Five days ago I was robbed.
Muglack
Five days ago I logged onto eRepublik expecting fun to be had and noticed that all of my money had been taken.
My 120 gold and 200+ CAD that I had worked for over a year (I was born on day 500) to accumulate and never once spending RL cash had been stolen.
Although my password is incredibly secure, not ever shared, and I'm not at all a "high profile" citizen, I assumed like many other out there that I had been hacked, robbed, and left to die.
After talking to other people on IRC I quickly realized that I was not the only one. And shortly there after came the revelation that those responsible were using a cookie sniffer embedded in a java applet to get login info and rob people. To make matters worse the advisor in the top right of my screen also informed me that "All we did was rob you LOLZ". So clearly the damage done was much more widespread then simply taking citizens money.
Although this is clearly the faults of the admins and programmers at eRepublik for allowing this sort of malicious content to be posted via articles in their game I was sure that it would be rectified quickly since so many people were effected.
Apparently I was mistaken.
As I said it was been 5 days. I have submit 4 tickets. I have received 0 response. I haven't even seen something from the admins acknowledging the problem and that they're working on fixing it.
This is unacceptable. Something needs to be done. In a game where everything relies on the constant spending of gold (boosters, combat, etc...) to be left empty handed virtually cripples an eCitizen.
So please vote, link, and pass on this article to anyone else that fell victim to this. If enough people are vocal about this maybe something will be done about it.
Thank you.
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Voted. Hope you get that sorted out soon Muglack.
A lot of people got robbed during last days. Most of them got their money back, so I hope U will get it too. Best of luck.
Good luck bro, keep sending those tickets, one every day. You may get a FP for spamming the ticket system, but it is the only way to get their attention.
It can take time, took me 3 months but i got all my gold back
THAT Is just pure BS...Admin Fail!
Good luck getting this rectified soon my friend.
This is a lesson to all of you, spend your money while you have the chance. Fiscal responsibility for none!
the only way i managed to get a response was leaving a comment on the erep insider...
Does that mean you can't fund the AM death pool? shucks
that totally sucks.
don't hold your breath waiting for a response, let alone any actual justice.
You need to send in a ticket with the subject and content they specified in the insider. I got mine back in just a few hours
We all read Admin's invitation for victimized citizens to send a ticket as well as their promise for quick resolution. Obviously, that was just more spin and our players are being allowed to feel the sting of dishonesty and laziness. This is completely unacceptable!
Thank you friends Loland. They robbed thousands. I found out the hacker, reported him, but nothing happens and he keeps on making multis with q5 tanks (there were over 100 of them in Galicia today). Your money bought them these tanks.
Hope it all gets worked out Muglack!
When are the Admin's going to make this game secure?