Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-8-20150516041127

There have been a few reports recently, from this wikia and others, of "hacking".

What happens is that a regular user starts vandalizing and says their account has been taken over by someone else. But what's going on is not actually hacking. This happens in three basic ways:

1. You tell someone your password 2. You use a password that is too simple, and someone guesses it 3. You, the owner of the account, vandalizes and just claims to be "hacked".

It may be that the first two have happened here. I know that the third one has.

I've looked carefully at the data, and know that TheChromePerson and KingKool720 have both pretended to be hacked when it was actually them vandalizing.

Please be aware of the risk of the first two, and keep your password safe (and use something that can't be guessed!).

And on the third possibility - I don't want to encourage an untrusting and suspicious atmosphere here, but if someone says they have been hacked, please contact staff with links to both "good" edits (ones that are presumed to be by the real owner of the account) and "hacker" edits.

Thanks 