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Originally Posted by Chrisworld
What they mean is if you havent changed your GW password in a long time, change it.
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"Please reset your password today!"
BrettM
Konker2020
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Originally Posted by Jensy
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The biggest mistake that most people make is that they assume hackers are incompetent or assume that they are just stupid, which sorry to say, if you do, you are the one who is just plain stupid.
Gift3d
this is so funny what people are having conniptions and wracking themselves stupid over, but in all 3,201,928 other threads just like this one where i told everyone what's up in, it was just ignored like all other sensible and logical responses while the convulsions and panicking continued.
so for now, i sit back and laugh. at the retardation of the community, and the lengths anet is going to in order to curb said retardation.
so for now, i sit back and laugh. at the retardation of the community, and the lengths anet is going to in order to curb said retardation.
Konker2020
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Originally Posted by Gift3d
this is so funny what people are having conniptions and wracking themselves stupid over, but in all 3,201,928 other threads just like this one where i told everyone what's up in, it was just ignored like all other sensible and logical responses while the convulsions and panicking continued.
so for now, i sit back and laugh. at the retardation of the community, and the lengths anet is going to in order to curb said retardation. |
Arduin
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Originally Posted by Voltaic Ectoplasm
and tbh up until recently not many ppl have complained of a account hack...
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Quaker
My guess would be that it's legitimate. If someone was able to hack into ANet itself to put that warning on the login screen, I would assume that it wouldn't be there very long (it's still there) and/or ANet would shut the GW servers down for "maintenance".
The need to change your password would depend upon how unique your GW password is. If, as it says in the warning, you used the same password in other games - particularly other games that are no longer active and/or some of the free MMOs - you should get yourself a "strong" and unique password for GW which you don't use for anything else.
Still, though, you need to be aware of the usual threats from key-loggers, trojans, and hack sites.
The need to change your password would depend upon how unique your GW password is. If, as it says in the warning, you used the same password in other games - particularly other games that are no longer active and/or some of the free MMOs - you should get yourself a "strong" and unique password for GW which you don't use for anything else.
Still, though, you need to be aware of the usual threats from key-loggers, trojans, and hack sites.
jonnieboi05
It's aNet's way of grabbing your attention to stay safe. 
GODh
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Originally Posted by cosyfiep
the ONLY site that I have ever used my gw password is for the stupid xth....if someone breaks into my account I will KNOW where the breach is!
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Is the XTH website hacked?
talon994
It would be epic fail if XTH resulted in hacked accounts.
CyberOutLaw
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Originally Posted by Marvel-Kid
I don't care if there is a thread on this already up, and I don't care if I get banned from gw guru forever. my GW acc is more important..... Is this a hackers post, or is it legit???
" Please change your password today! We are seeing hackers try to log into Guild Wars accounts using passwords stolen from other games and web sites. For your security, you should never use the same or a similar password for Guild Wars that you use for any other purpose. We strongly recommend that all Guild Wars players change their passwords immediately. " I'm freaking out here!!! Answers please: |
I am a Victom of this. I Lost alot of hard work.
on Dec 13th at 1:17am, I was playing CoD4 on my main PC, when I noticed that I got an email, and I always check my MSN right away when I get a message,
Someone at 116.2.222.91 has reset your Guild Wars Game Account password for account . If you did not make this change, please contact support immediately at [email protected].
So I stopped playing and sent an email right away to support saying
"I have not requested a password change to my Guildwars account."
I got a message the next day saying that they had to send this to s diffrent Dept, then another Later on that day to further verify who I was. Wasn't till today at 4:30pm that I got a message saying,
Thank you for your patience to this point. It appears as though your NCsoft master account may have been compromised. We can help you resolve this issue and bring the account back under your control. That would allow you to manage your Guild Wars game account directly from this point forward.
Your NCsoft master account password has been reset and the automatically generated password has been sent to your e-mail address. If you do not receive this e-mail, please check any spam/junk mail folders as some e-mail services might recognize the auto-generated password e-mail as spam.
The following articles from the Knowledge Base should then assist you with resetting your NCsoft master account and Guild Wars game account passwords once you are able to log into your account again.
