got hacked in 2008 but ty anet becouse i think this will help a lot
yes only after 10/11 but still good
Guild Wars - Limited Account Restorations
Oni-Claire
ruk1a
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Originally Posted by Swingline
I can somewhat understand peoples frustration, especially those who were hacked before 10/1/2011 but there are things you must consider before you start throwing bricks through their window.
Arena Net is in no way close to the size of Blizzard so resources go to where they are needed. Guild Wars was Arena Nets first game. Mistakes were made and they are learning from them. 90% of people that were hacked were not careful enough. This includes sharing account info, downloading material from a suspicious site or person and having passwords a monkey could guess(ex. PASSWORD). These people should be blaming themselves. The NCMA incident is not Anets fault. It is NCsofts. You can throw your verbal bricks at them. |
Adding numbers, alt codes such as ☼, making it the character limit, all of these will basically ensure you can't be "hacked" <-- that word is thrown around too much, 90% of people that are "hacked" are just brute forced because their passwords are not secure enough.
I doubt any real hackers would waste their time with a game such as GW.
Also, keeping every one of your passwords different for every one of your emails, forum logins, etc. is another great precaution and it doesn't need to be a dramatic change just 1 or 2 letters or changing a number 9 to IX things like that.
Lucci_Slevin
Thanks Regina I know a couple of people who will be very glad to hear this news. Sorry to all who did not make the cut off.
Nobody ever got brute forced, no matter how simple their password was. It could be 1234 and they wont try to brute forced you. MMO hackers just don't use that method.
The number one method they use is forum database theft. Guru for example has had their account database broken into multiple times in their history. If your guild wars password was the same as guru's or any other major gw site like inc or teamquitters, then it is pretty much a question of when, not if, you would get hacked. It doesn't matter if you password is a hundred characters long when that happens.
Considering Anet has had no control over these sites over the years, I think they have done a lot. I always thought the Guild Wars fansites should make something like a huge red flashing disclaimer pop-up when you register that says not to use your Guild Wars password as you forum password.
Nobody ever got brute forced, no matter how simple their password was. It could be 1234 and they wont try to brute forced you. MMO hackers just don't use that method.
The number one method they use is forum database theft. Guru for example has had their account database broken into multiple times in their history. If your guild wars password was the same as guru's or any other major gw site like inc or teamquitters, then it is pretty much a question of when, not if, you would get hacked. It doesn't matter if you password is a hundred characters long when that happens.
Considering Anet has had no control over these sites over the years, I think they have done a lot. I always thought the Guild Wars fansites should make something like a huge red flashing disclaimer pop-up when you register that says not to use your Guild Wars password as you forum password.
Hanok Odbrook
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Originally Posted by Lucci_Slevin
Thanks Regina I know a couple of people who will be very glad to hear this news. Sorry to all who did not make the cut off.
Nobody ever got brute forced, no matter how simple their password was. It could be 1234 and they wont try to brute forced you. MMO hackers just don't use that method. The number one method they use is forum database theft. Guru for example has had their account database broken into multiple times in their history. If your guild wars password was the same as guru's or any other major gw site like inc or teamquitters, then it is pretty much a question of when, not if, you would get hacked. It doesn't matter if you password is a hundred characters long when that happens. Considering Anet has had no control over these sites over the years, I think they have done a lot. I always thought the Guild Wars fansites should make something like a huge red flashing disclaimer pop-up when you register that says not to use your Guild Wars password as you forum password. |
As I told Gaile in the support forum, this update has given me that extra piece of mind to be able to sleep better at night by not having to worry about getting the dreaded "Login information not recognized" message when going to play the game. Like many others, it's too late to help me, but at least I know my accounts are now that much safer in the future and I don't have to worry about losing all that time I put into the game again.
Hanok
Laylat
Visiting untrusted sites doesn't help. It doesn't matter how strong your password/passphrase is; if you get a key logger installed on your PC thanks to visiting a web site, your keys strokes are logged.
If you suspect a key logger, you can type part of your password, click a few times somewhere random, then click back to your password bar and continue typing your password.
If you suspect a key logger, you can type part of your password, click a few times somewhere random, then click back to your password bar and continue typing your password.