Protect Your Account: Change Your Password - 16 December 2009

Message from Regina Buenaobra

Protect Your Account: Change Your Password - 16 December 2009

We are aware of the increase in hacking attempts on Guild Wars player accounts. We take account security very seriously and are actively working on solutions to further protect your accounts.

Hackers know that players often use the same account names and passwords for multiple games, or share passwords between games and game-related web sites. Through the use of key loggers, Trojans, and attacks against other sites, hackers have built extensive lists of account names and passwords. They check these account names and passwords to see whether any of them are valid for Guild Wars, and steal any accounts they can access this way. Thus, to protect your Guild Wars account, be sure to use a password for Guild Wars that you don’t use anywhere else.

To further protect your account, take the following steps:

· Change your password regularly and make sure it is unique to Guild Wars!
· Don’t use third-party programs.
· Don’t share your account.
· Don’t type your Guild Wars password into any other site.
· Never buy a used account.
· Keep your email account secure.
· Don’t buy gold or items from a real-money trader.
· Don’t trade game accounts or access keys for in-game payment.
· Be careful on third party sites.
For more account security tips, please visit this page.

Rest assured this matter is of the utmost importance to us. We are working on additional modifications to keep accounts secure.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/User:..._December_2009