Post#22 » Sun Aug 23, 2026 7:15 am
I started this investigation as a normal account takeover investigation and restored the deleted characters. My initial case rested on an IP overlap on the primary account HIMITORI and the same IP used during the takeover and deletions. Looking specifically at the IP's history, what I had thought was a history of the IP being used 5 times historically, was in fact re-connects rather than historical log ins.
From what I can still say, HIMITORI's account was taken over by an unknown VPN IP. Their gold was funneled from the taken over account to a second, newly created TOMPEARL account. This second TOMPEARL account then stole the Himitori character name from the deleted HIMITORI account (initially read as a way to reserve their name during this).
This second TOMPEARL account traded the gold to the MMOPROVIDER3 account that was then used for the RMT framing of Blacky.
In light of the IP confusion, and the only remaining evidence being that HIMITORI voluntarily renamed their character to what happened to be a virtually identical name to one of the account usernames that was used to drain their account, we have reversed the ban and given 200 octotokens to HIMTORI as compensation.
From my perspective HIMITORI likely had their account taken over by someone who knew them well enough to basically predict what name they would use.
Sincerely,
Kestrel
Your Temporary Part Time Community Manager - Full Time Developer