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Originally Posted by Bobo Fett
If OP is the victim, he needs to be checking things on his end. We could try to offer him some advice, but it's going to be pretty general until we know what he's done so far. The only way he's going to get some solid advice in this regard is to get involved in a discussion about what he's done thus far, and more details about his situation and what happened.
That's the elephant in the room that hasn't really been discussed. I can understand why the OP might not want to talk about spyware, etc. since it might weaken his case that WPN is responsible. But nevertheless it is a very real possiblity.
Last year someone broke into my home with the intention of transferring money from my Carbon account into another account. He broke in very surreptitiously about 3 times and then when he realized that there was no way to transfer money from player to player on Carbon, he stole a lot of cash and personal possessions. If Carbon had p2p transfers, the person would have succeeded and I would have never known what happened. I'd be the one on 2+2 shouting that I never allowed anyone on my computer and claiming that it must have come from Carbon's side.
In my case it turned out to be the son of friends of mine who did this. There are just so many possibilities of friends, acquaintences and complete strangers who might compromise a player's account by any means possible; you just never know for sure.
I've been a big advocate of players maintaining their anonymity for security reasons for several years now. A couple of years ago I got into an idiotic flame war with Microbob simply because I suggested that players need to stop and think before giving up their anonymity. But as careful as I've been, my computer was still compromised.
I don't know if the OP realizes it or not, but right now their is enough info out there for anyone reading the threads in both forums to simply disconnect him at will if he decides to continue to play on his current account.