Few questions as a new player

[Bynming 2]

A friend and I have been playing this game and we've been having a generally good time despite the very alpha-esque feeling of the alpha. The bugs and whatnot are fine and good, but I've been killed a few times in very curious ways and I've been wondering if there already are hackers in this game? From reading around, it seems like they're present, which has me "scared" of playing the game considering that hours of scavenging goes away in seconds, and to make it worse, the person who causes it now has hours worth of my stuff for free! Now I don't mind it so much when I get murdered by people who are at least playing the game 

 

Anyway, I ask this because I was just getting home from work and I was excited to play some DayZ, I decided to join an empty server to get back into it before joining a server with some people in it and 30 seconds in, even though I wasn't in a particularly interesting area, I was getting shot at.

 

So I'm basically wondering, perhaps someone else logged in and through some incredible luck happened to be where I was - or maybe it's possible to join a server and "teleport" near somebody and kill them. Maybe that's stupid but I'm just trying to figure it out because this has happened twice. Cheers and hopefully Dayz lives up to its potential :)

[DropBearChick 1217]

I'd say it was just plain bad luck but I have run across a hacker once, though he was friendly, he is now banned and they just added battle eye so very few hackers around, if u need any help click the link in my signature

[Bynming 2]

Thanks for that, good writeup.

[MysticL 71]

Try to play stealthy and all must be fine! About your situation I can say looks like a bad luck, but if you are truly was alone on the server and someone joined and kill you twice it's about 99.9% he is a hacker and i hope he got his global ban