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Ragnarok Online Hacked Again

Posted by simoniker on from the not-good-for-business dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to a Stratics article, Ragnarok Online, a primarily Asian MMORPG, has been hacked yet again. As many people will remember , Ragnarok was hacked in late June, and a file with every user's passwords/usernames was distributed." Another anonymous reader claims: "Someone logged on as a GM, loaded arbitrary items and distributed them, used the in-game announcement system to announce their accomplishment, and was able to delete all of the official GM accounts." As yet, there's no official statement from the Ragnarok developers on this latest alleged issue.

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  1. GRAVITY IS CLOSING UP SHOP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    One of my friends is one of the Sub GM - The Korean management of Gravity has decided they want nothing more to do with the Americans who consistently cause more trouble than they are worth. There has been no announcement because the GM staff has been dismissed except for a skeleton crew. Word is office supplies and such are being boxed up for return to Korea, and iRO will shut down at the end of the week. They simply don't have enough customers left to support operations in the face of continuous attacks.

  2. Korea and KSSNs by Schezar · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Before Rag Online came to the US, a bunch of us tried to sign up for the Korean version...

    We couldn't. In Korea, almost every online game requires you to provide a valid KSSN (Korean Social Security Number). Furthermore, these numbers aren't like US SSNs. The number itself reveals such information as birth year and gender (and they tend to enforce gender in the games as well). You can't just make one up, since it either wouldn't have the proper checksum, wouldn't exist in the database, or wouldn't match the age or gender you need. Plus, the Korean government investigates "suspicious use of a KSSN." If a Korean citizen's KSSN is regularly connecting to a game server from the United States, something is likely amiss.

    Granted, there are sites that will "sell" you KSSNs, but they often get shut down by the Korean government. We gave up trying and just waited for the American release. (Not that it was worth waiting for -_- Stupid macro-based boring laggy POS MMORPG...)

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    1. Re:Korea and KSSNs by analog_line · · Score: 2, Interesting

      OK, how about the Japanese version? Is there a simmilar restriction on that? I know there's a Japanese release of Ragnarok.

  3. Not too shocking... by heyyojay · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I am not supprised that it was hacked. Why would you put all of the passwords in the same spot. Some other smart online games have passwords stored in several servers, not in just one file. I am afriad i cant feel bad for them. I feel that it is thire own fault...