Couldn't he just suspend the work instead of aborting? Then resume after the account is fixed again?

I have an idea. Let's all calm down. WCG has said they are looking into it, give them a chance. Most likely it is some "hackers" trying to get some free points for XRP with Ripple Labs. A few people do not mean that the entire team on RL is bad or that the massive amount of work being done is not worthwhile.

While annoying and troublesome this hardly cause for a knee jerk reaction or witch hunt. Hopefully the techs can get an IP# or some other clue as to what is going on. I am betting CFG would help if asked.


And another thing I joined RL, left a few weeks later and again rejoined after another week or so. ALL my points followed me. Just like joining and leaving any other team. They are still your points.

Cheers!

I changed my password and my clients are sending/receiving work fine. Let's see what happens tomorrow. Hopefully the WCG staff will have more information soon.

That's correct. If you get changed to another team by whatever means, you can change back immediately before the end-of-day stats start/midnight UTC and your points for the entire day will go to your correct team. The scumbuckets pulling this stunt depend on two things, your not noticing that you have changed teams and that you have a easily breakable password for your WCG username. Scribe noted in another thread that the WCG folks may not want to disclose how this has happened to avoid giving out useful information to others wanting to hack us. Still, I don't think it's very complicated. The key is being able to log in to the WCG website under your username. If your password is weak/simple/easily guessed, once a hacker is in, they simply go to your team page, quit your current team, go to the Ripple team page and join there. There is probably more that has to be done on the Ripple side to get your stolen points assigned to their account. It all starts with a password that is weak to begin with. It would be nice to hear from the Ripple folks here. I though they had someone watching their team thread? It would be nice if they could see which account a hacked username's points got assigned to on the Ripple side. I would think/hope that would be a way to ID the lowlifes responsible. WCG has banned a very small number of folks over the years for mis-behavior. I'd hope Ripple would take a firm, hard line with these culprits too.

Not much about this sort of lowlife makes sense to begin with. Not changing your password is probably intentional. Changing it would increase the likelihood of your noticing that you've been switched to the RL team. They just need to correctly guess what it is to switch you. Once they know it, they could keep switching you, at least until you change your password. Bottom line is it pays not to use simple, easily guessed passwords for anything on the web. It's amazing the number of people that use things like PASSWORD or PASSWORD1 for a password!