Cupcaek (Habbo Staff) hacked?

[Dean]

Cupcaek reportedly been hacked

http://i47.tinypic.com/axnqsi.png

[Kyle]

lmao at [Moe]

deffo not him

[Mathew]

why are people so unbelievably stupid? we wait absolutely years to get staff on the client, and then when it eventually happens... we get one who is friendly, active and supportive. let's be honest - cupcaek was a good member of staff. now we have pathetic children who have nothing better to do, spoiling the game for the rest of us and creating an extremely negative image of the habbo community. this is why paul keeps banging on about "trust" - because there's some idiots out there who clearly lack some brain cells. it's obviously not fierycold because he's biggest habbo suck up 2k1-2k12, but there's still a moron behind the avatar right now.

[Shorty]

Nice way to attempt to get FieryCold into trouble but Sulake won't fall for it.

[MKR&*42]

why are people so unbelievably stupid? we wait absolutely years to get staff on the client, and then when it eventually happens... we get one who is friendly, active and supportive. let's be honest - cupcaek was a good member of staff. now we have pathetic children who have nothing better to do, spoiling the game for the rest of us and creating an extremely negative image of the habbo community. this is why paul keeps banging on about "trust" - because there's some idiots out there who clearly lack some brain cells. it's obviously not fierycold because he's biggest habbo suck up 2k1-2k12, but there's still a moron behind the avatar right now.

You summed this up so brilliantly lol xD.

'Tis pathetic what people do these days for a bit of fun, probably ruined any chance we have of getting staff back in the hotel now :rolleyes:

[Fifty-Six]

Stupid. Hope they hunt down whoever hacked them.

[Samantha]

LMAO if it was FieryCold Paul might give him 50c for owning up.

What a stupid thing to do though. Jurv; is loving his fame on that friend bar though.

[Red]

Well I know who it was because they came into desk other day and she was being friendly with the hacker and added them to her friend list. I actually doubted then if she was even real staff. There was something dodgey about her.

[Inseriousity.]

That's a shame. Get some decent staff and they'll be fired probably because someone thought they'd have a bit of fun. Hopefully people will notice matt and cameron and they can do a bit of advertising if they get lots of friend requests haha. ;)

[Jurv]

LMAO if it was FieryCold Paul might give him 50c for owning up.

What a stupid thing to do though. Jurv; is loving his fame on that friend bar though.

hahaha totally ;) and odear, i thought staff would have been more secure than anyone else

[Abdicators]

http://img600.imageshack.us/img600/1648/modhack.png

[sex]

she did seem dodgey always going on about her "other account" and how she was familiar with habbox... Red;

[Jurv]

do you reckon she was rich?

[Red]

Yea and the hacker said the same as cupcaek did to me a few days before so not sure but I think she has been hacked for a while.

[Jarkie]

Say bye bye to seeing staff again. Paul will get informed about this, no doubt.

I swear ages ago staff had to log in a secure server and when someone access their account it will block them cos different mac address etc. or is that only for proper office workers?

[xxMATTGxx]

Say bye bye to seeing staff again. Paul will get informed about this, no doubt.

I swear ages ago staff had to log in a secure server and when someone access their account it will block them cos different mac address etc. or is that only for proper office workers?

All he has to do is go on Twitter and he will know about it for sure :P

[Abdicators]

Say bye bye to seeing staff again. Paul will get informed about this, no doubt.

I swear ages ago staff had to log in a secure server and when someone access their account it will block them cos different mac address etc. or is that only for proper office workers?

yeah as far as i'm aware you need a certificate to get onto the client if you've got staff privileges.

[Kushja]

yeah as far as i'm aware you need a certificate to get onto the client if you've got staff privileges.

Only for house keeping, not to log into client.

[GommeInc]

It's one thing to be so stupid as to let your account be compromised, and another to attack a member of staff during such a sensitive moment where staff may actually make themselves accountable, contactable and sociable on the hotel

[lawrawrrr]

just wrote a news article on this in less than 10 minutes

omg.


cant believe this tbh, gonna come on for an investigate now

[Abdicators]

Only for house keeping, not to log into client.
Not sure thats correct. TUNNY has gained access to various moderator accounts but he has not been able to access the client. I think they implemented it after FINCH had his fun.

