Forum Breach : Othor Games

» Sun Aug 14, 2011 1:02 am

My beautiful mustache and smile. Gone. The world is ending before our eyes!

» Sat Aug 13, 2011 8:00 pm

My beautiful mustache and smile. Gone. The world is ending before our eyes!

I know that feel bro.....

Now it really is 'connection lost....' :sadvaultboy:

» Sun Aug 14, 2011 2:13 am

Ah I just got the email to change my password.....slightly late. But better then never.

» Sun Aug 14, 2011 3:39 am

Heee! I went about 4.5 years without an avatar here...guess my experiment's over

» Sat Aug 13, 2011 11:01 pm

Ah I just got the email to change my password.....slightly late. But better then never.

The breach happened this morning and I just got the email about a half hour ago. Better late then never for sure, still the earlier the warning the better.

» Sat Aug 13, 2011 10:12 pm

I know that feel bro.....

Now it really is 'connection lost....' :sadvaultboy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC75aU47GRk

(Bethesda catches hackers)

Stop right there criminal scum!! Your spree is at an end!!!!

» Sat Aug 13, 2011 10:47 pm

The breach happened this morning and I just got the email about a half hour ago. Better late then never for sure, still the earlier the warning the better.

I've yet to get it myself, though when I got the "forgot my password" emails right away, thank goodness (read some others weren't so lucky)

Edit: of course right after posting this it arrives

» Sat Aug 13, 2011 12:12 pm

My beautiful mustache and smile. Gone. The world is ending before our eyes!

I'm considering suicide. . .

» Sun Aug 14, 2011 1:45 am

You can destroy liberty prime but the brotherhood will rebuild me stronger then ever!!!

» Sat Aug 13, 2011 6:22 pm

This is confusing. I usually recognize people by their avatars...

» Sat Aug 13, 2011 7:23 pm

This is confusing. I usually recognize people by their avatars...

Same here. Hey we have the same birthday!

I'm considering suicide. . .

Quite understandable. The smile and stache combo filled society with hope for years, but now that it's gone...

» Sat Aug 13, 2011 11:29 am

I know this has probably been said, but if you repeat your passwords and are looking to change your ways, head over to the Freeware Guide topic, it has a list of some good password managers.

» Sat Aug 13, 2011 6:12 pm

In anticipation of the event in which we wouldn't have avatars for a while...I made some example ones to use for when we can..:3

http://i53.tinypic.com/j14i92.png

I know, I'm weird. Is that so wrong?

» Sat Aug 13, 2011 7:10 pm

Ten bucks says this was Anonymous or LulzSec.

» Sat Aug 13, 2011 2:08 pm

Ten bucks says this was Anonymous or LulzSec.

Eh not the main groups. Maybe a splinter group of them. They would be bragging about it on their Twitters if it was them.

» Sat Aug 13, 2011 9:37 pm

Ten bucks says this was Anonymous or LulzSec.

So far, both are silent.

» Sun Aug 14, 2011 2:20 am

Eh not the main groups. Maybe a splinter group of them. They would be bragging about it on their Twitters if it was them.

Exactly. Lulzsec and Anonymous are all about getting attention, if it was them they wouldn't shut up about it. Honestly that is what sort of worries me. Sure Lulzsec put our info up for the whole world to see, but they weren't trying to steal out identity. Who knows what the people who breached the forum this time want to do with out info.

» Sat Aug 13, 2011 2:35 pm

Exactly. Lulzsec and Anonymous are all about getting attention, if it was them they wouldn't shut up about it. Honestly that is what sort of worries me. Sure Lulzsec put our info up for the whole world to see, but they weren't trying to steal out identity. Who knows what the people who breached the forum this time want to do with out info.

Well someone just tried to sign up a World of Warcraft account with my email. Though I am not sure if its related to this incident or not, but still.

» Sat Aug 13, 2011 9:21 pm

Exactly. Lulzsec and Anonymous are all about getting attention, if it was them they wouldn't shut up about it. Honestly that is what sort of worries me. Sure Lulzsec put our info up for the whole world to see, but they weren't trying to steal out identity. Who knows what the people who breached the forum this time want to do with out info.

Exactly. That is part of the modus operandi of LulzSec and Anonymous - break into systems and announce that they did it, rather then break into systems and steal everything and never announce it / sell it all for profit. It makes the companies responsible for their own security by announcing the hacks to the world - it is the hacks you never hear about that are the dangerous ones.

» Sat Aug 13, 2011 10:39 pm

Well someone just tried to sign up a World of Warcraft account with my email. Though I am not sure if its related to this incident or not, but still.

I had something similar happen to me a few weeks ago. I received an email, supposedly from Blizzard, saying that they had reason to believe that I was trying to sell my World of Warcraft account and they needed me to give them my info yo verify the account or it would be permanently suspended. I've never played WOW in my life and I don't have an account. I figured it was someone fishing for my info and ignored it.

» Sat Aug 13, 2011 6:21 pm

I had something similar happen to me a few weeks ago. I received an email, supposedly from Blizzard, saying that they had reason to believe that I was trying to sell my World of Warcraft account and they needed me to give them my info yo verify the account or it would be permanently suspended. I've never played WOW in my life and I don't have an account. I figured it was someone fishing for my info and ignored it.

Yeah, it got thrown into my Spam folder, I didnt open it, but Gmail has the preview of what it contains...oh well. Thanks to Gmail 2 step verification, my email feels secure.

» Sat Aug 13, 2011 3:45 pm

My new password email still hasn't been sent.

» Sat Aug 13, 2011 10:37 pm

Seeing as World of Worldcraft is easily dubbed the most popular game on the planet (statistically, anyway) the phishers guess, hey it's a 50/50 chance that we'll fool someone. Luckily, I don't play WoW and take the proper precautions before getting involved in things such as these. I've had previous run ins with others such as these, on a more..personal level. Fact is, I'm not so easily fooled. :3

Also because I don't take half of what's in my e-mail seriously..

» Sat Aug 13, 2011 12:31 pm

Again? Time to beef up the security guys..

THIS!

» Sun Aug 14, 2011 3:12 am

I had something similar happen to me a few weeks ago. I received an email, supposedly from Blizzard, saying that they had reason to believe that I was trying to sell my World of Warcraft account and they needed me to give them my info yo verify the account or it would be permanently suspended. I've never played WOW in my life and I don't have an account. I figured it was someone fishing for my info and ignored it.

I get all kinds of WoW emails all the time on my secondary / spam email account. Someone tried to sign up for an account in my name, my WoW account's been compromised, my Battle.net account's been compromised, etc. etc. etc. Three issues with that: 1) I don't have a WoW account, 2) I don't have a Battle.net account, and 3) if you examine the headers and the links they want you to click on, the emails aren't actually coming from Blizzard.

So, yeah. They're phishing emails. I get them occasionally from phishers after my equally non-existent eBay account, too.