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Ah, yes, so many new scratchers dread this.






Luckily know 99% percent of the cases are actually myths. It very rarely actually happens

Oh boy - once again, rumors of Kaj have existed on Scratch for almost 2 years. There's no way to prove what happened in the two cases you listed. Anyone who can guess a password could've done it, or even the people who were "hacked" themselves.

Remember that the only type of "hacking" that happens here is password guessing (you'd have to be pretty stupid to use illegal hacking software on MIT servers). The only precaution you need to take is making sure you have a hard-to-guess password, and you're set.

Last edited by hmnwilson (2011-02-06 19:00:18)

Hacking has only happened very rarely. Due to this slim number, the average scratchers' chance of being hacked is about 1: 35,509 !! (I did the math). So no need to panick.

And Spritemaster had all of his projects and everything restored. i don't know about the others, but I haven't checked.

Last edited by OldWheezerGeezer (2011-02-06 19:21:36)

jimjersyplus wrote:

I most recently got more information, since this KAJ or hacker thing is getting out of hand, over 25 people have tried to get some fame by saying " I AM KAJ AND YOU ARE NEXT ON MY LIST!" or naming their account THE RETURN OF KAJ, Just like people did with swifty2, they named their account SWIFTY1 or SWIFTY3 or SWIFTY2's OTHER ACCOUNT''.  I'm not even sure if KAJ is the hacker. All I know is people have been hacked recently.over 23 people have been hacked this month so let's hope things get better soon.

I'd be most interested to see where you got this information.  There have been a few people claiming to be Kaj to try and scare people but it hasn't been anything like 25.  And certainly there haven't been anything like 23 cases of unauthorized account access.

Please don't spread rumors like that.  Yes, we had an unfortunate case of unauthorized account use.  And that has triggered a lot of concern among some users.  But it's no where near as big a thing as you make it sound. 

As has been said many times before, just make sure your password is hard to guess and also make sure that you don't tell it to anybody and you should be fine 

jimjersyplus wrote:

I am sorry, I did not mean to frame anyone, I just wanted to to help the you and the rest of the scratch team and I did not mean to spread any rumours.

The best way to help the Scratch Team is to contact the Scratch Team directly about any info you have and where you learned about it. Please do not spread any more unfounded rumors.