Hacker going around and doxing people

[Koutetsusteel]

There was a hacker who came into a public world earlier with a hacked client and was going up to people and telling them things like "So you live in ______ city."

They can apparently see everyone's IP addresses with their hacked client and then those IP addresses can be cross-referenced to figure out in what area someone lives.

Kind of sad that people are going to have to play using a VPN...

[Siro]

What, if anything, do you think a public IP exposes you to? Vague geolocation isn't particularly accurate. Remote clients can't install anything on your computer.

[Rokk]

Lmao, all they can see is your IP address. While this is probably not ideal, this isn't actually a dox.

One of those guys tried that with me, and they ended up getting the city wrong entirely. It all depends on how your ISP sets things up.

[Vatarga]

This is an old thing. People have done this for years to scare others on games, but it's harmless.

[Koutetsusteel]

Originally posted by Rokk:

Lmao, all they can see is your IP address. While this is probably not ideal, this isn't actually a dox.

One of those guys tried that with me, and they ended up getting the city wrong entirely. It all depends on how your ISP sets things up.

A lot of people in this game--especially my foreign friends do not like having their information exposed like that.

[Koutetsusteel]

Originally posted by Banana Brain:

I would format my harddrive just in case he installed some sort of malicious code onto your computer.

This isn't a thing. They can't do this.