Hacking

Hacking is when a person "steals" your account number and password, then logs in as your character.

What could happen to me?

 * You could lose all of your equipment and/or items
 * You could lose lots of experience and levels if they get your character killed (accidentally or intentionally) - you could even end up back on Rookgaard.
 * You could lose the trust of other players if they impersonated you and caused harm to other players
 * You could lose days of premium access if they change the sex of your characters

Keylogger
This is a program that keeps track of every key you type on your keyboard. Some of the more advanced ones even keep track of window names, the names of text boxes you are typing in, and could even take periodic screenshots. All of this information may be silently emailed to the attacker, posted to a website, or may be accompanied by a trojan horse allowing the attacker to access your computer to download the keylogger files.

Trojan Horse
A trojan horse is a small program that runs silently on your computer and allows a remote computer to have access to the files stored on your harddrive. The attacker may be able to read your cached email messages, cached passwords in your web browser, download keylogger files, read your computer documents, and many other things.

Hacking Website
This is a website that is made to look like the legitimate Tibia website. You may be enticed or tricked into accessing the website in any number of ways, but when you type in your account number and password, it is stored or emailed to the attacker, and they can then log into Tibia as you.

Account Sharing
Account sharing is when more than one person use the same account so that they can be on-line almost constantly and gain levels faster. This almost always results in one of the group changing the password and stealing the entire account for themselves.

How to avoid being hacked

 * Never share your accout number or password with anyone for any reason.
 * Do not go to websites that people have posted to the Tibia forums or messaged to you in-game.
 * Do not enter your account number and password on ANY website that does not start with "http://www.tibia.com/"
 * Do not download and install Macro Programs, Multi-Clients, or other third-party applications to "help" you play Tibia. Besides being against CIP rules, there is a high probability that it will contain a keylogger or trojan horse.
 * Do not open email attachments from other Tibia players
 * Do not play Tibia on public computers (library, internet cafe, etc).
 * Do not store your Tibia account number and password in your email account or in a conspicuous file on your computer - memorize it.
 * Change your Tibia password frequently.

Related Links

 * Tibia Guide - Security