AIM hacked.

[NNNNOOOOONAN]

sorry, i was under the impression that you were one of the guys hacked.

who all lost money in this?

[Bad Beat Maker]

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Okay guys, I know I'm not a high stakes player, but here goes.

Did you ever notice that AIM has security questions. I'm willing to bet everyone that has gotten hacked gave theirs up somehow.

Date of Birth? Birthplace? Do these sound familiar. Stop being so stupid and talking about [censored] that a random ass mother [censored] has no need of knowing. Jeez.

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you are a moron and need to shut up.
yes obv aim has secruity questions you still need a password to get into someones email account first to even check that and get the answer.

this really looks like aols fault somehow like nnnoonan
said.

not trying to be douchebag bad beat maker this thread just pisses me off.

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Bro those security questions that the person asks can easily apply to e-mail, then from getting in the e-mail they get the AIM. I think you took it as get security questions then AIM then email, nah reverse.

[Stinger88]

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sorry, i was under the impression that you were one of the guys hacked.

who all lost money in this?

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he hacked my aim and scammed ppl from my buddy list

[DerekJCEX]

wow wrong thread

[Dan Druff]

Regarding recent hackings of AOL/AIM:

1) AOL and AIM are NOT the same. SteveDaPimp is the one responsible for the recent AOL hackings. He has been doing so from the inside -- he has some sort of administrator access that allows him to freely see the password of any AOL account he chooses. This isn't a guess. It's a fact, and he demonstrated his ability to do this to one of my friends (who was one of his victims). Once he has those AOL passwords, he simply requests the passwords for all poker accounts registered to that e-mail address. He also scans the incoming/saved e-mail for all personal information, as well as info on other pros. For example, if Howard Lederer sent John Juanda an e-mail last month saying, "You were hilarious at Red Lobster last Saturday!", Steve could now contact Howard pretending to be John, making reference to Red Lobster last month in order to "prove" he really is John Juanda.

2) AIM, while owned and operated by AOL, is a different system and apparently not vulnerable the same way AOL is. I do not know of any hackings of AIM itself at this time, though it wouldn't surprise me if that system was also compromised at one point. In most cases, AIM passwords are hacked by use of a keylogger.

3) SteveDaPimp's typical MO is to impersonate known pros in order to get money "loaned" to him. For example, he once created an AIM account named "ToddWitteles" to impersonate me. He asked various people to "trade" money between two poker sites, while obviously not planning to send his part. He assumed that I would be blamed for it, which I was at first until it was cleared up and I fortunately had the poker site (Party) return the money to the victim. He has done this to countless other pros, including Paul Wasicka, Twin-Caracas, and many others. In addition to creating phony pro AIM accounts (I stupidly never registered ToddWitteles on AIM, so he easily took it for himself), he also has hacked a number of them through keyloggers. Once he gains control of them, he does the same thing (requests to borrow money under the AIM accounts of trusted pros.) He also did the same with many of the AOL accounts he recently hacked, as AOL and AIM accounts communicate over the same network.

4) Here is how you can prevent SteveDaPimp and others like him from victimizing you in the same fashion:

- Do not have ANY poker sites registered to an AOL address.

- Register every poker site to a different e-mail address. Also, make sure each e-mail address (perhaps one you create on Yahoo or Hotmail) does not have a connection to you. Don't use them to communicate with other poker players, and don't make them easy to guess. For example, create one like "desklamp344@yahoo.com" -- something random that nobody would associate with you. This way, even if Steve does find a way to compromise Yahoo, he won't know where to look for your account.

- Do not EVER accept attachments or direct connect requests on AIM without knowing FOR SURE that you are talking to a trusted party. The only way you can do this for sure is to call the person and ask if it's really them talking to you right now. I wouldn't trust an AIM attachment from my own mother unless I first called and asked if it was really her I was talking to.

[Phresh]

Solid post, Dan.

[sobefuddled]

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SteveDaPimp's typical MO is to impersonate known pros in order to get money "loaned" to him. For example, he once created an AIM account named "ToddWitteles" to impersonate me. He asked various people to "trade" money between two poker sites, while obviously not planning to send his part.

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Interesting. Your post reads as if this has been going on for some time. Is hat true? If this has been going on for some time now how is it that the authorities have not stopped it? If it's been going on how is it that other players were not aware of the potential for this type of scamming? Why were the authorities not involved earlier?

[hed zup]

samh133 playing 25 50 on ftp now, didnt you say he hacked your ftp account?

not sure if its you or him playing...

[Stinger88]

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samh133 playing 25 50 on ftp now, didnt you say he hacked your ftp account?

not sure if its you or him playing...

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pretty sure his FTP and Stars accounts are good but I'll ask him to make sure

[sobefuddled]

Interesting-It sounds like a new exploitation of a very old, known aol security problems.
http://www.aolwatch.org/namehole.htm

http://fewl.net/2006/12/13/the-battl...y-aol-account/