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ZeromuS
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Canada13408 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-10 17:48:43
March 10 2011 17:30 GMT
#41
wow thats pretty crazy. I did not expect someone to be this blatant with hacking I mean one loss, playing everize and is in master league with under 40 games played because he is winning at such a high rate. Thats crazy. I was about to say that it was probably not a hacker then I saw the WLR, and who the OP was and I thought.. wow thats madness.

EDIT: The above alongside the screen shot and game durations I should be clear to make people skimming this post not think only WLR has to do with hacking. Apologies for any confusion

- edited after reading excalibur's response to my post
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Excalibur_Z
Profile Joined October 2002
United States12248 Posts
March 10 2011 17:33 GMT
#42
On March 11 2011 02:30 ZeromuS wrote:
wow thats pretty crazy. I did not expect someone to be this blatant with hacking I mean one loss, playing everize and is in master league with under 40 games played because he is winning at such a high rate. Thats crazy. I was about to say that it was probably not a hacker then I saw the WLR, and who the OP was and I thought.. wow thats madness.


It's entirely possible to get that ratio legitimately. There are quite a few smurf accounts that have 30-0 and beyond records, including some that I've studied, and those wins were earned through legitimate means. The proof of hacking here is the spam of messages in the screenshot combined with the abnormally short game durations in his match history which results in the high amount of wins.
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urashimakt
Profile Joined October 2009
United States1591 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-10 17:40:39
March 10 2011 17:35 GMT
#43
On March 11 2011 02:30 Excalibur_Z wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 11 2011 02:01 R1CH wrote:
Oh Blizzard, really? No rate limiting on a client to client message that interrupts gameplay, wastes CPU and memory and fills the screen? I hate to be hating on Blizzard this but bugs like this are very amateurish at this level of game design.


The message itself doesn't actually interrupt gameplay, unless you mean it's similar to a DOS attack?

Suddenly, I'm more interested in seeing a Wizard battle than in seeing Blizzard bring the accused to justice.

I'm not sure why you'd prefer to use a file hosting site with download limits to host a JPG, but imgur takes mere seconds to upload something (no registration required) and has no such limits. I recommend it!
Who dat ninja?
Nizzy
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States839 Posts
March 10 2011 17:43 GMT
#44
I'm at work and don't want to download the file. Can anyone just upload that .jpg to tinypic or something? Thanks in advanced.
ZeromuS
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Canada13408 Posts
March 10 2011 17:47 GMT
#45
On March 11 2011 02:33 Excalibur_Z wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 11 2011 02:30 ZeromuS wrote:
wow thats pretty crazy. I did not expect someone to be this blatant with hacking I mean one loss, playing everize and is in master league with under 40 games played because he is winning at such a high rate. Thats crazy. I was about to say that it was probably not a hacker then I saw the WLR, and who the OP was and I thought.. wow thats madness.


It's entirely possible to get that ratio legitimately. There are quite a few smurf accounts that have 30-0 and beyond records, including some that I've studied, and those wins were earned through legitimate means. The proof of hacking here is the spam of messages in the screenshot combined with the abnormally short game durations in his match history which results in the high amount of wins.


I should have been more articulate with my expression of a high WLR as well as the duration of the games which i took for granted.

I failed to think about smurf accounts as well which is probably why I overlooked the additional information in my post.

hope I didn;t confuse anyone
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urashimakt
Profile Joined October 2009
United States1591 Posts
March 10 2011 17:56 GMT
#46
Here's an imgur link I've created while the download is off cooldown, for those who can't/won't/haven't gotten to see it yet:

http://i.imgur.com/jqIX8.jpg
Who dat ninja?
Cri du Chat
Profile Joined February 2010
Germany606 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-10 18:00:09
March 10 2011 17:57 GMT
#47
Ah funny. Watched TLO's stream this morning and he got dropped the same way on NA server.
I hope they ban the guy soon and fix whatever makes exploits like this possible.

Was the same guy even.
Ponyo
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States1231 Posts
March 10 2011 18:06 GMT
#48
looks like he will be in masters.. banned from it..
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hmsrenown
Profile Joined July 2010
Canada1263 Posts
March 10 2011 18:09 GMT
#49
On March 11 2011 02:30 Excalibur_Z wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 11 2011 02:01 R1CH wrote:
Oh Blizzard, really? No rate limiting on a client to client message that interrupts gameplay, wastes CPU and memory and fills the screen? I hate to be hating on Blizzard this but bugs like this are very amateurish at this level of game design.


The message itself doesn't actually interrupt gameplay, unless you mean it's similar to a DOS attack?

