Yesterday after being more then 4 years on QuakeNet. I was kicked down by some Q account hacker. The person who did this was able to find a weak spot in my Windows XP pro and attacked me on the following way. First A DDoS to slowdown my connection and computer. With that in his advance he changed my password rapidly and email adress. After that he toke all the +n's away at my Q chans and banned everybody out of the channel.
Lucky for me I have some Qnet Oppers and Server Administrators as a friend so they easly restored my Q account and gave me my rights back at #Jj2 / #[GpW] and so on.

But this isn't just QuakeNet only, other IRC's where you have ChanServ or X bot can have the same problem with the same sort of people that only wants to do damage on your Channel.

I want to warn EVERYBODY that it could happen to anyone on any time. There for i''ve made now a small column at ClanBase to protect your self a bit better. It's never 100% safe but improves alot to prevent this from happening. I've copied and pasted the value document to J2O aswell now. But I have to say it's still very ClanBase related but you prolly will get the point after reading it.

Anyhow press this clicky to read the column