New wave of hacked accounts?

Someone knows if ncsoft site have still problems?
Three people of my alliance and guild got hacked in around five days.

What do you mean "hacked"?

Password and account stealed and then changed. They can't access with their old account name and passwd.

not on that much anymore but they seem to have taken down the "reset your password" message on title screen.

I did notice a new phishing email wanting you to log into a fake Ncsoft website with username/pass.

ya seen a few tweets about this. i hope adding the character name helped

Not new, these have been going around for a while.
I keep getting about 3 from WoW and 2 of Aion (which I don't have an account for) each day.


But if your dumb enough to fall for those emails, then I would say your GW account should be the least of your problems.

To OP, there doesn't seem to have been an increase in account issues recently, in fact it seems to have calmed down quite alot.

I'm personally happy they finally removed the "change your password" note because i change it not long after it was added and I still had to look at the annoying note everytime i logged in.

I honestly don't know anyone who's ever been hacked in "Guild Wars". I have never even noticed a problem.

The only "hacked" accounts I knew of were from people dumb enough to give out their password.

The new phishing email has apparently got some people, but other than that, I haven't heard much.

Dunno. Seems less then before actually.

I only know 1 person who got hacked (but he restored his account, with everything gone!). A ingame mate hacked him. A few months later. I asked him if he wanted to farm snowball dominance for me (on my account). Because we know each other ingame, we switched passes and id's. And played that weekend on eachother accounts. I did pvp on his account, he got me max ebon vanguard on my acc.

So it's quite strange, that he trusted me after he being hacked before. But if u talk enough with eachother, u can mostly find out if he/she can be trusted or not. BUT JUST NEVER DO WHAT I DID! It's very risky.

It's also against the user agreement.

http://www.guildwars.com/support/leg...-agreement.php

It would be pretty pathetic if they ban me for that while there are botters, hackers and goldsellers running arround

They take anyone they can get
botters, hackers, goldsellers, account sharers, and hookers.

Myself and 3 others routinely use the same accounts. We haven't had a problem.

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Could be related to the stealth anti-GWCA update, leading to many "yes... my account was... hacked".

dedicated guild wars only e-mail ftw

For some of us, that is a bit too late, perhaps a few years too late.

There is no hole in NCSoft btw guys.

There are a number of ways people are getting hacked and it is at the fault of the account owner. Most people will say, no.. no it isn't but if you think pretty hard about it, it is. If a hacker wants your account really bad, he'll try anything to get it. They will stalk all of your online accounts and posts made by you in hopes of finding that password, hidden among the rubble not normally noticeable by ordinary folk.

I wouldn't be surprised if random e-mails (known to have a slight connection to gw) were tried with reasonably possible passwords at the logon screen of GW in hopes of getting a bite.

I noticed someone messaging he could teach a way to get 10 Zaishen keys for free. Sounded like a scam so I did not respond. But I wonder what he would have asked next...

Well your wrong and uninformed.

I've played for close to five years and was hacked then end of last year. I have never given my password to anyone and have a separate email address then I use here. They took all my GW cash, ecto stacks, ripped my FoW armor off 4 characters, and so on.

No good reply from Anet other then don't give out your password. Really....no shit.

I haven't seen anything that would make me think there's a wave of anything.

Phishing attempts still work or else the nefarious that run them would have moved onto something else.