Four Steps to Recover from MMO Account Hacking
By
Celestial_Lord,
Posted on: 2011-11-22 14:09 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
All good advice, though I have to say that Statler and Waldorf in you sig make it look like they are mocking the poor victim. 
I find your lack of signature disturbing.
My CoH account got hacked last year and ended up being banned. I have to say the CS folks were very helpful in clearing up the matter. Now I use Last Pass for generating/storing passwords for any web-based stuff I do.
Works well, and it's free. Just waiting for the announcement that "Last Pass Has Been Hacked! User Information Compromised! Change All Passwords IMMEDIATELY!"
- Garielle
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Originally Posted by Garielle
My CoH account got hacked last year and ended up being banned. I have to say the CS folks were very helpful in clearing up the matter. Now I use Last Pass for generating/storing passwords for any web-based stuff I do.
Works well, and it's free. Just waiting for the announcement that "Last Pass Has Been Hacked! User Information Compromised! Change All Passwords IMMEDIATELY!" |
However, Last Pass was indeed hacked back in May.
The way Last Pass responded to the attack actually impressed me and made me sign up with 'em.
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Good article.
I use password safe, its stored locally on your computer/usb. passwordsafe.sourceforge.net
I'd find it hard to trust a web based password service, you are putting a lot of faith in every stop between you and thier web page - how does it protect against man in midle attacks, things like firesheep if you want to access something when at a cafe etc.
And I'm sure lastpass is more of a target than my computer.
But from all reports they (lastpass) do the security very well. It's just my personal paranoia that would stop me using an internet based password keeper.
I don't suffer from altitis, I enjoy every minute of it.
Thank you Devs & Community people for a great game.
So sad to be ending ):
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I used to use KeePass. However, between having and using my desktop computer, a notebook computer, an Android smartphone, and now an iPad 2, I began to see the light in using a remote password manager, lol. It makes things so much easier. I realize it's not as secure, but like I said in a prior post, the way Last Pass responded to the attack in May impressed me and made me choose them.
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Originally Posted by tanstaafl
Good article.
I use password safe, its stored locally on your computer/usb. passwordsafe.sourceforge.net I'd find it hard to trust a web based password service, you are putting a lot of faith in every stop between you and thier web page - how does it protect against man in midle attacks, things like firesheep if you want to access something when at a cafe etc. And I'm sure lastpass is more of a target than my computer. But from all reports they (lastpass) do the security very well. It's just my personal paranoia that would stop me using an internet based password keeper. |
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If you have dropbox, you can actually store the database in that, and keep the "unlock" key on your local PC...|
Originally Posted by Celestial_Lord
I used to use KeePass. However, between having and using my desktop computer, a notebook computer, an Android smartphone, and now an iPad 2, I began to see the light in using a remote password manager, lol. It makes things so much easier. I realize it's not as secure, but like I said in a prior post, the way Last Pass responded to the attack in May impressed me and made me choose them.
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Each is useless without the other, and due to the synching of dropbox it at least keeps the passwords updated between the two.
Did use Lastpass, but stopped using it when it stopped working with Opera (i have since swapped browsers, and am now using Keepass for *all* my password storage (even games) )
PC Gamer just posted an excellent piece on four steps to recover from MMOG account hacking. While it's generic to all MMOGs, it's good, simple, advice I thought I'd share as it is, unfortunately, something that is becoming more and more common.
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