People aren't just getting hacked, their UCs are being morphed :cold:

[Dragons]

You could say that

So I just went through that thread and
bruh

[keknorris]

really random passwords are easier for computers to crack then word and number strings tho... I mean I doubt it's relevant at all with limited attempts etc but still a fun fact

I think you are mixing a few things up because of a slight misinterpretation of the cartoon you posted after this.

Really random passwords (using letters, numbers, and special characters) are always safer than a string of only letters or numbers of the same length. It is just simple math.

Say you got a 10 char password. An alphabet only password would have 26^10 = 1.4^14 possibilities. If you include Capitals, it would be (26*2)^10 = 1.4^17 possibilities.
A 10 char password of only numbers would only be 10^10 = 1.0^11 possibilities.
Now, if you take all characters, you would get (26+26+10+20)^10 = 1.4 ^19 (I took 20 for special characters, not sure about the exact number

In the example of the words as a passphrase, what you actually do is, you change the "dictionary" to include more than just the 26 characters of the alphabet, and instead you include say 20,000 words. You actual password would in this case have 20,000^4 possible outcomes, or 1.6^17 possibilities.

You can see already, that if you use the same amount of random characters as the length of the total characters in the words, your number of possibilities would be way way higher than this already. (correct horse battery staple is 28 characters including spaces, in a random password this would mean around (26+26+10+20)^24 = 8.5^45 possibilities, which is much much much more than the previously mentioned 1.6^17 for the words.

I'm sorry if the above is a bit difficult to read, but I hope my point is clear.

A final very important note: humans are not capable of creating random passwords . Even if you think you do random picks for letters and numbers, humans tend to pick certain letters and numbers or combinations of them more often than others. Do yourself a favor and use a random generator and a password manager to avoid having to remember this.

[I_royalty_I]

I think it's funny how I posted the link to that thread and it went from like 2-3 people viewing it in the past 30days to over 60 people viewing it
That doesn't even seem like it was that long ago but it really was. Wow. How time flies and things change.

[Folsom]

A VWN tier 10 UC that comes from an unknown account and suddenly appears UFT will always be suspicious in the eyes of PCers Much more when they downtrade like that one did... Also, the Grarrl didn't get frozen in the account from where it was traded, she got reversed to another account (most likely the original account from where the grarrl was taken) so in the end, TNT indeed saw something in the history of the pet.

Oh I think I see ... Thanks for your answer still hope high end UC buyers can take extra care of their pet ... Even I have no chance to have them once they are sold out , but still I don't wana see high end UCs extinct ......

[fruitynutcase]

my inner gossip girl wants to know who you are referring to heh, tbf I rarely come to cK except when there's drama, but 1 of the users I really dislike got frozen and I came to see what's up.

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There's a debate about the horse battery staple password theory though. Google it!

Well. Someone who has been chainfrozen two times before, is very active at least on NCC and has been chased down with NCCrs at least once for making a traden00b trade high value (was 6 or 8, during Sweethear grams) to something value 1-2 :p Maybe that gives you hint enough

It's kinda funny when so many knows they are not that innocent they claim to be, lol!

Also, the morphed UCs have been turned back to original state. I was kinda wonder that because I searched one converted pet that was techoed earlier the summer and it was back to what it was before hacking.


I still can't believe people claim they've changed ALL their info regularry and still getting hacked. Someone is lying.

[DJ Music Man]

I don't think I have enough baby pbs sitting around for everybody that joined almost three years ago! haha

Aw, alright.

[Saturn]

I'm pretty sure that thread was the reason I joined clraik!
I miss when neo was active enough to have drama like that.

[Daffodil]

People are getting hacked (some had their emails compromised as well), their UCs are getting converted and/or morphed. The hacker is creating boards to get some attention when they do stuff.
Also the PC is crawling with trolls as well. Not sure if related but lol

I guess it's time to secure emails and avoid the boards like the plague

Yeah my email was compromised. They had hacked my RuneScape account via my email, which is insane but the thing is they didn't even change my password. So I am quite certain they used the neopets database to do it since I was stupidly using the same password.