“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 message came alongside a tidal wave of lost accounts. For the past couple of months, ArenaNet has been working tirelessly to boost the security of the system, and the first changes are finally making their way in-game.
Those of you who log into Guild Wars will notice that there is a new option to fill in. Aside from your username and password, you will have to correctly name one of the characters on your account. ArenaNet is continuing to formulate methods of keeping accounts secure, so this new field is not the only change to come.
Although the new field will help with brute force exploits, it won’t do anything to help one of the leading causes of lost accounts: key loggers. Blizzard had a good idea by introducing the security dongle that changes your password every couple of seconds. As long as you don’t lose the dongle, your account is essentially theft-proof.
More on people with poor account security (using the same password for a game and its much more hack-prone fansite) as it appears.
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