Sunday, January 6th, 2008
Issue: 56   Editor: Nyxxinator


`Terrorism` on Bootleggers! Squidee
Al-Qaeda walk amongst us on Saturday evening. At 15:00PM Bootleggers time, Al-Qaeda so they named themselves were hacking players and sending out spam messages to every player online at the time. The hacker and spammer looked at it this way.. "I didn't ruin it (The game). You wanna know how I hacked all these people? A .php script to try every users password."

Words such as password, letmein, 1234, qwerty, monkey, abc123, arsenal, 123, 123456, liverpool, porn, bootleggers, abc, abc123, password1, kthxbai along with other curse words were added to the scripts list of common passwords.

"So you can see it is their own fault they get hacked. As for the spamming, it is not hurting anyone, maybe just getting in the way a little bit," concluded the spammer

All these actions were carried out due to his/their Swiss Bank account being taken away, nobody knows if the Swiss bank account was looked at as exploited money and the account was taken away or his/their Swiss Bank account didn't have a transaction with it in the alloted time.

Always make sure you keep your password secure and away from anyone, here are a few tips on how NOT to get hacked!


  • Never share your password with anyone
  • Change your password at least every two months
  • Never send your password in Bootmails from people claiming to be staff!
  • Include punctuation marks and/or numbers.
  • Mix capital and lowercase letters.
  • Include similar looking substitutions, such as the number zero for the letter 'O' or '$' for the letter 'S'.
  • Create a unique acronym.
  • Include phonetic replacements, such as 'Luv 2 Laf' for 'Love to Laugh'.
  • Don't use a password that is listed as an example of how to pick a good password.
  • Don't use a password that contains personal information (name, birth date, etc.)
  • Don't use words or acronyms that can be found in a dictionary.
  • Don't use keyboard patterns (asdf) or sequential numbers (1234).
  • Don't make your password all numbers, uppercase letters or lowercase letters.
  • Don't use repeating characters (aa11).


Use these tips and you'll be safe. You won't need to worry about anymore hackers trying to get into your account. Have a lovely week and stay safe on Bootleggers and real-life.