Fired for being hacked

The whole issue of being fired for being hacked has always been a shady one since I joined Habbox. All the issue needs is consistency, personally I think a lengthy suspension or sacking is required as it is their fault at the end of the day.

Not so long back it was always the case that when management members got hacked it was fine. Alkaz and ,Jess, have been hacked numerous times over the years and I remember when Immenseman was GM and got hacked. All of them were welcomed back with open arms it seems but if a staff lower down was hacked they were fired. The funny thing is, the management deserve to be punished more as they should know better and put more at risk.


I'd do something along the lines of the bottom hierarchy of staff having a 2 week suspension, the next level up 4 week suspension and management members get fired when they are hacked, maybe even banning GMs from the site for being hacked.

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Originally Posted by Jordy

The whole issue of being fired for being hacked has always been a shady one since I joined Habbox. All the issue needs is consistency, personally I think a lengthy suspension or sacking is required as it is their fault at the end of the day.

Not so long back it was always the case that when management members got hacked it was fine. Alkaz and ,Jess, have been hacked numerous times over the years and I remember when Immenseman was GM and got hacked. All of them were welcomed back with open arms it seems but if a staff lower down was hacked they were fired. The funny thing is, the management deserve to be punished more as they should know better and put more at risk.


I'd do something along the lines of the bottom hierarchy of staff having a 2 week suspension, the next level up 4 week suspension and management members get fired when they are hacked, maybe even banning GMs from the site for being hacked.

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They would usually be safety banned anyway, no matter what their rank/role is.
The idea of suspension is interesting but wouldn't really work for eg general management because we I don't think we should have to go without a general manager for a month.

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Originally Posted by Jordy

The whole issue of being fired for being hacked has always been a shady one since I joined Habbox. All the issue needs is consistency, personally I think a lengthy suspension or sacking is required as it is their fault at the end of the day.

Not so long back it was always the case that when management members got hacked it was fine. Alkaz and ,Jess, have been hacked numerous times over the years and I remember when Immenseman was GM and got hacked. All of them were welcomed back with open arms it seems but if a staff lower down was hacked they were fired. The funny thing is, the management deserve to be punished more as they should know better and put more at risk.


I'd do something along the lines of the bottom hierarchy of staff having a 2 week suspension, the next level up 4 week suspension and management members get fired when they are hacked, maybe even banning GMs from the site for being hacked.

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Actually when Joe was hacked he was dismissed, as was Jess when she was hacked from her Moderator role. As I said previously in my post if someone on current General Management was hacked Jin would likely dismiss them.

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Originally Posted by sct

As far as I've been informed it was nothing to do with the clicking links that lead to a redirect thing being placed on probably quite a popular rare, and if it hadn't have been spotted then a lot of people could have then been hacked because of it.

I do think that if someone manages to get their accounts comprised then they should be removed as Habbox staff, it's always been the case as longs I have been staff. I got fired in 2007 for having my MSN hacked :P If someone manages to get their account hacked which leads to stuff on Habbox being tampared with then I do think they should pay the consequences for what happened. Especially if a moderator got hacked and like happened when Alkaz got hacked the full graphics section of the forum was messed up then I would expect some sort of punishment and I think dismissal is ok rather than a 'suspension period'.

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Haha bad times that by James we were kicked up the bumzy! To the initial post, you do realize that if a staff member gets hacked they do firstly jeopardize the official status of Habbox. Eventually you learn your lesson but it is about not clicking stupid links and being cautious, it maybe takes 5 mins to change your passwords to something more unique, and such. The procedure has always been there and should be followed. I wouldn't want news reporters or content designers being able to post porno on the site or something. Being hacked is always man-made, it doesn't happen by magic.

I don't care whether you fire someone or not for being hacked, what i will say is that you need to be consistent. I remember when Jess was hacked and she didn't get fired for it, so it's a bit unfair that others get fired for the same thing. you should either fire everyone who gets hacked or fire no one. sorry to use you as an example jessicarrr xx

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Originally Posted by leah

I don't care whether you fire someone or not for being hacked, what i will say is that you need to be consistent. I remember when Jess was hacked and she didn't get fired for it, so it's a bit unfair that others get fired for the same thing. you should either fire everyone who gets hacked or fire no one. sorry to use you as an example jessicarrr xx

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I'm not sure what happened in individual cases like that because I wasn't here nor was Matt. However 9 times out of 10 the staffmember is dismissed. Since the current management team has been here and even in the past before us, management have been quite consistent in upholding this dismissal policy.

HotelUser, are you denying or confirming that you did infact click the browser crashing link which JewishBear had which as I have already stated is a common source of remote code execution, because if so you are just as much in the wrong as the person who has been fired. And I'm not entirely sure exactly what happened but it sounds like someone managed to put some malicious code onto the page which does beg the VERY IMPORTANT question as to why HotelUser did not take simple steps to avoid anything such as that from being used.

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Originally Posted by Chippiewill

HotelUser, are you denying or confirming that you did infact click the browser crashing link which JewishBear had which as I have already stated is a common source of remote code execution, because if so you are just as much in the wrong as the person who has been fired. And I'm not entirely sure exactly what happened but it sounds like someone managed to put some malicious code onto the page which does beg the VERY IMPORTANT question as to why HotelUser did not take simple steps to avoid anything such as that from being used.

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what so jewish bear hacked Dave? whys jewish bear not banned then lol

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Originally Posted by GoldenMerc

what so jewish bear hacked Dave? whys jewish bear not banned then lol

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Not saying that JB did hack David, but David had been given the signs that it was a potential vulnerability and I'm fairly certain he would have clicked it. People are vulnerable despite all precautions... complacency.

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