[lawrawrrr]

Fifty-Six; PUT YOUR ROOM LIMIT AT MORE PLZ

[Fifty-Six]

Fifty-Six; PUT YOUR ROOM LIMIT AT MORE PLZ

Sorry. Fixed now but ppl leaving once MOD-SAMURAI12 left.

[lawrawrrr]

damn i was hoping id get on before he went :(

[Fifty-Six]

damn i was hoping id get on before he went :(

he didnt say anything

[vito201-:D]

Only for house keeping, not to log into client.
Not sure thats correct. TUNNY has gained access to various moderator accounts but he has not been able to access the client. I think they implemented it after FINCH had his fun.
I thought it was just the HKing... maybe I'm wrong though, it's been a long time since someones done it - the last one was that Italian...

The CRTs do get leaked though, I've been sent two recent release ones by people attempting to get everyone they know to help them gain access to HKing. xP No idea where they got ahold of them though... maybe there's a new leak on the ES hotel... (Both were sent by ES users).
- Alex (Shenk).

[Shorty]

Not sure thats correct. TUNNY has gained access to various moderator accounts but he has not been able to access the client. I think they implemented it after FINCH had his fun.
What the hell? What's wrong with saying that name, we all know it happened.

[Abdicators]

Not sure thats correct. TUNNY has gained access to various moderator accounts but he has not been able to access the client. I think they implemented it after FINCH had his fun.

Wow, who the hell are you? Did you join yesterday or something?

[xxMATTGxx]

Aren't those names people who did it in the past anyway?

[Abdicators]

Aren't those names people who did it in the past anyway?
...Yes. ...Yes they are. TUNNY has gained access to moderator accounts a few times over the years.

[MKR&*42]

If the names were Finch (believe that's what i saw), then it's obvious that he clearly did gain access to the US HK I believe? But yeah years ago xD.

[Kushja]

Yeah, I remember the whole deal with FINCH ;)

Hmm :p

[Sarah]

someones going to be in trouble in the morning!

[sex]

Found out who it was ;)
Use to be Habbox staff years ago lol!
That should be enough of a hint for most old users

[Zak]

fail staff

[lawrawrrr]

sharing is caring....

i have my suspicions!!

[Sarah]

I agree sharing is caring.. a little hint?

[j0rd]

I need a hint too!

[Futz]

Haha Moe, didn't Lime's account get compromised too? I'm sure his casino was renamed to 'I got owned' today! But fairplay, it's quite comical how upset certain people in this thread are getting over this. gnarlyyyyyy

[lawrawrrr]

Haha Moe, didn't Lime's account get compromised too? I'm sure his casino was renamed to 'I got owned' today! But fairplay, it's quite comical how upset certain people in this thread are getting over this. gnarlyyyyyy

Yeah everyone's saying it looks like the same person hacked both of them!

[Michael]

If someone does know id suggest you contact Habbo instead of making a Cluedo scene out of it, Habbo will probably know who it is via checking IPs but it'll help them if you tell them who it is - you may even get a thanks off them.

[Richie]

Hopefully they'll trace the hacker, then let the law take over. The really sad thing is, people are either really cold hearted or forget this is effecting real peoples lives. It's bad enough to hack a random user but when you start hacking people and putting their job on the line, you have a serious problem. As much as I dislike some of the staff I'd never wish for them to be fired, it's a game to us, reality to them.

[Dean]

Hopefully they'll trace the hacker, then let the law take over. The really sad thing is, people are either really cold hearted or forget this is effecting real peoples lives. It's bad enough to hack a random user but when you start hacking people and putting their job on the line, you have a serious problem. As much as I dislike some of the staff I'd never wish for them to be fired, it's a game to us, reality to them.

I really don't think that they will get fired because it would be Sulake's fault for poor security, no?

[Richie]

I really don't think that they will get fired because it would be Sulake's fault for poor security, no?

I suppose it depends if the security breach was on her end or theirs :P lets hope she doesn't.

[lawrawrrr]

She's relatively new to Habbo staff (I think her account was the end of april if my memory is working) so I reckon she'll either get a warning or just got rid of straight away. It's a shame really... And people wonder why there's no playing Staff members!! Unless it was all a publicity stunt, doubt it though.

Richie; is hacking actually something the law could get involved in? I don't really know much about internet policing :P

[xxMATTGxx]

She's relatively new to Habbo staff (I think her account was the end of april if my memory is working) so I reckon she'll either get a warning or just got rid of straight away. It's a shame really... And people wonder why there's no playing Staff members!! Unless it was all a publicity stunt, doubt it though.

