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Fansite announces their account database was compromised.. told you so
Deathenger
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in Guild Wars 2
Taken from GW2 Wiki latest state of the game
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Game_status_updates (sorry forgot to add source)
"Today a Guild Wars related fan site announced that its account database has been breached. That's important but just one of many apparent breaches of other games and web sites that hackers have been collecting email addresses and passwords from. Protect yourself by using a unique password for each game and web site account you care about, and especially be sure to use a unique password for your Guild Wars 2 account."
Like I've said over and over again..... I'm curious what site is was.
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I called it out too and said it is too quick to put all blame on the players. I really feel like posting that old topic here aagain and show the rude comments by the usual suspects (GW2 fanatics) calling people who got hacked idiots, stupid and what not.
The folks who got hacked are "idiots, stupid and whatnot" because they used the same username and password on the fansite and in their GW2 account. Once again, and always into the future - it's the USERS FAULT.
Thanks for making an appearance on your own.
It's the users fault. It's not the fansites fault lol, and certainly not the account thieves fault. It's the user's fault.
People are so awesome. Instead of having standards for a better world, they rationalize the one we have.
I too think we should know what site it was. I think we have THE RIGHT TO KNOW! Not that I am signed up with any sites aside from this one plus my log in info and pw differs from my GW2 one. If one fansite goes under so be it but we have the right to know who is not protected. I bet the people who run the site didn't even say anything to all the people who are signed up to the compromised site. If I used a site that was compromised I would want to know so I could take preventative measures and also leave that fansite.
Lets go Arenanet get the Iphone and Android App authenticators out already! Other games have them. Just do not do it like SWTOR did and mess it up lol
Have a link to this info?
Philosophy of MMO Game Design
It really isn't so much the problem of the email itself. It is the fact that they use the same password for everything. That is how they are getting hacked. Basically if you have a universal password you're most likely going to get hacked if they hack into a database and get your email/pw. Every game I play has a different PW than my email and a diff PW for every game.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Game_status_updates
Google is your friend
SO wait it's the user at fault for not using some common sense, but yet studios are innocent who don't use some as well? There are plenty of systems available in this day and age that monitor the origin of a log-in, as well as the hardware that said service is being pinged from.
For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson
Wow, they knew your character names too? (Isn't that one of the security features of GW1)
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Game_status_updates
Yes, unless they disabled that for now.
Huh. Guess I didn't search hard enough, cuz I didn't see it yet.
https://lastpass.com/
For anyone interested. Slap a smartphone authenticator app of your choice to the program version you choose (I have it only as a Chrome extension) and voilà. Easily manage unique passwords for all your 100+ websites.
I'm guessing it doesn't help you remember passwords for your MMO account because you changed it into something too hard to remember and now you have to wait for your ticket to be responded to after the labor day weekend huh?
That isn't true. We were hacked and they were different passwords. All of our passwords are KEYPASS generated so they are effective passwords and different for each account. The password was changed by customer service without any other form of authentication other that they knew the email address of the account. This isn't the only case of it happening like this. Spend five minutes reading the posts on twitter and facebook and you can see. You can blame the "user", but Arena Net should have had more failsafes in place. It isn't like they didn't know that accounts were going to be targetted. To say otherwise is just ignorant...but then again....
Ouch. Hope you get it sorted out!
/boggle Don't you keep a sticky notepad and pen handy to write down new passwords just incase you make it hard? LOL. Lesson learned huh!