From the looks of it is very similar to DOS attack...
FrogOfWar
Profile Joined March 2010
Germany1406 Posts
March 10 2011 18:09 GMT
#50
On March 11 2011 01:27 Everize wrote:

"I'm 3900 Masters"


Says who?
Mailing
Profile Joined March 2011
United States3087 Posts
March 10 2011 18:11 GMT
#51
How did he get masters?

I thought the game doesn't promote people until they lose and stabilize mmr?
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caradoc
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Canada3022 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-10 18:19:09
March 10 2011 18:14 GMT
#52
Blatant hack. There are actually recently quite a few posts on battle.net reporting the same thing at different levels, its definitely not just you.

Blizz is definitely aware of it.

EDIT: you'd think they'd have been aware of it during wc3 though? wow.
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Excalibur_Z
Profile Joined October 2002
United States12248 Posts
March 10 2011 18:18 GMT
#53
On March 11 2011 03:11 Mailing wrote:
How did he get masters?

I thought the game doesn't promote people until they lose and stabilize mmr?


People have been promoted without losing, it's not unheard of. Furthermore it seems like in the past few months the promotion system has been revised and it doesn't hold players until they skip leagues anymore. We still have a small sample size because it's not common that players will go undefeated for so long.

Let's stay on topic though.
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orotoss
Profile Joined September 2010
United States298 Posts
March 10 2011 18:20 GMT
#54
This happened to TLO on his stream yesterday. He had to surrender after about a minute because it was unplayable.
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DaCruise
Profile Joined July 2010
Denmark2457 Posts
March 10 2011 18:27 GMT
#55
DO NOT DOWNLOAD THE FILE!,,when I clicked the link that OP posted my McAfee went bananas.

On topic: This drop sounds identical to one of the early drop hacks in WC3, where the game would get more and more laggy to the point where you eventually would get dropped. Only way to win was by killing the opponent before that happened.
However it didnt take long for an anti drop hack hack to arrive which cancelled the original hack. Ofc it would be much better if Blizzard would just insta-perma-ban these fuckers right away.
hmsrenown
Profile Joined July 2010
Canada1263 Posts
March 10 2011 18:27 GMT
#56
On March 11 2011 03:18 Excalibur_Z wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 11 2011 03:11 Mailing wrote:
How did he get masters?

I thought the game doesn't promote people until they lose and stabilize mmr?


People have been promoted without losing, it's not unheard of. Furthermore it seems like in the past few months the promotion system has been revised and it doesn't hold players until they skip leagues anymore. We still have a small sample size because it's not common that players will go undefeated for so long.

Let's stay on topic though.

Now that people have refreshed my memories, this is indeed like a DOS attack hack. TLO dropped out against the exact same guy on his stream not long ago.

Also this kind of hack was rampant in wc3, thought blizz would've known by now
spancho
Profile Joined September 2009
United States161 Posts
March 10 2011 18:29 GMT
#57
From a theoretical prospective, this is a pretty caveman style hack. Considering the power of run time code injection, it should theoretically be possible for an attacker to get your computer to execute arbitrary code through the built in time sync protocol.
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KillerPlague
Profile Joined June 2010
United States1386 Posts
March 10 2011 18:29 GMT
#58
can someone remove the link to the hack please. can we get a picture of the guys profile instead, or the replay?
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urashimakt
Profile Joined October 2009
United States1591 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-10 18:33:15
March 10 2011 18:31 GMT
#59
On March 11 2011 03:27 DaCruise wrote:
DO NOT DOWNLOAD THE FILE!,,when I clicked the link that OP posted my McAfee went bananas.

On topic: This drop sounds identical to one of the early drop hacks in WC3, where the game would get more and more laggy to the point where you eventually would get dropped. Only way to win was by killing the opponent before that happened.
However it didnt take long for an anti drop hack hack to arrive which cancelled the original hack. Ofc it would be much better if Blizzard would just insta-perma-ban these fuckers right away.

The file is fine. Popular AntiVirus programs are often prone to false alarms. If you don't trust the original download, I reposted the image on imgur a little bit ago.

On March 11 2011 03:29 KillerPlague wrote:
can someone remove the link to the hack please. can we get a picture of the guys profile instead, or the replay?

Where are you seeing a link to any hack? The download in the OP is just a picture uploaded to a file hosting site.
Who dat ninja?
Excalibur_Z
Profile Joined October 2002
United States12248 Posts
March 10 2011 18:34 GMT
#60
It's fine, I just embedded it in the OP.
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