--------------------------------------------------------------------------- =========================================================================== Uplink: Hacker Elite Bank Hacking Guide --------------------------------------------------------------------------- =========================================================================== Created by (]=-The@N-=[) Arno Middelkoop =========================================================================== --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------=-=-=----------- 0.0 Version -----------=-=-=----------- Version 1.00: - The submitted "Bank Hacking" Guide 09-19-2004 Version 1.10: - Added one hint at the "BANK'S ADMIN" Section. 09-20-2004 - I forgot to put the InterNIC question in the FAQ's, while promised in the 4.0 section. Version 1.30: - Major breakthrough: you can hack a complete bank at once! 10-09-2004 See 5.4, I added a few FAQ's about it too, see 6.0. - And as I see now, the date of the 1.1 version has been COMPLETELY WRONG. Changed that too. ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ -----------=-=-=----------- 1.1 Introduction -----------=-=-=----------- Hi there folks, this is a FAQ of (]=-The@N-=[), known as TheaN on Gamefaqs messageboards. My real name is Arno Middelkoop and i'm from the Netherlands. Well, that for the my introduction, on to the subject of this FAQ: =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 1.2 Subject Introduction =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Uplink: Hacker Elite, an excellent and only game of Introversion. You live your life as Hacker in 2010, where the whole world is based on computers. This FAQ is about bank hacking. Anyone familliar to the game knows that you need money to buy equipment. In this guide I will give step by step how to infiltrate bankaccounts with much money and transfer it to your account without being caught. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 1.4 Copyright =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= This FAQ is made for personal usage only. You can not use it for what magazine, site, paper or whatsoever. You can't copy and paste pieces from this Walkthrough/FAQ for own usage. This is plagiarism. You can not use this Walkthrough/FAQ as an example to make your own. You must do everything there is to do in the game yourself or have others give information about your game in order to make a Walkthrough/FAQ. You are allowed to copy the layout though. You can put this Walkthrough/FAQ on your non-commercial or non-profit web site provided that not a single character has been edited or removed, you MUST have permission from me in order to do so. ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ -----------=-=-=----------- 2.0 Table of Contents -----------=-=-=----------- ======================================================================== Current Version 0.0 ======================================================================== Introduction 1.0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ My introduction 1.1 Subject Introduction 1.2 Copyright 1.3 ======================================================================== Table of Contents 2.0 ======================================================================== Requirements 3.0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Critical 3.1 Optional 3.2 ======================================================================== Pre-Hacking 4.0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Getting high account 4.1 "High Transfer" mission 4.1.1 Hacking the bank's admin account 4.1.2 Create your own account 4.2 Safe user/Create connection 4.3 ======================================================================== Transfer Money 5.0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Internal and External Tracing 5.1 Transfer + Delete statements + Delete routed log 5.2 Getting caught or not 5.3 Hacking complete bank at once 5.4 ======================================================================== FAQ's 6.0 ======================================================================== Credits 7.0 ======================================================================== ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ -----------=-=-=----------- 3.0 Requirements -----------=-=-=----------- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 3.1 Critical Requirements =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Name Version Money ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Connection HUD Analysis = N/A $20000 Monitor Bypass = 5.0 $25000 Proxy Bypass = 5.0 $20000 Password Breaker = N/A $ 1500 Log Deleter = 4.0 $ 4000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Total = N/A $70500 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 3.2 Optional Requirements =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= You need these if you're planning to hack the bank's admin, instead of using the Transfer Mission. Name Version Money ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Decypher 3.0 $ 8000 Voice Analyser N/A $ 5000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Total = N/A $13000 ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ -----------=-=-=----------- 4.0 Pre-Hacking -----------=-=-=----------- VERY IMPORTANT NOTE: From this point you will be confronted with long connection or single connections. - Single connection: I mentioned nothing about the connection, you can connect directly from your IP to the target, no log deletion. - Long connection: This is from your account to InterNIC, through another 20 locations and finally towards the target. After the required hacking has been done, delete your Logs at InterNIC, check the FAQ's (6.0) why this is InterNIC. I will write a long connection as: BUALC: "by using a long connection" =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 4.1 Getting high account =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= First you need to have an account which is worth the money. For this you've two options: - A mission called: "We need an experienced hacker to trace a high balance transfer". - Or hacking the bank's admin and check all the accounts on that bank. 4.1.1: TRANSFER MISSION This is IMO the easiest way to get an account with much money, because you only have to hack password security. Go to the mission list and accept this kind of mission. Now: 1. Go to the account's bank listed in the mission, BUALC. 2. Use Monitor Bypass. 3. Now go to "Manage existing account", type the account number, hack the password. 4. Look at "Statement", from the last transfer, mail the IP and accountnr to yourself. 5. Delete Logs at InterNIC. 6. Go to the IP bank, BUALC (either use IP Lookup or just go past every bank, 8 in total). 7. Do the second and third step again, but now for this bank and account. 8. If you want, complete the mission by sending the name. 9. Accountnr. and password will still be active at target bank. 10.Delete Logs again. 4.1.2: THE BANK'S ADMIN A more difficult way, which could result in mutiple high money accounts, or NONE! 1. Go to the public access server of the target bank, put the telephone no. of the Administrator in your links. 2. Call him, use Voice Analyser. 3. Go to the target bank, BUALC. 4. Go to admin, monitor bypass. 5. Break password, use voice and decypher the code. 6. Put in a mail every accountnr. and password, send it. 7. Delete Logs at InterNIC. 8. Return to the bank, not BUALC. 9. Use every account, check their balance. 