Security hole?

I've heard that terraforming will make objects go off world and be returned and I have heard it from multiple sources. It doesn't seem to happen in all cases but I am convinced it happens in some cases. How much did you make the land rise above the object?

This all sounds very odd. I would have assumed a terraforming attack as well, since many people check the public terraforming box to allow their friends to make changes, not knowing that deeding the land and controlling terraforming through group roles is really the way to go. However the posters here say public landshaping was disabled.

Anyway, if you haven't already, do the following:
- Report all avatars with Help > Abuse Report.
- Lock down your island for a while (estate-level access list or parcel access list) and see if anyone else is able to infiltrate. A stand-alone island with an access list should not be accessible to anyone who isn't an estate manager or island group member.
- Request that the actual island owner requests an island roll-back. The sooner you make the request the better. You also need to report the time and day when the attack occurred so LL knows which back-up copy to restore. They only keep a few days' worth of roll-backs.

[...] so we dont need a roll back besides that wouldnt rebuild our cabin or untanlge all the returned objects [...]

Did the security orb log their names?

It sounds as if they had found some way to get Linden god powers for the land.

When Lindens are in that mode, normal scanning does not detect them.
I once had 3 lindens on my land and they were invisible to my visitor scanner.

We have managed to terraform the sim back to similar to what it was already so we dont need a roll back besides that wouldnt rebuild our cabin or untanlge all the returned objects .... its a mess in our inventories (

You might be confusing "rollback" with "revert." A roll-back restores a sim's entire state, including terraforming, terrain textures, objects, and even script state. LL doesn't like to do it very often because it can be exploited to make unauthorized copies of no-copy items, if you know what you're doing.

Anyway, sounds like you're pretty far along in your rebuilding.

When the objects were returned, what was the text of the message?


If returned by a person it would be in the form:
Your object '(object_name)' has been returned to your inventory lost and found folder by (avatar_name) from parcel '(parcel_name)' at (region_name_and_coordinates) due to parcel owner return.

If returned by a parcel setting it would be of the form:
Your object '(object_name)' has been returned to your inventory lost and found folder from parcel (parcel_name)' at (region_name_and_coordinates) due to parcel auto return.

My friend who I mentioned earlier in the thread, her message said that her object xxxx had been returned to her inventory lost and found folder because it went offworld. Then, we found out 'why' it went offworld, because of the giant terraforming she'd inadvertently done.

We didnt inadvertently terraform , these people invaded our island and harrassed and made fun of us , even if they hadnt buried our sim the fact that we couldnt eject , freeze , ban or get rid of them in any way was extremely upsetting , let alone the fact that they helped themselves to permissions

If I were the sim owner, paying LL a significant amount of money every month for the sim, I would expect a rollback without having to persuade them in any way. I would also expect them to examine the item mentioned above to see if it is capable of doing things like this, and I wouldn't take no for an answer on either count.

Yes it will - it'll put all the objects back as they were at the time of the rollback, and you'll have extra copies of it all in your inv.

We pay tier to RGF , it's a homestead not a full sim

I'd love to be able to afford an island of my own but its just too expensive

I do pay premium , but that doesnt seem to make a difference with LL , everytime i try and talk to Live support i get told to submit a ticket and that takes weeks , i dont imagine it will be any different with this either

What I will say is this is very serious and should be regarded as such with LL since people now can create things that reads your IP address, account info, invites you into groups you cannot access without permission to, terraform lands with no permissions, and even return anyone's objects. This is very real and LL is taking too long with a resolution to those who were victims of this disaster.

If I were the sim owner, paying LL a significant amount of money every month for the sim, I would expect a rollback without having to persuade them in any way. I would also expect them to examine the item mentioned above to see if it is capable of doing things like this, and I wouldn't take no for an answer on either count.

Here's a thought:

If these people had obtained general group powers or even godlike powers, why didn't they freeze, eject, ban people? It would seem like an obvious griefy thing to do.

I just ran a test with group co-owner on group-deeded land.
We could eject each other from the land, despite being group owners with full powers. We could freeze and ban.
Being the group founder was not a protection either.

It's possible that whatever the exploit was, it didn't involve power over anything but terrain and (some) objects.