jrtman wrote:
Don't worry you'll be safe. There was no "hacking" of the Neopets site, just a few shops and userlookups were embedded with a "cookie grabber".
People know the difference between a hacker and someone who puts cookie grabbers on a site. I don't think you need to point out there is no "hacking" more than once really.
Suffice to say when people are losing accounts through no fault of their own they can usually call what happened whatever they like. Someone placing cookie grabbers on the neopets site, a trusted site, is as close to hacking as people are going to get. Considering hacking never meant what it can do now originally I don't see any reason for people (and this happens every time someone mistakenly uses the word hacker to do with a neo problem) to jump out and tell us all over and over again what is and isn't a hacker. We know it isn't a hacker, that doesn't mean people can't use the word hacker to describe it - it's a heck of a lot shorter than "person who has placed cookie grabbers on their userlookup/shop". And if you point it out everytime someone says the word you're gonna be repeating yourself an awful lot!
People get enough grief about word use on the neoboards if they are unaware it's a bad idea to post there about losing accounts, generally people here know the score.
All the info you need about what is safe and what isn't is on the thread ScottNak posted, some people just prefer to be on the safe side and stay away from the site. After all there are other things to be doing!
Back to the plot - where nothing is still happening. Patience dudes