Ragnarok Online Hacked, User Data Leaked

Posted by simoniker on Tuesday June 24, 2003 @12:43AM from the more-mmorpg-hacking-pain dept.

Thanks to GameSpot for their article indicating a major hacking incident on the PC MMORPG Ragnarok Online. According to the piece, developers Gravity initially "..reacted by rolling back the game's data a day, as a number of users had created items with game-master privileges", but then the problem worsened and revealed an apparent server-side hack, as opposed to the client-side hacking of Shadowbane, as "...a full list of user IDs and passwords was leaked to the general public... allowing anybody to gain access to any user account." There's also a very informative post on the GameFAQs messageboards detailing the spread of the 'user.txt' file around messageboards and P2P networks. The official Ragnarok site currently only has a form for players to reconfirm their identities via email, and has offered no official statement.

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Maybe for the better by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-24 00:51 · Score: 0, Troll

I know, I know. Hacking anything is bad.
Well, but from what I have seen of the online mm* communities, there is a very big incentive ($$) to create and maintain characters, maybe now they will be forced to start living in the 'real world', where noone is willing to blow upwards of $500 for a collection of bits that may or may not exist alltogether.
It just all seems like a big copout to me.

What will those geeks do now? Go out and play frizbee? Damn, that be too much.