Title: Changing a NCsoft Password
URL: http://help.ncsoft.com/cgi-bin/ncsof...p?p_faqid=4422
Title: Changing Guild Wars Password within your NCsoft Master Account
URL: http://help.ncsoft.com/cgi-bin/ncsof...p?p_faqid=5319
Please let us know if we can be of further assistance in this matter.
Thanks,
GM Grackle
Guild Wars Account Support
It'z great that I now have my account back, BUT MY 3 YEARS OF WORK HAVE BEEN TAKEN FROM ME.
I'm hoping that they can roll back or something, I did respond back to the orrigonal emailsaying someone was changing my password. Responded right away, withing 1 minute actually. not my fault it took them almost 4 days to get this taken care of.
Bob Slydell
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Originally Posted by BrettM
Who exactly told you that "all players" doesn't really mean "all players"?
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And who exactly told you to get pissed off at me for voicing what I thought was the right idea?
1. I assumed old passwords = stale passwords, PW's that are likely to be close to fully known by hackers (by guessing each letter slowly over time) changing them would basically help throw the hacker off. This happens in any game. Or any account online. I assume ANET wanted to make it clear.. change the suckers!
2. If ANET was serious about this immediate password change, they fail because that means a security breach happened somewhere and somewhere, someone has a list (or partial list) of emails to passwords that are 100% legit.
I normally brush off #2, because if it is.. **** this game company. But I don't want to yet. I love them and GW too much and am in denial, so it's #1.
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Originally Posted by talon994
It would be epic fail if XTH resulted in hacked accounts.
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CyberOutLaw
I can understand them telling All Players to change their passwords. As it is a good idea to chage your passwords every so often for basic security. Changing your password every so often makes it harder to get into if your security is ever breached. Doesn't matter how strong your password is.
On the other Hand I am seeing alot of posts on difrent sites with people getting their accounts hacked this month. Maybe it'z time for a Backup restore to last month some time and have a manditory password change to lock things down again.
No company is completly safe from hackers, just ask the Military. If someone wants in bad enough, they will get in.
Let'z just hope that the company we trusted all these years can be trusted to do the right thing.
On the other Hand I am seeing alot of posts on difrent sites with people getting their accounts hacked this month. Maybe it'z time for a Backup restore to last month some time and have a manditory password change to lock things down again.
No company is completly safe from hackers, just ask the Military. If someone wants in bad enough, they will get in.
Let'z just hope that the company we trusted all these years can be trusted to do the right thing.
BladeWind
Exact same thing happened to my officer’s account. In his case it highly looks like a security breach at NCsoft, he only has access to the internet at my house on his laptop and he only does three things on it,check emails, play GW and WoW. We found a password reset email from NCsoft and had a "wtf" moment (we have antispyware precautions ect).
This is bad
This is bad
Skeletor Il
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Originally Posted by Silverhand
i would change it if i hadnt forgot my plaync account info
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Sagra
To be fair, when I signed up for the XTH, I specifically remember a statement about not using the same password as for logging into GW itself. Anyone who did simply didn't follow directions. Password changes are necessary to protect your investment of time in this game. If it's not worth taking a few minutes and writing down a new password until you memorize it, then it's not really that important to you.
Bob Slydell
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Originally Posted by BladeWind
Exact same thing happened to my officer’s account. In his case it highly looks like a security breach at NCsoft, he only has access to the internet at my house on his laptop and he only does three things on it,check emails, play GW and WoW. We found a password reset email from NCsoft and had a "wtf" moment (we have antispyware precautions ect).
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CyberOutLaw
This is the resonce I got back
The Guild Wars Support Team does not have the capability to replace characters or items, whether they are lost through the actions of unfriendly players, deletion accidents, or through other means.
Please let us know if you need assistance with anything else.
Regards,
GM ApplePython
The Guild Wars Support Team
So what was the reson to report the hacker/password issue right away, like th 1st email stated, if they don't do anything for 3-4 days....At the very least, password related issues should be dealt with right away, not 4 days later, at least then I may have been able to salvage some stuff.
With the amount of people I'm seeing around the net this month alone tells me their security has possibly been compremised, but they don't care, because you already paid for the game(s) upfront, so they have their money.....
