I was only about 14 at the time. This was shortly after Luclin released and I had been playing EQ for a few years. I started getting bored and would search on server forums for anyone that posted their yahoo email. I had a brute force program that used dictionaries and encyclopedias with different combinations to find out their passwords. I would leave the program running and when I came home from school there would be a few accounts cracked.
I would then use it to obtain their EQ accounts and many had level 60's with Fungi, Cloak of Flames, etc. I would sell their stuff and then trade the platinum from that server for platinum on a different server to twink out characters. Then I would abandon their account. For the most part I'm pretty sure everyone got their accounts back and were item reimbursed by the GM's.
There was one lady who's account I obtained and she sent me a message from a friends account while I was on her character. She was part of a high end guild and she thanked me for stealing her account. She said she had been horribly addicted to EQ and when she could no longer login it made her step back and look at her life for the first time in awhile. She seemed genuine about it and wasn't just trying to win me over. She did get her account back and everything was fine but I'm not sure what happened to her afterwards.
I haven't done anything like that since and only did it for a few weeks but yeah I regret it.
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02-04-2017, 01:55 PM
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