Logging into someone else's account?

Discussion in 'Neopets Chit-Chat' started by NightWolf, Feb 25, 2010.

  1. NightWolf

    NightWolf Level II

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    So today when I went to log on to one of my accounts, after putting in my password I ended up in an account that wasn't mine. I went to the lookup & inventory of that account(there was basically nothing, looked like a shell), but when I went to the preferences page, I was suddenly logged back in as me. When I went back to to see if I could access anything else in the account, I was unable to.

    Any ideas on what happened? o_O
     
  2. Richy

    Richy Level IV

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    This happens to me on proxies quite often
    I don't know how neo sees it, but they've never said anything against me, so I think it's fine
    You can't do any actual actions, but you can see some of the pages most often visited by that user on that proxy

    It's fun to poke around, imo ^^
     
  3. NightWolf

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    Yea, I heard that could often happen with proxies, but the thing is was I wasn't using one...
     
  4. Lightning

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    Is it cache fail? Try clearing your cache and cookies...
     
  5. NightWolf

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    Well I cleared them & whenever I log into any accounts now it seems to be okay. I was using a proxy about a half hour earlier, but I don't think it would have anything to do with it...
     
  6. Rix

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    Like Lightning said it sounds like you're running into some cached pages..
    Not sure if clearing your own cache would solve the problem, seems like the page would be cached on the proxy side...right?
     
  7. Fayne

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    I had that problem a few times...usually when I log out and log straight back in into another account... ;P
    It's probably a similar case.
    I doubt Neo picks up on this and even if they do, it's a common thing...I think, since it happened on legit accounts... XD
     
  8. hszmv

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    This is also an old problem. I remember it happening on the Library computers when I played 10 years ago. Always got a good account too, just to rub it in my face.
     
  9. Kit

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    haha same here! it only shows the pages that were previously visted though I think!
     
  10. xoffcolor

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    I remember when that would happen a long time ago at school and at the library. I even remember when people would accidentally leave themselves logged on in school or the library and people were too young to know how to steal from accounts. When 2k was a large amount of neopoints. hahah. The good old days of meerca chase I.
     
  11. 3dee

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    Yup, happened to me too, although it was only for one page, it was pretty neat seeing me logged into another account
     
  12. singapore

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    lol..yeah i experienced this before too..i hacked an account which had a golden gelert when the other guy left without logging off his account (i was in a lan shop btw)..i changed the email and asked for password recovery and the password was the username minus the last letter "s" from the username


    never experienced logging into my account and yet i am able to see another account..
     
  13. chauftws

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    You can end up on someone else's account by logging on via proxy? I haven't experienced this yet but that would be pretty awesome lol, and I would probably poke around to see what is what xD
     
  14. singapore

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    yeah, most prob u can't get anth off the account but going around seeing what they have is a possibility i guess:)..i would probably do that too..