Hmmmmm Guild Wars 2....should I trust my security further, or just delete my whole account now....
The Guild Wars Support Team does not have the capability to replace characters or items, whether they are lost through the actions of unfriendly players, deletion accidents, or through other means.
Please let us know if you need assistance with anything else.
Regards,
GM ApplePython
The Guild Wars Support Team
So what was the reson to report the hacker/password issue right away, like th 1st email stated, if they don't do anything for 3-4 days....At the very least, password related issues should be dealt with right away, not 4 days later, at least then I may have been able to salvage some stuff.
With the amount of people I'm seeing around the net this month alone tells me their security has possibly been compremised, but they don't care, because you already paid for the game(s) upfront, so they have their money.....
Hmmmmm Guild Wars 2....should I trust my security further, or just delete my whole account now....
midnightduo1
holy ****? why is everyone jumping into conclusions and going through slippery slopes?
It may be very possible that big guilds in GW would have a forum in which members register in it, and members carelessly used their gw email accounts and passwords to register, and thus, get hacked.
dont suddenly come to conclusions such as "XTH IS HACKED OMFG!"
then having overreactions such as: "OMG I HAVE TO DELETE MY ACCOUNT!" "I CANT TRUST GW ANYMORE! T.T!!!" "I WONDER IF WE CAN TRUST GW2!!"
for now, it doesnt seem to do any harm in changing your password.
It may be very possible that big guilds in GW would have a forum in which members register in it, and members carelessly used their gw email accounts and passwords to register, and thus, get hacked.
dont suddenly come to conclusions such as "XTH IS HACKED OMFG!"
then having overreactions such as: "OMG I HAVE TO DELETE MY ACCOUNT!" "I CANT TRUST GW ANYMORE! T.T!!!" "I WONDER IF WE CAN TRUST GW2!!"
for now, it doesnt seem to do any harm in changing your password.
Konker2020
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Originally Posted by midnightduo1
holy ****? why is everyone jumping into conclusions and going through slippery slopes?
It may be very possible that big guilds in GW would have a forum in which members register in it, and members carelessly used their gw email accounts and passwords to register, and thus, get hacked. dont suddenly come to conclusions such as "XTH IS HACKED OMFG!" then having overreactions such as: "OMG I HAVE TO DELETE MY ACCOUNT!" "I CANT TRUST GW ANYMORE! T.T!!!" "I WONDER IF WE CAN TRUST GW2!!" for now, it doesnt seem to do any harm in changing your password. |
Sjeng
Well, my passwords already were pretty safe, and not used anywhere else, including the XTH. But I went ahead and changed them all anyway, no harm in that.
Apparently, Anet has had some major security issues, and I'd like to know why exactly the red message is there. WTH happened Anet???
Strangely enough though, I tried to do the same for my GF's account, logged into PlayNC (also with a unique password), and was surprised to see her game account suddenly WAS NOT linked to PlayNC anymore!?!? WTH!?!? I KNOW we linked it, because I had all the info written down. So I changed her password the old fashion way in the game itself (which is ever so easy). Still, how come her account suddenly got un-linked from PlayNC??? And how to link it back again???
I'd love some answers Anet.
Apparently, Anet has had some major security issues, and I'd like to know why exactly the red message is there. WTH happened Anet???
Strangely enough though, I tried to do the same for my GF's account, logged into PlayNC (also with a unique password), and was surprised to see her game account suddenly WAS NOT linked to PlayNC anymore!?!? WTH!?!? I KNOW we linked it, because I had all the info written down. So I changed her password the old fashion way in the game itself (which is ever so easy). Still, how come her account suddenly got un-linked from PlayNC??? And how to link it back again???
I'd love some answers Anet.
chessyang
hum. went to change my password and the website reads
"This site is temporarily unavailable due to scheduled maintenance.
Please check back again soon."
eeek
"This site is temporarily unavailable due to scheduled maintenance.
Please check back again soon."
eeek
gone
It's about time...
Voltaic Ectoplasm
See... either PlayNC and Anet have an insider.. or they have been hacked themselves.......
btw... PlayNC/Anet do not have your passwords, they are your passwords that they do not know......
btw... PlayNC/Anet do not have your passwords, they are your passwords that they do not know......
