Possibly CGs again.

[Pardona]

My account names differ anyway - it's just that I use my regular email-account to retrieve my password if need be. I check that email-account pretty regularly, and the passwords from my neo- and email-account have nothing to do with each other, especially now that I keep changing it out of paranoia for CG's.

[ladyflame]

Thanks for replying. What exactly do you mean 'linked to neopets'? The adress is nowhere on my user-lookup, though it is my adress for password retrieval. I never create an adress purely for something, I just created one adress, and have all my people there in different groups. You think I was CG'ed on Neo and this person got my e-mail adress from there? Now you really got me worried...

EDIT: Mmm... My email adress still seems to be the same. Changed my password just to be sure.

If your MSN/hotmail account is the one used for password retrieval, you might want to change it. People have had their MSN cookies cg'ed as well, and there have been cases of people hacking e-mail accounts, sending a neopets password to the e-mail address, and then reading the password, thereby getting into the victim's neopets account. That's why they recommend not having your username the same as your e-mail account name. You could get a free yahoo e-mail account and use that for your neopets e-mail; then don't give it away to anyone. If no one knows the account exists, they can't try to get your e-mail password to steal your neopets password. Just make sure to check any free e-mail account regularly to keep it from being deleted and assigned to someone else.

Siniri - you explained it better than me. I know someone from here & Neo who lost his account & pet (retrieved the account eventually but lost the pet) because their hotmail account was hacked.

That is why i have an email account just for Neopets now. I think the hassle of checking the account once a month is worth it

[ggagahc]

I know this doesn't help at all but...

Does anyone know if the CG scare is over yet? I've been on a trade binge recently but ever since I read about this, I've been avoiding the Trading Post like the plague. o_o Just wanted to see if the scare is over yet.

[moreau360]

jus to add some things.my account was so called hacked back in feb this yr.i noticed something fishy while i was plying NQ2 when suddenly ppl start making offers for my items,i was like "when did i put my items up for trade?".so i went to check my inventory,guess wat all my bottled faeries are on the trading post(i have like 60 of them).i used quick stock and put them all back thinking that it might be a "glitch" of some sort.i was bloody wrong.my bottled faeries were put into TP again.i went on to change my password and activated the PIN(din bother using it when it first came out).after tat all was quiet.i wanted to be extra safe and went to change my password and PIN again.u wun believe this,when i tried changing my PIN,it says that i have already exhausted all my 5 tries.It seems that the hacker is still in my account but is unable to move my things and hes trying his luck with the PIN.Subsequently i logged off.i came on again at abt 12am and left my account logged on throughout till morning cos i was downloading some stuff.when i woke up the next morning,i found that my account had been frozen...i sent in my request form to TNT explaining wat happened and they replied me abt 2 weeks later and informed me that my account was hacked into and my account was given back to me.
The Damage:
1.My neggs were used up at the neggery for pts
2.codestones
3.paintbrushes(abt 20 plus)
4.petpets(abt 20 plus)
5.all the maps
6 8.5MILLION NEOPOINTS
fortunately my pet was intact....i was saving up for SoS.sigh...

[chaosakita]

Oh dear... Thankfully, I never really go to the trading post. Hopefully, my PIN number will take care of everything, but I'm changing my password just to be safe.

[eilu]

It's a small glitch, but it's still a glitch. ;o

Anyways, the Auctions page will switch between the message "There are currently no auctions." and having auctions.

Also, while bidding on items, the evil Cybunny occasionally pops up and says "Invalid Auction ID" while the auction is still open. (That message typically pops up after the auction ends and you refresh the bidding page.)

The auctions were one of the places hit by the CG right? Maybe TNT is cleaning up now...? Anyway, just a heads-up.

[charlixsparkles]

Oh I'm sorry to hear that moreau360 I'd be devastated if I love that much (not that I ever had 8.5mil nps anyway) Hope you can get your SoS!

[Officer 1BDI]

But I thought it was the TP that was being affected by potential CGers, not auctions.

[moreau360]

Oh I'm sorry to hear that moreau360 I'd be devastated if I love that much (not that I ever had 8.5mil nps anyway) Hope you can get your SoS!

wats gone is gone.i am actually aiming for Ghostkerbomb now.guess SoS will be next yr then.figured that i could do some hefty damage with ghostkerbomb + HP(with the opponent frozen of course)

[narcoleptic_wonder]

i rarely post here, but a friend of mine suggested i visit this thread since we believe i was recently "self frozen" by a cg. i have a pin number set for everything, so i'm hoping whoever did it, can't get into my stuff but it still makes me incredibly mad. it happened while i was playing a game of pyramids; i got prompted to go into the login page, logged in again and it said i had self froze

i'm a premium member and filled out their help form, but as i submitted it asked me to log in again and once i did it gave me a blank form again, so i was unsure if it actually went through. i tried the live help chat and ended up with luis f who was no help whatsoever. i'm more ticked off that essentially, i'm paying for a service that i cannot use at the moment.

it's been over a week since this happened and i've had no help from anyone on the neopets team. does anyone have a direct email address for someone who i could try for some help? someone else mentioned i should try the better business bureau, since it happened to them before [cg] and neopets wasn't helping, so the bbb was contacted and her account was reinstated in 5 days.

any help or advice anyone can give me would be much apreciated. i'm very quickly losing my patience over this.

[Cranberry]

You know, the guy who started that neoboard thread on the 11th wasn't saying he'd gotten cookie-grabbed that day, but a couple weeks earlier. I gave snarkie a link to that thread on the 12th, and she said that IF there really had been CGers on the TP (she hadn't heard anything about it, but it's not her area), it would have been fixed by then. I also haven't heard any reports of anyone else getting cookie grabbed, so I wouldn't worry about it. Go forth, price some items... just change your password quickly if by some chance you do run into some really weird code or a large blank image where the wishlist should be.

[hallucinating]

^ just clarifying that my friend up there, Narcoleptic_Wonder, has been self-frozen for roughly a week now. She's not heard back from TNT during that time and so I urged her to post here when nothing else seemed to be helping.

I don't know the exact date of the self-freezing while she was playing a game, but it could have been the 11th or before. Idk.

Edit: She got her account back.