Account Hackings - The Source

this guy claims to.
it could just be shoddy coding. database could be pointing at wrong profiles. i haven't seen another person's account yet and i've been using the ncsoft master account for a while now.

not sure if it was a coincidence but seemed like a lot of the current wave of hackings happened after aion got released and it seems like a lot of aion accounts have been stolen as well.

They've always ignored these threads until the Guru mods get behind them and demand accountability. Since this is an NCSoft problem, I'd imagine that the ANet people are going to distance themselves until they have the opportunity to verify and confer with NCSoft.

Also, there are three times the number of posts in the thread about hats. Says something about the GW community and the (shortsighted) priorities of many.

I have just been looking for such an option in my account, i wasn't aware it could not be done

*sobs in corner, wishing he hadn't linked GW account to NCSoft account*

heh you're telling me. i got 10 gw accounts and 3 coh accounts linked to that . ..

Yes they have, as some posters here have alrdy tried doing it, by allowing this exploit to remain open in the public like they are doing. This problem was known by some and were trying to get it fixed before to many found out to exploit it.

Oh dear, if this is true the shit will hit the fan again.

the dupe method report to gaile that got fenix and i banned was patched within an hour of them finding out about it. makes me wonder how they were trying to get it fixed . .. this has been going on for how long now? i would also consider this a heck of a lot more dangerous than a dupe was. if anet or ncsoft knew about this already from players, it should have been a priority to fix, especially since they could've just made some small changes to prevent this.

Yeah..this makes it official. I'm cancelling my GW2 pre-order. I'm not buying another piece of shi..er...software from this company until they fix the security problems. I'm not paying money for an account that is going to be easily stolen. And yes, if I purchased a piece of software, I technically do own something and have legal rights to compensation (in the form of a refund for all products purchased). Maybe Anet & NCSoft would react a little more in the players best interest if a number of us contacted the BBB & our local Attorney Generals.

with the online games, you own the right to access their server with an account. you do not own the actual data. if you read the eula closely, it states that.

i allways worried that this day would come and well as has been said its lets hope ncsoft admit to this if its true and get it fixed prompto

In the hat thread's defense, Regina was in there encouraging users to describe where and when the hats failed to launch and people are constantly showing up with their own personal details, whereas this thread's mostly intelligent discussion of a big problem.

Fixing is one thing, admitting there is a major security problem....

Actually this is a very common problem, I recall having the same thing about ten years ago when I was doing my first web apps. The problem then was lack of thread safety in interop code, but there are other causes. It was quite a common problem about 7 or 8 years ago with some ecommerce and even financial sites, not heard of it for a while though, it's something web developers and testers should know about if they are in that business.

Worrying isn't it.


Who votes to unlink their GW account from NCSoft?

Hear hear! *leaves signature*

It would require very very bad coding, bug and stuff. Its hard to believe, if it took only 60 tries then its a pretty common thing. Its hard to believe the bug existed even in first place, but possible, thinking that still exist, well i will need more proof of that.

what's to be concerning is that at the moment not only a few guys in the game believe this to be a whole fraud; like in the GM's hacking and thus trying to keep the GW population distant and leave the game. Their idea is that, the less people that play GW, the less it will take to maintain the servers. Doesn't make too much sense to me, but just my 0.23$

I understand what your saying, but any hacker worth his salt would know to use a proxy connection doing this. A proxy hides his real ip by stealing someone elses which means you wouldnt be punishing the hacker- just the poor schlub that he stole the ip from. If that were another gw player, that would suck.

So wait, Linsey got her account broken into? When was this?

i could see that if the game was dying and had no successor but they have gw2 to look at. most of the players who play gw1 will probably eventually buy gw2 (unless their experience becomes so soured that they'll move on to a different company)