I Angra I
The only reason you should be concerned is if you use the same password for GW as you do for other things like forums, other games, etc.. if that's the case you should probably change it to something different for GW anyway even without this new warning.
Konker2020
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Originally Posted by Voltaic Ectoplasm
See... either PlayNC and Anet have an insider.. or they have been hacked themselves.......
btw... PlayNC/Anet do not have your passwords, they are your passwords that they do not know...... |
Aleta
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Originally Posted by flubber
It is as legit as you can get.
However, I'm not going to run off and start changing passwords...just yet. the last part does sound suspicious though, doesn't it? it makes me think that someone, somewhere KNOWS that there was a breach...BIG TIME. /edit my thoughts exactly (at poster a few above me, you beat me to it!) |
There's to many of us that got hacked for it to be anything else
Solar AUS
the solution is this. to hack that u really need some skill and most likely would target a bank ... and while I am at it, its worth to "copy" some good things for gw2 (authenticator, auction house, ...)
GODh
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Originally Posted by Sagra
To be fair, when I signed up for the XTH, I specifically remember a statement about not using the same password as for logging into GW itself.
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Voltaic Ectoplasm
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Originally Posted by GODh
That is correct but those rules changed in the last month(s) of XTH; the last month (or maybe a bit longer) you could only login to the XTH website by using the login-info from gw itself. Soon after XTH was taken down...
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Cody (Linnes)
Yeah, just changed 2 of my accounts passwords.
The bad thing is one of them was a friends who quit (3 years ago) and it wont let me log back on it. So unless I figure out wtf happened i'm screwed (dont have the CD key or anything).
The bad thing is one of them was a friends who quit (3 years ago) and it wont let me log back on it. So unless I figure out wtf happened i'm screwed (dont have the CD key or anything).
midnightduo1
sounds like a witch hunt
Sha Noran
Online game accounts get stolen so much... I would swear it's like 1/4th of the Chinese economy.
A Singaporean friend of mine visited China on a school trip at a pretty mature age, and at the internet cafes there, he said he saw that all the vacant computers were just running bots farming gold. =/
A Singaporean friend of mine visited China on a school trip at a pretty mature age, and at the internet cafes there, he said he saw that all the vacant computers were just running bots farming gold. =/
AtomicMew
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Originally Posted by Sha Noran
Online game accounts get stolen so much... I would swear it's like 1/4th of the Chinese economy.
A Singaporean friend of mine visited China on a school trip at a pretty mature age, and at the internet cafes there, he said he saw that all the vacant computers were just running bots farming gold. =/ |
IIIBNIII
Hey guys, change your passwords asap, all my storage money was taken and a few 15ks erased
And no, I've never used any bots or anything questionable. The password for gw was only shared on a few sites like play nc and an email account...
[edit] Shoot, just realized that they had the old black dye on them too
And no, I've never used any bots or anything questionable. The password for gw was only shared on a few sites like play nc and an email account...
[edit] Shoot, just realized that they had the old black dye on them too
Voltaic Ectoplasm
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Originally Posted by IIIBNIII
Hey guys, change your passwords asap, all my storage money was taken and a few 15ks erased
And no, I've never used any bots or anything questionable. The password for gw was only shared on a few sites like play nc and an email account... [edit] Shoot, just realized that they had the old black dye on them too |
IIIBNIII
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Originally Posted by Voltaic Ectoplasm
grrr looks like guild wars has serious issues........ i dnno wether to change pass or keep it as it is....... :O so confused
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Voltaic Ectoplasm
What about ectos im sure they will take the ectos?!?!
IIIBNIII
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Originally Posted by Voltaic Ectoplasm
What about ectos im sure they will take the ectos?!?!
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Happy Holidays guys...
Zebideedee
I'm totally paranoid now, I scanned my comp. with about 5 different antivirus/spyware etc. then changed my pass to a looooong one. I think I can safely say if I get hacked it won't have been my fault. Hope to god I don't though, that'll ruin Wintersday 
Evil_Necro
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Maybe, I couldn't remember most of what I had in the storages. Things like fellas missing pants were a bit more noticable
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I did reset mine. Hope I can remember it though.. >_>