Richie; is hacking actually something the law could get involved in? I don't really know much about internet policing :P

Yeah it is, they have departments for this sort of stuff.

One of the most recent ones:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10207486

It depends if Sulake want to take it further really.

[sex]

Probably under paul they will want to hush it all up and just pay the people who know about it the right amount to tell them who did it because they are too stupid to find out for themselves lol

[Chris]

Shame this has happened, I hope she doesn't lose her job over it.

[kuzkasate]

Thanks to ******* idiots like these, the game is going to get ruined even more and then these are the same people that end up complaining! Hope she doesn't get fired, she seemed genuinely nice.

[xxMATTGxx]

http://mattgarner.net/upload/images/2012/07/16/TZEPW.png

[Jarkie]

http://mattgarner.net/upload/images/2012/07/16/TZEPW.png

LOL. aka he has no idea how it happened.

[lawrawrrr]

LOL. aka he has no idea how it happened.

Or he's trying to not talk about it and encourage the hackers?

[Empired]

LMAO if it was FieryCold Paul might give him 50c for owning up.
50c for FieryCold is like offering me a penny Sam ;l

And ugh, I really like Cupcaek. I hope everything turns out OK for her :(

[Shorty]

LOL. aka he has no idea how it happened.

He does, it was discussed via DM. That is all.

[xxMATTGxx]

He does, it was discussed via DM. That is all.

So he's back to using Direct Messages now? ;)

[MKR&*42]

He does, it was discussed via DM. That is all.

Think you should leak it ;) kidding x Gotta respect the man for actually keeping it private. Wonder what will actually happen to her.

[Abdicators]

Think you should leak it ;) kidding x Gotta respect the man for actually keeping it private. Wonder what will actually happen to her.

Nothing. She wasn't real. Account not used by staff, badge was left by accident. Hacker had no in-client powers, no certificates, no access to housekeeping.

[Shockwave.2CC]

Why do people hack people, it's a virtual game, what do people think they get out of it

Woo at me in the friends list (in pic)

[MKR&*42]

Nothing. She wasn't real. Account not used by staff, badge was left by accident. Hacker had no in-client powers, no certificates, no access to housekeeping.

See I've been thinking about the staff badge thing all day (ngl) and whether people still got powers if they had the staff badge. I presume via this incident they don't anymore^ and that the "powers" are controlled seperately.

Who the heck was she then? How can you accidently leave a staff badge on an account? xD.

[Abdicators]

See I've been thinking about the staff badge thing all day (ngl) and whether people still got powers if they had the staff badge. I presume via this incident they don't anymore^ and that the "powers" are controlled seperately.

Who the heck was she then? How can you accidently leave a staff badge on an account? xD.

Not sure. Maybe she was hired as a moderator, account was created and then something fatal happened and she wasn't able to take up the position. Tragic.

[Kyle]

So this means that cupcaek was the hacker all along. There we all were thinking that sulake had started involving themselves in the community again. lollololololololololollo

[MKR&*42]

Not sure. Maybe she was hired as a moderator, account was created and then something fatal happened and she wasn't able to take up the position. Tragic.

Hmm I hate mysteries aha :(. Oh well, least no major damage was actually caused... which is probably what the ""hacker"" would have done if she had the staff powers attached :L.

Least you're more open about it than Shorty ;) kidding bbe x

[Michael]

So this cupcaek that attended Habbox events was most likely a Habbox user on a staff account, damn I thought Habbox was special to her :(

[Abdicators]

So this means that cupcaek was the hacker all along. There we all were thinking that sulake had started involving themselves in the community again. lollololololololololollo

To be fair, various Sulake staff are always in the client. GPN$, L-Mike, J:Nick:C, Ubergergely are always on. Legal-Chick makes alot of appearances too.

[sex]

See I've been thinking about the staff badge thing all day (ngl) and whether people still got powers if they had the staff badge. I presume via this incident they don't anymore^ and that the "powers" are controlled seperately.

Who the heck was she then? How can you accidently leave a staff badge on an account? xD.

Someone said in the room last night there was two staff badges, one for show and one with actual powers. Idk if its true..

[Kyle]

To be fair, various Sulake staff are always in the client. GPN$, L-Mike, J:Nick:C, Ubergergely are always on. Legal-Chick makes alot of appearances too.
But there are no community staff. The only people that come on are the coders and that's probably only to check out their creations and get feedback.

