Can you get your İP hacked from playing an online game?

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Umutnulleins Nov 9, 2018 @ 3:59pm

im really going crazy about this i heard that people can find your ip with wideshark or something from playing an online game whatta fk

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mimizukari Nov 9, 2018 @ 4:00pm

If someone finds your IP, there's nothing they can do with it, unless they know all your open ports and when you're online to bombard you with a denial of service. but your ISP can easily block offenders like that if it's any decent isp.

Last edited by mimizukari; Nov 9, 2018 @ 4:01pm

cSg|mc-Hotsauce Nov 9, 2018 @ 4:00pm

Dynamic IPs are a thing.

Umutnulleins Nov 9, 2018 @ 4:03pm

Originally posted by Liezerota:
If someone finds your IP, there's nothing they can do with it, unless they know all your open ports and when you're online to bombard you with a denial of service. but your ISP can easily block offenders like that if it's any decent isp.

ive seen ppl getting ddosed with only getting their ip revealed

SpunkyJones Nov 9, 2018 @ 4:05pm

Originally posted by Joseph Seed:
Originally posted by Liezerota:
If someone finds your IP, there's nothing they can do with it, unless they know all your open ports and when you're online to bombard you with a denial of service. but your ISP can easily block offenders like that if it's any decent isp.
ive seen ppl getting ddosed with only getting their ip revealed

If that happens, change your IP. You're worrying too much.

Umutnulleins Nov 9, 2018 @ 4:10pm

Originally posted by SpunkyJones:
Originally posted by Joseph Seed:
ive seen ppl getting ddosed with only getting their ip revealed

If that happens, change your IP. You're worrying too much.

how can i change my ip?

βird Nov 9, 2018 @ 4:11pm

Originally posted by Joseph Seed:
im really going crazy about this i heard that people can find your ip with wideshark or something from playing an online game whatta fk

IP hacked? Well ya. If you go on any game with a "public server" style gameplay you can. Rust, Gmod, TF2, CS:GO, so on. Because connecting to a public server not run by the devs themselves means whoever owns that server can get your IP, since you are using said IP to connect to their server. Even people who aren't admins can get your IP if they know how to on any game that uses Valve's server system. It is how my friend has been DDOS'ed by server owners or mods like 4 times now.

Last edited by βird; Nov 9, 2018 @ 4:12pm

Umutnulleins Nov 9, 2018 @ 4:16pm

Originally posted by Ƥyrefeather:
Originally posted by Joseph Seed:
im really going crazy about this i heard that people can find your ip with wideshark or something from playing an online game whatta fk

IP hacked? Well ya. If you go on any game with a "public server" style gameplay you can. Rust, Gmod, TF2, CS:GO, so on. Because connecting to a public server not run by the devs themselves means whoever owns that server can get your IP, since you are using said IP to connect to their server. Even people who aren't admins can get your IP if they know how to on any game that uses Valve's server system. It is how my friend has been DDOS'ed by server owners or mods like 4 times now.

so what can we do with games that dont have dev made servers?

CJ HUNTER Nov 9, 2018 @ 5:10pm

Originally posted by Joseph Seed:
Originally posted by Ƥyrefeather:

IP hacked? Well ya. If you go on any game with a "public server" style gameplay you can. Rust, Gmod, TF2, CS:GO, so on. Because connecting to a public server not run by the devs themselves means whoever owns that server can get your IP, since you are using said IP to connect to their server. Even people who aren't admins can get your IP if they know how to on any game that uses Valve's server system. It is how my friend has been DDOS'ed by server owners or mods like 4 times now.
so what can we do with games that dont have dev made servers?

You create your own server, invite other people to join it, get their IPs and do absolutely nothing with them.

Umutnulleins Nov 9, 2018 @ 5:28pm

lol

Freezus Nov 10, 2018 @ 10:21am

Once me and my 5 friends got hacked in CSGO official servers by some 5 russian dudes, they started spamming weird things and we lost connection to game and our internet got very laggy.

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Kargor Nov 10, 2018 @ 11:54am

Originally posted by Liezerota:
If someone finds your IP, there's nothing they can do with it, unless they know all your open ports

That's not a big deal. However, people are rarely connected to the Internet "directly", unless they know what they are doing, like keeping their servers updated. Most users will instead be connected to a router that performs something called "NAT" (Network address translation). You don't really need to know what it does exactly, but a side effect of that is that it blocks unsolicited access to everything running on your computer.

In other words, your box connects to Steam and Steam can talk back to it. You connect to a website and the website can send you the pages you want to view. Those are kind of "implied" permissions: you connect somewhere, so you it's assumed you want the data that comes back. However, nothing else can send you anything -- it gets discarded on that little router box, unless you have specifically allowed such data transfer beforehand.

As such, attacking normal users by exploiting bugs in server software that might not even know they are running has gotten rare, probably to an extent that makes it insignificant. You might be running a vulnerable server on your box, but unless you told your router about it, nobody outside your home can connect to it so it doesn't matter how vulnerable it is.

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