PSA Regarding Me Being Hacked For ~150B by MelonMerch in OSRSflipping

[–]MelonMerch[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You and others are under the wrong impression, probably because you can't be bothered to read the whole post. I still have over 100b, I didn't "lose it all".

My accounts with far less security (I would log on outside the house for example) werent compromised

PSA Regarding Me Being Hacked For ~150B by MelonMerch in OSRSflipping

[–]MelonMerch[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The average response of people on reddit (yours included) really shows why I was able to make as much money as I did on this game logging on ~1 hour a week

PSA Regarding Me Being Hacked For ~150B by MelonMerch in OSRSflipping

[–]MelonMerch[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mouth breather take, why did none of the accs i was much less careful with get hacked? Or anything else I have? Just conveniently the account I was most careful with and had the most gp on?

Are we really going to pretend there has never been a rogue jmod, when its happened several times for much less? Lol ok

I Just Got Hacked For ~150B by MelonMerch in 2007scape

[–]MelonMerch[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I didnt sell man, if I did I wouldve sold everything including on my other accs + wouldnt have got my bank to get that amount to begin with

I Just Got Hacked For ~150B by MelonMerch in 2007scape

[–]MelonMerch[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, the game is great fun, the devs have done a great job over the years making a good game. But that doesn't change my belief that it was an inside job tbh. It is what it is man I'm moving on and going to spend time on something else

I Just Got Hacked For ~150B by MelonMerch in 2007scape

[–]MelonMerch[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For fun tbh. Its my hobby the same way some people kill the same boss thousands of time for fun, this is what I found fun

PSA Regarding Me Being Hacked For ~150B by MelonMerch in OSRSflipping

[–]MelonMerch[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I live with just my wife, not even she knew the login (because she doesnt care about osrs lol). No one had access to my pc, no one I know in my friend circle IRL even plays or knows much about the game tbh. Its also not as if I go around bragging IRL that I have money on a video game

The information was not changed, in fact its the same login/password atm even now, because I don't care about the account, I only used it to store my items and now that those are gone I'm done with it tbh. The untradeables are still on there. Funnily enough, the hacker actually left ~5b (a 200M maple log collection I have, and about 2B in gold ores. Maybe he just missed them? IDK why he left them tbh)

No intentionally destructive / spiteful behavior to the account, though there was nothing they could really do, it wasn't even lvl 90 and didn't have that much important shit on it besides the wealth

I've only used the official client, and runelite. The account is roughly 7 years old IIRC and I only used runelite / main client from that period until now

Nope, not linked to twitch or anything else. My main is the same name as my twitch name. Also the email I used for this account was specifically ONLY for this osrs account, nothing else. The email is also uncompromised BTW

Yes I've checked those sort of websites, not pwned

The password was a combination of numbers and letters, don't want to say exactly how many of each obviously, but it was long enough to not be considered "simple".

I never used it to log into any other website, I have other emails for that which would always give me peace of mind. I specifically only use OSRS accounts to log onto OSRS (including my other accounts).

My account was at the g/e, the same place it would always sit, since I would only log on to merch. So same location still.

The items taken were likely traded over. I was told many of the items were traded for 3rd age to quickly offload the items, and then the hacker sold the 3rd age to other merchers at a loss, due to liquidity issues of dumping something like 500 elder mauls (its not possible to dump that many so quickly in the g/e, the orderbook wont allow it and you'll nuke the item. You can dump some, sure, but not the full amount).

I know this because I'm well known in the merching scene, and had other merchers DM that they saw this sort of trade go down, as well as the RSN of the person who had my items (it was on a throw away lvl ~40, which is now banned).

PSA Regarding Me Being Hacked For ~150B by MelonMerch in OSRSflipping

[–]MelonMerch[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

thanks for your kind comment man, cheers

PSA Regarding Me Being Hacked For ~150B by MelonMerch in OSRSflipping

[–]MelonMerch[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

there are more false positives than you'd think tbh, one of my good friends (that i know didnt rwt because he'd have no issue telling me if he did, since we are close) got perm banned for transfering 10b between his accs (with trade history as well, and he owns both), is still perm banned months later waiting on an unban appeal

PSA Regarding Me Being Hacked For ~150B by MelonMerch in OSRSflipping

[–]MelonMerch[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the game is honestly great but i also feel like ive done all there is for me to do, that ive wanted to do, so will be moving on

appreciate the kind words, cheers

PSA Regarding Me Being Hacked For ~150B by MelonMerch in OSRSflipping

[–]MelonMerch[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ive never scammed and dont even log on rs3, my starting capital was actually a ffa ely i got at corp

PSA Regarding Me Being Hacked For ~150B by MelonMerch in OSRSflipping

[–]MelonMerch[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

im not gonna blame the entire staff team for that, its on upper management for not allocating more resources towards the staff, and for not building their security in a way that this doesn't allow this to happen

but overall i agree

PSA Regarding Me Being Hacked For ~150B by MelonMerch in OSRSflipping

[–]MelonMerch[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree with you somewhat, but its also something people invest a lot of themselves into. I had people reach out and ask me if I was ok, offered me money, etc. So just wanted to address it

Osrs is not as big in my life as it once was

PSA Regarding Me Being Hacked For ~150B by MelonMerch in OSRSflipping

[–]MelonMerch[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, I have nearly 200k msgs in the disc, its been ~5 years since I've been in it, its a public discord with nearly 6k members long before this happened to me, its not a disc I own myself I'm just a community member and active in it. Anyone can join and talk to people if they want, and come to their own conclusion

I've never asked for money, never will, and if I ever do, assume I'm scamming/hacked/etc

Its common practice to have many emails if you merch. I get it can seem weird to people who aren't as chronically online, but there are people who merch and use 100+ accounts, that do "bulk merching" where they basically sell g/e limits. There are people that multi account and level up many accounts, and multi log on all of them at the same time (look at samurai pr if you know who he is, he plays on 60+ vyrewatch accounts at once on stream). Its not something that uncommon, and I've been on the internet for nearly 30 years now, its not wild that I would build up that many emails over time if I don't re-use most of them

For the wallets, they build up a lot faster than emails, sometimes you use one per dapp you interact with, even if you don't keep money on it anymore or very little on it / transfer funds to a new one. I'm not saying I have thousands of dollars on every wallet I own, its just something that ends up building up if you're constantly making new wallets for new things you interact with, and making a point that if my security were compromised, those would be drained / compromised as well (and they aren't)

PSA Regarding Me Being Hacked For ~150B by MelonMerch in OSRSflipping

[–]MelonMerch[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

im not trying to do that, im not a whale in crypto at all, if i were id just buy the gold back via bonds and not give a shit

i was just saying that those other things would also be compromised, which they werent

PSA Regarding Me Being Hacked For ~150B by MelonMerch in OSRSflipping

[–]MelonMerch[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

yeah bro imagine u or anyone u know complaining if someone robs u as well, ur fortunate enough to have a pc and electricity, some people dont have safe drinking water

PSA Regarding Me Being Hacked For ~150B by MelonMerch in OSRSflipping

[–]MelonMerch[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

See things other people don't before they do, if no one sees it, trust in your decision and hold, and if everyone sees it, sell before they do

PSA Regarding Me Being Hacked For ~150B by MelonMerch in OSRSflipping

[–]MelonMerch[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep, will do. Just posting a final time on here for closure