View Full Version : Habbo mass ban 'alt' names
edible
24-08-2012, 05:33 PM
My friend and I both had odd bans. The reason is something like 'HF-88884'. I have asked around and realised that years on Habbo have decided to ban all the names with spaces in. Unfortunately, if you made these on your main ID and no longer used the alt names then your main account has been permed too.
So far, it's only names with spaces in after the exploit yesterday which I guess was posted on here?
Michael
24-08-2012, 05:44 PM
Whats a alt name? & I have the account 'Fiiinch' or something on my ID LOL.
Samantha
24-08-2012, 05:51 PM
Is this the glitch that happened years ago? I remember making 'Samantha Walker' and it got banned but that was over 2 years ago, was it like that?
edible
24-08-2012, 05:53 PM
Alt name = alt code name. Yeah Samanfa it is.
There was a huge security exploit yesterday and furniture stolen related to it all. Was it not posted on here?
Michael
24-08-2012, 06:04 PM
Alt name = alt code name. Yeah Samanfa it is.
There was a huge security exploit yesterday and furniture stolen related to it all. Was it not posted on here?
Nope :p
edible
24-08-2012, 06:12 PM
Nope :p
In 2009 and 2010 you could make names on certain days with any character in. This led people to make name such as ' Jazz' with a space infront. Jazz is just an example. Yesterday, or a few days ago, these alt accounts as they're known were merged with the original. So ' Jazz' was now 'Jazz' and had access to all Jazz's furni. So say someone had made ' Michaels' all those years ago they could have stolen your furniture.
They were all unbanned when this mishap happened too. So say ' Michaels' had been banned when it was made the ban would have gone to ' Michaels' (two spaces).
I know someone made ' c' all those years ago and was able to steal all the furniture from the original account 'c'.
Michael
24-08-2012, 06:14 PM
In 2009 and 2010 you could make names on certain days with any character in. This led people to make name such as ' Jazz' with a space infront. Jazz is just an example. Yesterday, or a few days ago, these alt accounts as they're known were merged with the original. So ' Jazz' was now 'Jazz' and had access to all Jazz's furni. So say someone had made ' Michaels' all those years ago they could have stolen your furniture.
They were all unbanned when this mishap happened too. So say ' Michaels' had been banned when it was made the ban would have gone to ' Michaels' (two spaces).
I know someone made ' c' all those years ago and was able to steal all the furniture from the original account 'c'.
Oh right I get it, why have they only acted now?
edible
24-08-2012, 06:19 PM
Oh right I get it, why have they only acted now?
For some reason the alt accounts only merged into the original accounts yesterday. So they've taken immediate action.
MKR&*42
24-08-2012, 06:23 PM
For some reason the alt accounts only merged into the original accounts yesterday. So they've taken immediate action.
So I presume they will all be unbanned after the issue has been fixed? Or will it be a case of them adding characters where the spaces should be, I doubt that though.
edible
24-08-2012, 06:26 PM
So I presume they will all be unbanned after the issue has been fixed? Or will it be a case of them adding characters where the spaces should be, I doubt that though.
No idea how they will fix it. If you search Jazz for example it still shows the look that was on spaceJazz - no idea how they will fix.
MKR&*42
24-08-2012, 06:29 PM
No idea how they will fix it. If you search Jazz for example it still shows the look that was on spaceJazz - no idea how they will fix.
Oh goodness, hope they do find a way around it or I feel sorry for the owners of those banned accounts :P (Unless they deliberately made them in hope this day would come again... ;))
dunke
24-08-2012, 06:46 PM
happened to me i had the banned account "+++++++S" and it logged me in "S", i didn't take any furni or mess with his account (except.. adding dunke tag, changing outfit and joining my group.. oops), i also left him a sticky note in a locked room explaining how i got on his account so it's not a big suprise
picture in spoiler
http://i45.tinypic.com/uws2q.png
edible
24-08-2012, 06:51 PM
happened to me i had the banned account "+++++++S" and it logged me in "S", i didn't take any furni or mess with his account (except.. adding dunke tag, changing outfit and joining my group.. oops), i also left him a sticky note in a locked room explaining how i got on his account so it's not a big suprise
picture in spoiler
http://i45.tinypic.com/uws2q.png
Is the whole ID now banned?
Jordan
24-08-2012, 07:09 PM
This happened to me the other month but not with an account similarly named to the one I use. Not sure what caused it though. No accounts banned as I'm aware of.
Abdicators
24-08-2012, 08:17 PM
All accounts with a space in their name have been banned. Every single one. :P
dunke
24-08-2012, 08:45 PM
Is the whole ID now banned?
whenever i log in using the email and ANY password, it comes up with a ban message which is similar to yours, unable to receive password reset emails and can't access help tool, so im not sure (first time i've had a ban like this)
edible
24-08-2012, 09:12 PM
All accounts with a space in their name have been banned. Every single one. :P
& other characters it would appear. as long as they were before the name.
whenever i log in using the email and ANY password, it comes up with a ban message which is similar to yours, unable to receive password reset emails and can't access help tool, so im not sure (first time i've had a ban like this)
yeah, just tried it on mine with password 'hhhh' and i got the ban message. bit crap.
Samantha
24-08-2012, 09:25 PM
edible; So this only works with the symbols at the front or can they be anywhere?
edible
24-08-2012, 09:32 PM
@edible (http://www.habboxforum.com/member.php?u=27747); So this only works with the symbols at the front or can they be anywhere?
Just at the front but I think they banned names with spaces after now too as Abdicators said it and he's pretty clued up! :8
inki234
24-08-2012, 11:12 PM
i haz 50 accounts on my id idk if its got alts in most their from whiles back but i aint been banned so im happy ;) i doubt i got alts most are just got .'s and stuff
GoldenMerc
24-08-2012, 11:41 PM
How strange :P
meh, at least underscores are still ok :)
Ribbonaire
25-08-2012, 06:30 AM
Ugh I had one of those, good thing it was on another email.
karter
25-08-2012, 07:10 AM
I had one but it had already been changed to invalid#!hhau(random combination of letters)
How is a space in a name an alt name
---------- Post added 27-08-2012 at 04:05 PM ----------
meh, at least underscores are still ok :)
Underscore isnt an alt name, lost_witness had one lol
Abdicators
27-08-2012, 03:24 PM
abcdefghiklmnopqrstuvwxyz 1234567890 _ - @ ! : # , . ^ $ & * < > ? =
I believe those are all the characters that are permitted. I think anything else got banned. Spaces are not permitted in names.
edible
27-08-2012, 05:43 PM
How is a space in a name an alt name
---------- Post added 27-08-2012 at 04:05 PM ----------
Underscore isnt an alt name, lost_witness had one lol
Someone has never typed ALT + 255! Also, underscore names are seen as 'alt' if they're made after 2002.
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