information and sends it off to a "home site".

The hackers then are going and stealing people's accounts in these games and selling them online on various sites to new people for profit. I don't play in multiplayer online games like Word of Warcraft, but it is reportedly very widespread in them.
Would the hacker be able to, via an ****** on an ootp league site, be able to steal passwords used to login to a forum on the same site?

I'm also thinking that although we are not the same type of gaming community as, say, WoW, but the hacker does not know that, and thus, is attacking us anyway in case we are.
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