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Note: The above video contains strong language, not safe for work. I imagine the above video pretty accurately describes how Playstation users are feeling today. In case you hadn’t heard, Sony has shut down the ability to log in outside of your playstation following an exploit that popped up allowing players to reset an account’s [...]
Posts Tagged ‘account theft’
How To End Security Issues For…Some Time.
April 4th, 2011 
Omali Security. In the game of anything tech related, security would be the boss you fight before fighting Lucifer himself. The big question that lies heavy on the minds of the IT guys is: how do you save the consumers, when most of the time their biggest enemy is themselves? People losing their account because their [...]
Rift: How About An Authenticator?
March 18th, 2011 Omali Rift launched last month to the fervor of a substantial number of people, opening up more than thirty servers in the days after launch to deal with population. With the mechanics involved, Rift has pulled in players from World of Warcraft and similar MMOs, by presenting a similar game with a new mechanic attached: Dynamic [...]
Keep Your Battle.net Accounts Safe
December 6th, 2010 Omali Nothing kills interest in a game like having your account stolen and spending the next few days or weeks getting it back. Here at MMO Fallout, I like to do little PSAs when either myself or the company are putting out reminders. There’s no harm in a little protective gaming every now and then. Battle.net [...]
AionSource.com: Another Reason To Use a Fake Email Address
January 30th, 2010 Omali My suggestion for dealing with fansites has always been, if you have to register for the forums, use a separate email and a separate password, and preferably a separate username than you use on the game the website is dedicated to. If your game of choice is Aion, an armed bodyguard following you around the [...]
Lord of the Rings: Keep Your Account Safe
January 28th, 2010 Omali It was bound to happen eventually, but it looks like NCsoft’s recent rise in account theft has bled over to Turbine and Lord of the Rings Online. Just a couple days ago, Turbine placed the above notice on the game launcher, reminding players to change their password regularly. Granted, if you have a password that isn’t [...]
City of Heroes: Keep Your Accounts Safe
January 7th, 2010 Omali Another day, another development in the ongoing NCsoft security issue. Amidst widespread fear of account theft, security holes, and random account logging, with Guild Wars and Aion leading the pack, it was only a matter of time before City of Heroes joined the pack warning users to increase their awareness. The reminder is standard trade: [...]
NCSecurity: Phantom Hacker Steals Aion Account
January 6th, 2010 Omali (Important) Continue reading down to the bottom of the article. There is a follow up link at the bottom to a more recent explanation. So I’ve been following the recent account thefts over at NCsoft (namely Aion and Guild Wars) pretty closely recently, not only because I play City of Heroes and if this account [...]
Your NCsoft Master Account: A Ticking Time Bomb?
January 2nd, 2010 Omali I’ve been sitting on this article for a while now, and it seems like the best time as ever to put it forward. NCsoft is currently investigating heavy allegations of massive security holes in the master account system. As I’ve reported before, the number of stolen Guild Wars and Aion accounts has gone up dramatically [...]
New Security Feature: Guild Wars
December 24th, 2009 Omali “one of the trading sites associated with Guild Wars may have experienced a security breach and its account database (including user names and passwords) may be in the hands of hackers.” This message by ArenaNet earlier this year is the message that players never want to hear, and as history tends to repeat itself, this [...]
