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 internet may not be a bad decision either. NCsoft continues to wage the war against real money traders, and unfortunately it is the players who are getting caught in the crossfire, with several fansites being compromised in the past few months.
Not that I need an excuse to reiterate this point in a new article, but members of Aionsource.com should be very wary of what pops up in your email over the next few months. According to an email from Aionsource.com, their website was compromised several days ago and a list of email addresses was stolen, leading to a large number of Aion players receiving emails that are phishing scams.
If you are a member of Aionsource, consider changing your password. Passwords may not have been stolen this time, but there is no saying that won’t happen if there is a next time. Otherwise, still take that advice, but apply it to whatever non-corporate owned website you visit. Remember, if the hackers don’t get you, a disgruntled soon-to-be-ex administrator might.
More on Aion, account theft, and more as it comes.
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