I miss the days where you could talk to staff without using other mediums such as twitter or facebook. :( They say that they're bringing some old features back but they're completely ruining them. Room comps used to be sifted through by habbo staff and the best rooms were picked. Now it's all automated and whoever has a certain furni in their room can just vote themselves to win. Well... Probably a discussion for a different thread.

[Andii]

Well I know who it was because they came into desk other day and she was being friendly with the hacker and added them to her friend list. I actually doubted then if she was even real staff. There was something dodgey about her.

lmao who was it :) :) hehe you wee sneaky child ;)

[MKR&*42]

Someone said in the room last night there was two staff badges, one for show and one with actual powers. Idk if its true..

IT could be true. There are 2 badges - HS1 and ADM. The only difference on them is 4 pixels removed on one of them and I suppose it's possible 1 could be attached with powers and the other not. I remember reading about this incident a few months ago;


[Canada and USA] Wrong badge handout!


The American and Canadian version of Habbo used to do similar competitions which only required 1 news article being written then posted twice. When the staff handed out the badges for the "Kappa Gamma" competition, they made a horrible mistake. Instead of the competition badges being given out, the staff badges were given out instead - along with every staff right. Sulake quickly had to "hit the panic" button and close the hotel whilst they retrieved stolen furniture and safety-ban accounts - after that, everything was back to normal.


Completely forgot what year though. Maybe 2006? Which is why I've wondered if it's been altered since then :L

[sex]

IT could be true. There are 2 badges - HS1 and ADM. The only difference on them is 4 pixels removed on one of them and I suppose it's possible 1 could be attached with powers and the other not. I remember reading about this incident a few months ago;


Completely forgot what year though. Maybe 2006? Which is why I've wondered if it's been altered since then :L


ADM sounds like it would have the staff power because its probably short for admin haha :P
The two staff badge thing was said by the apparent hacker

[MKR&*42]

ADM sounds like it would have the staff power because its probably short for admin haha :P
The two staff badge thing was said by the apparent hacker

Probably :P I still fail to see how they gave out the wrong badge. The badge code they were meant to give out is "KH2" which is nowhere near "ADM" or "HS1" xD.

[Shorty]

A badge is a badge, badges don't control account permissions.

[Bob1]

I've only skim read so apologise if these mysteries have already been cleared up and I can't remember who asked what -
Badges don't equal rights. MODs, player support, techies, marketing managers etc all have the same "STAFF" badge but don't have the same user rights, they all have access to different tools. In the day they stopped many techies or marketing staff from having any access to ban and other user related tools. The account could have been issued a badge and hold no in-game rights or HK access, they used to do this for many reasons, more often than not it was because the account was a campaign account.
I can't enlighten as to quite how it works these days but as far as my previous knowledge stems certified access was only required for HK not client, they also introduced access to HK for approved IP addresses only (i.e. each member of player support was required to submit their IP address to be granted access). I don't know how that worked out or if it's still used, I left just as they implemented it. Hope that solves some mystery, I always wanted to be Jessica Fletcher.

Of course they're going to put it out there this account held no rights as they're still in the glare of the media while they're clearing up "pervert paradise", wether it actually did or not is impossible to tell unless the "hacker" used them on anyone. Hotel-wide messages were always a favourite.

[October]

Badges hold no power anymore. Puffin had said this in the council, that after the merge, the badges do not have any additional powers or privilege attached to them. That is why our VIP badges didn't let us enter full rooms.

Edit, not after the merge but after qe switched to Flash.

[LiquidLuck.]

Mathew couldn't have said it better.

[MKR&*42]

Badges hold no power anymore. Puffin had said this in the council, that after the merge, the badges do not have any additional powers or privilege attached to them. That is why our VIP badges didn't let us enter full rooms.

Edit, not after the merge but after qe switched to Flash.

Explains the Kappa Gamma incident I mentioned earlier then :P

[shiver]

omg
lock ur rooms
pick up ur furni
MOE is coming.

[Xedia]

Has Paul's twitter been hacked too?.. http://i.imgur.com/m0VRS.png

Edit: NVM, I think one of his fans made it for him. :)

Anyway, I'm sure this is what potential investors are looking for? :D

[GoldenMerc]

Has Paul's twitter been hacked too?.. http://i.imgur.com/m0VRS.png

Edit: NVM, I think one of his fans made it for him. :)

Anyway, I'm sure this is what potential investors are looking for? :D

Communicating and working with the public is a strong asset to have

[Xedia]

Communicating and working with the public is a strong asset to have

And replying directly to them isn't enough? Anyway, I cba with him now, I've had my weekly dose of this man.

