Comments on: Happy Fun Security Issues

By: Ravious

Ravious — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:27:59 +0000

Sorry to hear that Beldeti. I am glad they weren’t wholly malicious (which deleting characters is). Luckily, there are only a few super valuable things, which can gain some permanency in the HoM anyway. Hopefull you have a speedy recovery. :)

By: beldeti

beldeti — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:22:17 +0000

I’m one of the many Guild Wars players whose have been hacked. And no, I don’t have Aion.

Luckily all characters were left intact, and what I lost I could just get back by playing normally.

Password’s been changed in-game, not via my NCSoft Master Account. Hope my luck holds this time, and that appropriate security measures are established. It was painful getting hacked the first time around.

@ag: a game-wide wipe would hurt those accounts not hacked too. Also, there’s character-based and account-based Guild Wars titles that require considerable investments in time, effort and grind in varying degrees. People have been working for these titles in preparation for a carryover to Guild Wars 2. Nobody would relish the thought of starting all over again.

By: ag

ag — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 22:58:06 +0000

with such rampant hacks, the only just solution
is to completely wipe all accounts after patching
and let everyone start from 0.
no one deserves to benefit from what theyve stolen.
and there is actually hundreds of thousands of USD
involved.

By: Blue Kae

Blue Kae — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 22:47:21 +0000

Not sure what’s going on with NCSoft and ArenaNet. When did they start this whole character name to login stuff? I was going to jump on for a quick look around, but it has been six months or more since I was one last and I have no idea what my character names were. We’ll see how support does at getting back to me.

By: Ravious

Ravious — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 02:19:43 +0000

It doesn’t matter if you use the NCSoft account. What matters for Guild Wars, allegedly, was whether you linked it or not. Once linked anybody that could access your NCSoft account could on a die roll obtain access to your account. Because your Guild Wars account was linked they could read your account name and change your password to a new password from the NCSoft account. For Guild Wars security, I believe that, for the most part, this has been fixed or gone in the right direction because now the accesor has to have your old password.

By: heartlessgamer

heartlessgamer — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 19:01:11 +0000

I don’t buy it. The account system in question require manual, repeated password entry to access/change account details. One accidental login gets no where near the devastation that players are reporting.

Or I am completely wrong about the details, since I no longer use my NCSoft account.

By: Longasc

Longasc — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 10:35:54 +0000

I did not manage yet to get into another account at random. But I recall that during Aion release I suddenly had “wrong” and “missing” games after logging into my account. I relogged and the problem was solved. Now I fear it simply was not my account… :/

Scary is that even a new and very complicated password is not going to safe one from the security holes. You can become a random victim at the moment and this is scary as hell.

P.S.: Three of my friends got hacked. We assumed for two social engineering and carelessness. This can explain the third hack.