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World of Tanks: Security Breach Announced
SBFord
Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129
Wargaming has announced that personal information may have been revealed for World of Tanks players due to a recent security breach. The team investigated the incident and has determined that no financial data was compromised but that passwords may have been revealed. As a result, Wargaming is requesting players change passwords.
The security of your account is very important to us at Wargaming. As a precaution, we are launching a global campaign to increase the security of your account. To start, sign into your account on the World of Tanks portal to access the security tools. Please reset your Wargaming ID account password using the Account Management page.
Head to the link above to change your password.
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I Reject your Reality and Substitute it with My Own!
Wish it had an extra 0
Playing: FFXIV
Future: wishing for SWG 2, World of Warcraft Classic
Played: Most current and extinct MMO's - 18 Years in....
Interesting Fact - I own 27 Tarantula's
You were able to get your email changed? I never heard back from them.
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Kyleran: "Now there's the real trick, learning to accept and enjoy a game for what it offers rather than pass on what might be a great playing experience because it lacks a few features you prefer."
John Henry Newman: "A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault."
FreddyNoNose: "A good game needs no defense; a bad game has no defense." "Easily digested content is just as easily forgotten."
LacedOpium: "So the question that begs to be asked is, if you are not interested in the game mechanics that define the MMORPG genre, then why are you playing an MMORPG?"
Idiot be the person who believes that in today's world anything is secure, even the Pentagon gets hacked once in a while and they have several orders of magnitude more money invested in their security than Wargaming has per total. Just food for thought.
Epic Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAigCvelkhQ&list=PLo9FRw1AkDuQLEz7Gvvaz3ideB2NpFtT1
https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos?&sort=-downloads&page=1
Kyleran: "Now there's the real trick, learning to accept and enjoy a game for what it offers rather than pass on what might be a great playing experience because it lacks a few features you prefer."
John Henry Newman: "A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault."
FreddyNoNose: "A good game needs no defense; a bad game has no defense." "Easily digested content is just as easily forgotten."
LacedOpium: "So the question that begs to be asked is, if you are not interested in the game mechanics that define the MMORPG genre, then why are you playing an MMORPG?"
Idiot be the person who believes that in today's world anything is secure, even the Pentagon gets hacked once in a while and they have several orders of magnitude more money invested in their security than Wargaming has per total. Just food for thought.
Almost all hacks rely on human error.Problem with random password generators like this is that you need to keep a list of these randomly generated passwords somewhere. Most ppl using this tool will make a plain ASCII file on their PC with all data (ID, pass, site) where they have used them. I wonder how save that is with all the botnets out there harvesting these kind of files ;-)
IMO it's best to keep a couple of passwords as default and start exchanging letters for numbers. Like E for 3, A for 4 or @ and such. This way you know your password and you only have to remember which 'version' you have used where.
So a person could tell a dozen people the password. They could use the same password over and over again on different sites. Always problems.
You know the world isn't f-ing perfect. It's just a f-ing suggestion.
Epic Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAigCvelkhQ&list=PLo9FRw1AkDuQLEz7Gvvaz3ideB2NpFtT1
https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos?&sort=-downloads&page=1
Kyleran: "Now there's the real trick, learning to accept and enjoy a game for what it offers rather than pass on what might be a great playing experience because it lacks a few features you prefer."
John Henry Newman: "A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault."
FreddyNoNose: "A good game needs no defense; a bad game has no defense." "Easily digested content is just as easily forgotten."
LacedOpium: "So the question that begs to be asked is, if you are not interested in the game mechanics that define the MMORPG genre, then why are you playing an MMORPG?"
In as far as there is no such thing as a perfect defense against anything, yes, but direct human error (IE someone went surfing for porn at work, or opened a e-mail before checking, or did something else stupid) is a rare aid to hackers, it does happen when someone drops the ball but not that often.
