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house deletion exploit EXPLOITS house ownership validation flaw
The house-deletion exploit worked because the server did not properly verify that the sender owned the targeted house.
Derived Confidence 98% · Manfred EP 8 Details
“the server doesn’t check if you’re the owner of this house when you send the delete packet”
Manfred EXPLOITS Integer overflow
Manfred used integer-overflow behavior to obtain extreme character attributes and duplicate item quantities.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 8 Details
“This resulted in him getting two billion potions.”
Manfred EXPLOITS Integer overflow
Manfred exploited integer-overflow bugs in multiple online games, including Anarchy Online and Final Fantasy titles.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 8 Details
“He found an integer overflow bug”
“He found numerous integer overflow exploits in this game”
Ultima Online house deletion fiasco INVOLVES house deletion exploit
The Ultima Online house-deletion fiasco involved the exploit used to delete large numbers of houses.
Derived Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 8 Details
“created a new character. He ran around the game deleting every house he could find”
Ultima Online house deletion fiasco INVOLVES Ultima Online
The house-deletion fiasco occurred in Ultima Online.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Manfred EP 8 Details
“Shortly after the Ultima Online house deletion fiasco”
Lineage server hacking campaign TARGETS Lineage II
The Lineage server hacking campaign targeted Lineage video game servers.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 8 Details
“were caught hacking into the Lineage video game servers”
Manfred USES hex editor
Manfred inspected Sim City save files with a hex editor and changed values to alter the game.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 8 Details
“I decided to load the file into a hex editor.”
Manfred USES online-game client reverse engineering
Manfred reverse-engineered the Ultima Online client.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 8 Details
“he started tinkering and reverse-engineering the client”
Manfred USES Dark Age of Camelot
Manfred used a duplication bug in Dark Age of Camelot to duplicate characters, items, and gold.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Manfred EP 8 Details
“I’d cause myself to log in again without logging out the previous character”
Manfred USES instance-crash duplication exploit
Manfred used an instance-crash exploit to duplicate items and gold in Asheron’s Call 2.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 8 Details
“when they’d both log back in they’d both have the exact same items”
Manfred USES character duplication exploit
Manfred used the duplication exploit to create duplicated inventory and sell virtual goods.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Manfred EP 8 Details
“started selling Dark Age of Camelot platinum and items on eBay”
Manfred modified Sim City save-game data, including the in-game money amount.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 8 Details
“I had given myself 100 billion in game dollars.”
Manfred USES vendor item-ID manipulation
Manfred used vendor item-ID manipulation to buy or sell items at altered prices.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 8 Details
“he could change the item ID the vendor was selling and buy any item he wanted for any price he wanted”
Manfred USES house deletion exploit
Manfred used the house-deletion exploit to delete other players’ houses.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Manfred EP 8 Details
“I started deleting players’ homes of rival guilds”
Manfred used eBay to sell Ultima Online houses and Dark Age of Camelot virtual goods.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Manfred EP 8 Details
“That’s when eBay came into play.”
After eBay banned virtual-goods sales, Manfred sold directly to the Chinese supplier ige.com.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Manfred EP 8 Details
“I started selling directly to a Chinese supplier back then. It was ige.com.”
Manfred USES auction-bid arithmetic overflow
Manfred used an auction-house bid arithmetic overflow to generate in-game platinum in WildStar Online.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Manfred EP 8 Details
“you’d create a maximum signed 64-bit integer bid”
Manfred USES packet manipulation
Manfred manipulated Ultima Online packets while investigating game behavior.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 8 Details
“and manipulating the packets”
Manfred USES in-app purchases
Manfred characterized his virtual-goods business as providing in-app purchases before that model became common.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 8 Details
“providing players with in-app purchases before in-app purchases were a thing”
Unspendable Bitcoin address bug AFFECTS Bitcoin
A programming error caused withdrawals to be sent to unspendable Bitcoin addresses, effectively destroying the coins.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Kim Nilsson EP 9 Details
“That meant that a number of withdrawals actually sent Bitcoins to unspendable addresses, which is the same as destroying Bitcoins.”
Mt. Gox ASSOCIATED_WITH CoinLab
Mt. Gox agreed to use CoinLab to handle North American transactions, but the arrangement later resulted in a breach-of-contract lawsuit.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 9 Details
“Mt. Gox wanted to expand into the US so it agreed to use a company called CoinLab to handle all North American transactions.”
Bitcoin ASSOCIATED_WITH Blockchain
Jack explains that the blockchain is the public record storing all Bitcoin transactions.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 9 Details
“The blockchain is the public record that stores all Bitcoin transactions.”
Alex Vinnik ASSOCIATED_WITH Mt. Gox
Evidence showed Alex Vinnik had some Bitcoins stolen from Mt. Gox, but Jack explicitly cautions that this does not establish that Vinnik stole them; he was accused of laundering them.
Uncertain Confidence 97% · Jack Rhysider EP 9 Details
“evidence shows that he had some of the Bitcoins that were stolen from Mt. Gox. However, just because he had them doesn’t mean he stole them.”
Mt. Gox hot-wallet theft COMPROMISES Mt. Gox hot wallet
Someone with access to the system stole Mt. Gox's hot-wallet file and then moved the Bitcoin to another wallet.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Kim Nilsson EP 9 Details
“The hot wallet, wallet.dat got stolen by someone with access to the system.”
Mt. Gox DEVELOPED_BY Jed McCaleb
Jed McCaleb reused the mtgox.com domain to start Mt. Gox and personally created the site from scratch.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 9 Details
“Jed McCaleb took an interest in Bitcoin and he had an old domain lying around called mtgox.com”
“He was a web developer and personally created the site from scratch.”