[GoldenMerc]

And replying directly to them isn't enough? Anyway, I cba with him now, I've had my weekly dose of this man.

More interaction = more responses etc

[Pigperson]

Silly how it could happen but silly that people still do this.

Will

[October]

Communicating and working with the public is a strong asset to haveI wouldn't go as far to say he works with us...


More interaction = more responses etcHe interacts with the same group of brown-nosers though. Helps him look better, replying to people that only post positive things about Habbo, no complaints just "OMG I LOVE EVERYTHING YOU'RE DOING AHHHH"

[GoldenMerc]

I wouldn't go as far to say he works with us...

He interacts with the same group of brown-nosers though. Helps him look better, replying to people that only post positive things about Habbo, no complaints just "OMG I LOVE EVERYTHING YOU'RE DOING AHHHH"

Quite a biased report considering he blocked you :P
I see where hes coming from, you cant make a full arguement with points of why this and why that through twitter, with the limit. Plus it looks un-professional

[October]

Communicating and working with the public is a strong asset to have


More interaction = more responses etc


Quite a biased report considering he blocked you :P
I see where hes coming from, you cant make a full arguement with points of why this and why that through twitter, with the limit. Plus it looks un-professionalNo, even before he blocked me I was quite vocal with my thoughts and opinions that he preferred positive comments than alternative. He doesn't provide helpful replies, either, just a "thnx" or a "k"

[Kyle]

What do you expect? a detailed analysis of every tweet he gets? If you tweet negatively constantly then you're going to be blocked. The key here is to have a little bit of tact; if you want to criticize then make it constructive. Although his replies may be short I'm sure a lot of the ideas are being taken on board.

lol at @Xedia (http://www.habboxforum.com/member.php?u=101919); thinking he got hacked cos of the bacon av. cracking up

[karter]

umm see what paul says

http://i49.tinypic.com/2ag18hu.png

[tm]

http://i49.tinypic.com/2ag18hu.png

LOL if we're quoting stuff he's said that isn't true we could be here for a very very long thread.

I would bank on them never mentioning it, even *when* it happens again. It's happened so many times before.

[xxMATTGxx]

umm see what paul says

http://i49.tinypic.com/2ag18hu.png


LOL if we're quoting stuff he's said that isn't true we could be here for a very very long thread.

I would bank on them never mentioning it, even *when* it happens again. It's happened so many times before.

He is actually correct, no staff member was hacked. Posted on previous pages in this thread, the account wasn't actually used by Staff and the badge was left over by mistake. There was no powers or access to any of the tools Habbo Staff use and therefore pretty much harmless.

[Kyle]

He has a point though, it wasn't an actual staff member, just a staff account. When it has happened before I'm sure he wouldn't deny that it happened if it was an actual staff member but he's doing the right thing by not bringing it too far into the spot light.

[tm]

He is actually correct, no staff member was hacked. Posted on previous pages in this thread, the account wasn't actually used by Staff and the badge was left over by mistake. There was no powers or access to any of the tools Habbo Staff use and therefore pretty much harmless.
I don't understand then, she was in the welcome lounge literally the day before this saying she was an events/community staff member.

See also:
http://www.habboxforum.com/showthread.php?t=753537&p=7611375#post7611375

Paul also says it's some sort of hoax? https://twitter.com/PaulLaFo/status/225250117698064384

[Inseriousity.]

haha at least no-one lost their job then.

[Kyle]

I don't understand then, she was in the welcome lounge literally the day before this saying she was an events/community staff member.

See also:
http://www.habboxforum.com/showthread.php?t=753537&p=7611375#post7611375

Paul also says it's some sort of hoax? https://twitter.com/PaulLaFo/status/225250117698064384
It came to light that it was actually never a community staff account, just an account that was given the staff badge for whatever reason (probably a mod that quit or something) and then was discarded. The hacker found the account and used it to impersonate a staff member.

[tm]

It came to light that it was actually never a community staff account, just an account that was given the staff badge for whatever reason (probably a mod that quit or something) and then was discarded. The hacker found the account and used it to impersonate a staff member.
Oh really! That clears it up I guess, thanks. x