200000 or above will be enough. 10.Mail the accountnr. and password again. If there aren't any high accounts, that's too bad. 11.One note here though, you should check their statements too. When they transfered a high amount, use that account and IP given. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 4.2 Create your own account =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Go to the target bank, create your own. This makes the process a lot easier. Now the last mail: - Accountnr. - Bank IP - Amount (either use all, or the amount stated in the "Transfer mission" to make it easier) ------------------------------------ Used THE BANK'S ADMIN, also put: ------------------------------------ - Target accountnr. - Target password. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 4.3 Save user/Create connection =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Backup your save: - Outside the game, go to user, your name. - Copy ALL 3 files to another directory, your name, options and debug file. - Restart game. Create BUALC connection to the target bank, save it. ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ -----------=-=-=----------- 5.0 Transfer Money -----------=-=-=----------- Now for the real job. Chances that you're getting caught are high even if you're fast. To prepare enough, read every step before doing the transfer. This can be done one by one: - Load the connection. - Go to the target account. - Go to "Transfer" - Put in all that's needed (target bank IP, your accountnr and amount). - Bypass Proxy and Monitor. - Open the Log Deleter at most speed. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 5.1 Internal and External Tracing =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= You might want to ask yourself, why do I have to be so fast? Well that's like this: - Because of the Monitor Bypass, you don't have an Internal Trace. This is the one with the Trace Tracker. - However, once you transfer, an External Trace will be started towards your account. The game will go from system to system inside your Long Connection, from Log to Log, until they find your account. The feds are send, and you're down. That's the whole point behind it. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 5.2 Transfer + Delete statements + Delete Logs =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= You'll be caught within a minute! Does this mean you've a minute? No, you've around 20 - 30 seconds to delete the statements and logs, because the game found you within a minute, but the feds need to arrive :D. The exact hacking: - Transfer the money, press OK. If it failed will be clear once you want to delete your statement, you haven't any yet. - Go to the statements, delete the most upper statement. - Go to your account, delete the statement. - Go to InterNIC, use password, open log deleter, delete the routed log. - Disconnect. Now use the "per minute time", the second in the menu above in your screen. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 5.3 Getting caught or not =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= This is a simple notification. If your screen goes black, you failed. You'll be notified that you're account has been seized and you can't continue. Copy your save. But, if you receive message, this will be from Uplink, you raised about 6 Uplink levels! Congratulations, you hacked without fail. What is most important for your caught: the statements. That gets us to the next and last point. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 5.4 Hacking complete bank at once =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Huh??? That isn't possible! Yes, it is. For this you can best use the BANK'S ADMIN trick. Get all accounts from a bank (mail them, password and account), create one of your own and connect BUALC to the bank and bypass systems. Now: - Connect to first account. - Look how much money, go to Transfer and fill it all in. - Transfer, delete both statements. - Connect to second account.... - So on.... - Transfer and delete statements from last account. - Go to InterNIC and delete the single routed log. If not yet, this will get you to either Techno-Mage or TERMINAL. ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ -----------=-=-=----------- 6.0 FAQ's -----------=-=-=----------- Q: I'm getting caught every time. A: The most known FAQ about this. You're just not fast enough, or doing a step wrong. Both happen frequently, that is. By reading 5.3 and 5.4 you can see that the most dangerous "logs" are the statements. Transfer, go immediatly to statements and delete, do so at your account and if you're only hacking one account, delete routed log at InterNIC. Q: Why should I use InterNIC? I always use the Uplink Test Machine. A: Three reasons for and one against it: - InterNIC doesn't need the "admin" to be writtten in the Admin section. - The password is always the same with your user. But, when logged in on another user it will be different. - You're not traced internal AND external, so you can make a direct connection. If you really want to use the Test Machine, this is why: - No matter what user, the password is always "Rosebud" Q: What should I do with the money? A: Buy yourself all equipment (best gateway etc.) and bying all software (except for the disablers, you already have bypass). Q: My game has no accounts with much money, I checked every bank. What shoud I do? A: Too bad then, you can't do anything about it. You can still use the hacking trick to gain experience, but no money. Not much that is. Q: When I'm hacking all accounts on a bank, I just caught in the middle of transferring. How is it possible? A: This means you deleted one of your previous statements too late. No matter what you did (deleted routed log, etc.), you would always be caught. Q: I hacked all accounts by using the "Hacking complete bank at once" trick. Will they return with money on it? A: I cannot verify this completely. After going fast forward for at least a Month, only the Uplink Fees where payed. Most accounts I hacked gave -300, :D LOL. One another obvious thing, all of the transfers occured, BEFORE you started your game. I don't think they return, maybe for the "Transfer Mission", but I doubt it. Q: Can I use Disable instead of Bypass? A: Of course it's possible. But, the chances are even more lower if you do that. Chances of succeeding will be too low. This because of two things: - You'll be traced inside the bank before Transfering. _ The External trace will begin faster. Q: Isn't this cheating? A: Not to me. It's a in-game based trick, which can be used to complete the game easier. If you don't want to use it and play the storyline without it, that's up to you. But then you shouldn't be reading this Guide. Q: After a fail, how do I restore a save? A: Copy the three files back to the users file and overwrite. Q: Did you fail many times? A: Yeah, and I still do. It just calls speed and good reflexes. Chances of failing are the best they should be. High, but it's possible to succeed a hacking attempt. ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ -----------=-=-=----------- 7.0 Credits -----------=-=-=----------- - I thank Introversion for creating the game, and publishing it in Europe. - I thank GameFAQs for posting. If there are any questions, improvements, additional info or info I forgot, get in this list my mailing me at: arnomiddelkoop_1@hotmail.com Yours truly, Arno "TheaN" Middelkoop