Re: Dragon's Tale - a Massively Multiplayer Online RPG/Casino
Just letting everyone know he has finally replied to my emails, Here's what hes said.
Ill update this once ive logged in and withdrawn the currency.
UPDATE: All withdrawn now, after that experience though im highly doubtful that ill be back
Quote
Andrew Tepper
3:10 PM (11 minutes ago)
to me
I'm really sorry for the delay. When you made the request before, it
was during a flurry of hack attempts on the server, where someone
(many?) were trying passwords from compromised bitcointalk accounts
against the Dragon's Tale server. The timing and one of the
fingerprinting heuristics I use made me think that the **********
account was one of those compromised accounts. That's why I sort of
went silent on you - I have quite a few people try to scam the game
and I find it's best not to engage them.
This morning I pulled up a backup for an unrelated issue and spent
some time looking for inconsistencies between the questions you
answered by email and server logs from before your withdraw attempt -
I found everything was consistent with your answers, so I have
replaced the 250 BTM. The server will be back online in an hour or so
- you can withdraw once it's back up. Once again, I'm sorry for the
overly cautious approach.
Teppy
3:10 PM (11 minutes ago)
to me
I'm really sorry for the delay. When you made the request before, it
was during a flurry of hack attempts on the server, where someone
(many?) were trying passwords from compromised bitcointalk accounts
against the Dragon's Tale server. The timing and one of the
fingerprinting heuristics I use made me think that the **********
account was one of those compromised accounts. That's why I sort of
went silent on you - I have quite a few people try to scam the game
and I find it's best not to engage them.
This morning I pulled up a backup for an unrelated issue and spent
some time looking for inconsistencies between the questions you
answered by email and server logs from before your withdraw attempt -
I found everything was consistent with your answers, so I have
replaced the 250 BTM. The server will be back online in an hour or so
- you can withdraw once it's back up. Once again, I'm sorry for the
overly cautious approach.
Teppy
Ill update this once ive logged in and withdrawn the currency.
UPDATE: All withdrawn now, after that experience though im highly doubtful that ill be back
This is fantastic news! Ive witnessed Teppy interact only ethically with players over the years, so I didnt lose trust in his integrity, but being in this sort of position sans explanation was inevitably frightening. Thank you for posting the email; while it sucks that this is driving you from DT, its great to learn that your problem was ultimately resolved. Im sure fixing mine will also take some time, but its a burden removed to know it will be, and to know the security breach attempts seem to have been unrelated to keylogging or other client-side malware!
Since its unlikely my account was hacked with this method (Ive never reused my DT password), I wonder if I am/was suspected of doing the hacking, as you were. XD Or maybe there were just many failed attempts to access my account. Who knows?
I will follow suit and post to let you guys and gals know when all is sorted.