Also fun little example: A guy from the US a few years back got on the bad side of the FBI, now this guy wasn't a terorist of any kind, didn't break any laws, just managed to piss the wrong people off, and this guy being a little bit savy when it came to PCs decided that he'd troll the innevitable FBI raid on his house by encrypting his hard drive with a 1024 bit encryption key and when the FBI did raid his house and found the hard drive they proceeded to try and crack it... after about a week they took the guy into custody and demanded that he give them the key or that he'd face serious charges, now the issue is they had nothing on him, not even probable cause to believe he had anything on the disk, so he said quietly: Have fun cracking it. To this day the FBI hasn't managed to break the encryption on that disk. How is that possible? 1024 encryption methods are impossible to brute force within sane timeframes (at top speed a current gen computer would require several million years to crack a 1024 bit connection by randomly guessing number combinations).
There isn't a single MMO developer out there that hasn't had their customer information hacked. Blizzard, Trion, Funcom, Sony, EA and the list goes on and on. Passwords, emails, financial and personal information stolen etc.
The scary thing about all this is that with all the hacking that's going on there's, like, hardly any Police work/media attention. I mean these companies hold financial and personal information on like tens of thousands of people and it's obvious that cyber criminals are now focusiong on these companies. doesn't that, like, warrant more attention from the media and the police?
You can also use something like lastpass It keeps all your passwords on your computer and they're encripted. It's not 100% of course but it does let you use much more complex pass words in games and if you forget them months later they're easy to retreave.
You are kind of screwed if your hard drive crashes though.
Off-hard backups (a flash drive you keep on your person at all times as like a key chain or something).
I have to wonder why I read the news hear, and those idiots from wot did not send me an email saying hey you you need to reset your password.
Just saying that is wrong. Glad at least I seen this here.
It's plastered on their game launcher and their site, just saying if you played the game you would've noticed by now on your own
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I not played the game in over 6 months, I am sure there are many more like me who simply do not play it any more. They need to know as well, not everybody plays a game 24/7/365
Epic Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAigCvelkhQ&list=PLo9FRw1AkDuQLEz7Gvvaz3ideB2NpFtT1
https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos?&sort=-downloads&page=1
Kyleran: "Now there's the real trick, learning to accept and enjoy a game for what it offers rather than pass on what might be a great playing experience because it lacks a few features you prefer."
John Henry Newman: "A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault."
FreddyNoNose: "A good game needs no defense; a bad game has no defense." "Easily digested content is just as easily forgotten."
LacedOpium: "So the question that begs to be asked is, if you are not interested in the game mechanics that define the MMORPG genre, then why are you playing an MMORPG?"
keepass fills in the game log in screen as well ? I know you said it but just wanted to make sure I read it right :P if so that's a great feature.
Yes because I don't sleep at all, Christ I barely play the game nowadays myself and I found out here, on MMORPG first, but the site put it up within 1-2 hours after Wargaming announced it themselves so your logic is non-existent as while indeed you did not get an e-mail Wargaming has gone to the effort of even announcing (or at least confirming) to major MMO news outlets of their hack. Now if your account was important to you or the game continued to interest you considering the recent slew of events and the soon to be launched 0.8.5 you would've noticed like I did
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What I get from this poster is the following: I am angry because I use the same password in WoT on multiple games!! because otherwise why would he care about a game he hasn't played in over half a year?
Because he intends to play it again someday? Sometimes the simple answer is the correct one.
Following that simple logic train especially considering how much stuff is going on in the game lately he would've been checking up on the site and thus seen the posted warning on the front page (there's new news from the development or tournament side of the game daily and contests keep coming up which don't require a team, Hell one or two don't even require you to be in-game).
i havent touched WoT since 8.5 came out that steamrolled the stupid cheapo/noob instant kill ramming crap, i dont get why people are so angry at WoT... this isnt uncommon in interweb products
so why is everyone ripping skin off WG for the breach?? it happens.. fix your PW and move on thats what i have done. woopy 300g which might allow me to trade my marder 2 xp in to free on my stug meh..
not a valid reason to flip out and demand a lynching IMO
unless it was like the DBS had no security what so ever.. then ya sure lets lynch them high