Full Tilt Account hacked for $40,000 - Page 7

brendanb438 · #61 03-28-2007, 02:05 AM

I have also used a laptop to log into FT when my desktop has been logged in and can wait 30 seconds and then I am on fine from the new connection. So leaving it on isn't an option. This happens to be the case with most poker sites. I have switched to laptop after playing on the desktop multiple times from many sites.

I recommend using different PWs with each site and if you have to keep a copy of them on a flash drive or on a piece of paper. OBV don't keep a copy on your computer.

Also change your PWs every 2 months or so to be safe. I do this and my wife thinks I am crazy.

-Brendan

cardcounter0 · #62 03-28-2007, 02:09 AM

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I have also used a laptop to log into FT when my desktop has been logged in and can wait 30 seconds and then I am on fine from the new connection. So leaving it on isn't an option. This happens to be the case with most poker sites. I have switched to laptop after playing on the desktop multiple times from many sites.

I recommend using different PWs with each site and if you have to keep a copy of them on a flash drive or on a piece of paper. OBV don't keep a copy on your computer.

Also change your PWs every 2 months or so to be safe. I do this and my wife thinks I am crazy.

-Brendan

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This sounds like the perfect way to defeat even the most sophisticated key-logging software. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

Infinitiv86 · #63 03-28-2007, 02:17 AM

Another tip is doing something like this.
You use the password lol donkaments.
Your name is John Doe.
Your lucky hand is J9.
First make lol donkaments one word loldonkaments.
Then change some letters to numbers: 1o1donkam3nts for example.
Then add your initials JDl101donkam3nts
Then add your lucly hand JD101donkam3ntsJ9
Then for fulltiltpoker use ftp_JD101donkam3ntsJ9
Then for pokerstars use ps_JD101donkam3ntsJ9
Then for partypoker use pp_JD101donkam3ntsJ9
etc.
It wont help to protect you from keyloggers but It will make you have a safer password and this is what we are using at work, but not exactly the same ofc [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

Karak567 · #64 03-28-2007, 02:18 AM

Very mature reply.

cardcounter0 · #65 03-28-2007, 02:22 AM

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brendanb438 · #66 03-28-2007, 02:34 AM

cardcounter is a worthless troll. As his posts show. If you have a key-logging trojan on your computer then you can change your password a million times and it won't do you any good. cardcounter sorry I didn't point that out, I forgot how dumb some users on here can be (YOU).

-Brendan

ClubChamp04 · #67 03-28-2007, 02:51 AM

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Am I missing something here or does it really seem like FTP accounts are always the ones that get hacked.

I have seen only one UB account hack post.

I have only seen two PS hack posts, and they are the biggest site by far.

90% of the time it's a FTP account thats been hacked.

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Who is to say they don't search the player pool looking for people to screw. Maybe they try to seek out lambs who will lay down without a fight and who will just write it off as "bad luck". FTP is a joke, I would never trust that much money with those crooks.

ekdikeo · #68 03-28-2007, 02:57 AM

You need to seriously get in touch with your ISP, and find out who was in your email account, at least the IPs where that came from. That's gonna be a long freakin trace, but seriously... wtf?

About the only thing I can think of is someone got you with a keylogger, or a phishing site... a good reason to use your ISPs incoming mail for important stuff, as opposed to web emails

Emperor · #69 03-28-2007, 03:37 AM

I wouldn't accept this answer from Full Tilt either. We leave our money in thier care, and they let someone login to our accounts from other PC's and IPs... In my opinion it is a bug in thier software that this is allowed... Hijak all of FTPDoug's threads until he responds.

PokrLikeItsProse · #70 03-28-2007, 04:40 AM

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I watched "you" hit and run against sbrugby and thought you were just some low-stakes player taking a shot.

The thing that gets me is that yes, you may have lost some funds to legitimate players, but surely some of the funds went into a fund that the hacker had access to in some way. What would be the point of this whole endeavor otherwise? Surely there has to be some way to figure out who the accomplice was that had the chips dumped to them.

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In the Raymer thread, he said that some of these people are "joy riders" who get thrills off of playing high and aren't dumping money. And if I were the unethical sort of person who would do this sort of thing, I might consider an outright chip dump too traceable, but would find educational value in playing above my bankroll and experimenting.