Although this posting may only be up the webmaster or GM's concernment, I figured everybody within the Illarion community should be briefed on just how easy it is for an individual person to seize an existing account for the Illarion boards, which may also cause that particular person to either obtain character information or to create a character for the purpose of matching the nickname from newly snatched forum account.
Since late January of this year, I have been exceedingly busy with a great quantity of work at my former workplace, causing my status in the world of Illarion to almost appear to the point of nonexistantance. Unfortunately, even when I did find the time to visit the forum here, I realized it was not at all possible to log into my account. There were times when I felt quite disgruntled with my situation but for the most part, I managed to blow it off, relax and I had soon thought of contacting the person nicknamed Alatar (the webmaster) to check up on the inconvenience. My effort to gather attention to this case sequentially changed after receiving a message in my inbox one day, informing me that I had new PMs (private messages) in my mailbox area here on the forum. How exactly can somebody read messages sent to them if he or she doesn't have access into their account? Luckily for me, the would-be prowler either forgot entirely or didn't bother to change my e-mail address that I registered with when I first signed-up here. Furthermore, my character's account appears to be in shipshape; nobody's touched it as far as I can tell.
Being a regular user on phpBB forums, it is real obvious to me how somebody conveniently debilitated my account, which I'm willing to explain to the webmaster and possibily the GMs in short time. But despite a few private messages and two posts that were not authorized by myself, everything seems spiffy and well updated now. I have taken some very precise steps in making sure this does not happen again to my account and even spent a bit of time engrossing in a quick conversation with the thief himself via MSN Messenger after finding out a couple of his MSN identities on the boards here. During this conversation, he was kind enough to mention a few other board names he's taken but I fear there could be more, which I'll also be sure to explain to anybody with any sort of authority, like the moderators. My only dilemma is being sure to send the information I have to the right person -- the webmaster AND the GMs need to be informed but should I send what I have to only the webmaster or to the webmaster and an active GM? Most of the board names appear to inactive users, so anybody active with the boards should be fine.
Anybody who may have anything else to share on this subject may feel free to post here or contact the webmaster and / or GMs. On a special note, I would like to personally thank the staff for the newly rejuvenated account system, which has allowed my son to really enjoy the game with its plenary and astonishing options. Hopefully, I too will be able to be quite entertained once I'm finished downloading the new client.
Uh oh.....
