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Hopebringer
If this is really a hacking group and not just one hacker, their intent is not just to deal damage to this one game. They're after credit card numbers and google play passwords - they're not going to just stop with damaging accounts on this game. The trend of most online gaming is heading towards apps - smartphone, tablet and apps you can play on your computer with bluestacks. The only reason I can see for a group of hackers to spend any time on Tynon is to get an idea of their coding schema so they can branch out into other games that may share the same vulnerabilities. Whether they get the access by fishing, hacking or befriending people in-game and then defiling that trust, it's aggressive, harmful, and action needs to be taken against them. Anyone who is a host or vice host of a guild should have this in mind and actively warn members of scams and check the forums often. There are some children playing the game as well, they won't be as adept in avoiding scams as adults. And anyone, under the right conditions, can make a mistake. That's what these hackers / thieves / cyber-thugs hope for. They send massive barrages of messages out and hope someone falls for it. For every several 1000 messages they send out electronically with the touch of a key, if only one person falls and they can secure a password or a credit card number, that's all the incentive they need to continue doing it.
Do any of us need to even consider how much damage this has caused recently? 100 banks were affected recently, 33 of them in the USA, the rest in many other nations with the hackers appearing to originate in Russia. That doesn't even take into account the hundreds of thousands of social security numbers stolen from 'secure servers' in hospitals and insurance providers or the credit card numbers that were taken from Target stores (110 million records compromised), or the hack at Sony (102 million records compromised), Anthem / Wellpoint health insurance had 69 to 80 million records compromised, Home Depot (56 million credit / debit cards compromised)... And the list goes on.
Yes this is a game and yes, as some have posted, the hackers may not be getting money out of it. But it is a place for them to train and they may be able to hack into other games that use similar coding where they can get to more sensitive information. And if they're willing to damage accounts in a game with no economic payback, think what they would do if they could get credit card account numbers.
In any event, it's not something to be taken lightly and anything that can be done as a deterrent is an action we should all support. Repairing the damage done to the accounts that were affected would be a step in that direction to let these hackers know that at least here they have no real power.
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