The day OSI got pwned
It all started out with an icqmessage from a friend.
In the beginning it all seemed like a bored GM trying to have some fun
by locking down items by West Bank, Trammel (Europa). When I got there,
all the items was gone except for this:
Since I was bored too, i paged a GM with the text "I'd like to buy the head of Lord British".
So I started waiting and waiting. The queue moved 1 step per 30+ minutes and I was
no. 75 in line for assistance. After about two three hours items started appearing again. (still 40 in queue or something like that :P)
The one that put out the items was invisible at all times when putting out and later removing the items again.
"OK", I thought, "we have a GM that's just about to be fired." Then I clicked the paintings...
This can be no work of a healthy OSI-employe. Or can it? :P
Atleast me and my friend didn't think so, so he cancelled his page and made a harassment-page
(highest priority) with something like "you're being hacked", while I stayed in the normal pagequeue.
Waiting, waiting and waiting more. The items were removed when my friend got in line 4, probably by the guy that put them out.
When my friend got to number 2 in queue finally the head was removed too, but the GM's still didn't respond to the page.
After about a half hour from the head was removed, we both got the same message from GM Phields:
Anyways, the fact remains that it must have been someone with access to an other client than we use.
Someone was moving around invisibly, placing out theese items fast while everyone stood still watching what was happening.
Is this a hack or just an exploit? I don't know, but I'm going to change all my acc# passwords :P