Why do people hack accounts?
Got hacked. Got banned. Sucks. But why? The guy logged in, inted and spammed racial epithets for 2 matches and left. Is it really so easy to compromise accounts? What was his plan?
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Well, I have seen Riot restore accounts in hacking cases. Usually on accounts where the account is otherwise clean and Riot is convinced there had been a genuine compromise, not account sharing or otherwise allowing someone else access to login info.
It is only as easy as the strength of your password. Your password should
- Not be a dictionary word (it can be multiple, as long as it is not an easy phrase)
- Not be a common password used by many people
- Be as long as you can make it, while still being memorable. I recommend a phrase that would be personal to you e.g. *my dog spot is the best dog in the world (spaces, if allowed, should be used freely).
- Have special characters ONLY if it is memorable to you (or if it is required)
- Should not just be common 'leet speak' replacements, e.g. p455w0rd
- should not be the same password as any other system
I am not a security expert, by any means, but this is typically how I handle my password creation. The single best thing that you can do to secure your password is to make it as long as possible. The longer it is, the harder it is to brute force*
* (there is a limit to this, but if the password hash is worth its salt (pun intended), then a long password would not exceed the hash bit length.
"hacking" lol accounts is something i never heard of. its usually "shared with a friend" or "thought i get free rp"
{quoted}>Anyways, some people just want to see others suffer. For whatever reason it makes them feel better.
But he doesn't get to see me suffer, or he wouldn't if I hadn't made this thread. You can troll people in unranked games too, why not just make a new account? Is there some potential monetary gain? No matter how bad my password he had to go to some effort to get it.