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Great Rumbler

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Some Origin accounts hacked
« on: November 14, 2012, 10:09:53 AM »
Eurogamer are reporting that a number of people have woken up this morning to find that their EA Origin account has been hacked. Receiving emails telling them that changes have successfully been made, recipients are not too delighted since they never asked for any. And then of course getting control of their accounts back again is a great big palava. It’s even happened to one of Eurogamer’s own.

Rather than the phishing scam it might at first appear to be, these really are successfully changed account notifications. Which means someone has got hold of both a username and password of an account holder, and been able to circumnavigate the security that prevents an outsider being able to change such details. Because, as is mostly the norm, there isn’t any. I’ve just loaded my own Origin account, and when logged in all I need to do to change the password is know the old one. That done, the original account holder is locked out. Fairly standard, obviously.

And because your Origin account details are the same as those for your EA profile, with the same info you can log into profile.ea.com and change the email address too. The only security check to do that is, obviously, to enter the same password again. Doing this sends an email to your previously registered address, but contains absolutely no information about what it’s been changed to. So once someone’s been in and changed the details, you’ve no way of knowing what they’ve changed both your email address nor password to. They’ve got complete control of your account, and with that can even change your Origin ID.
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Joe Molotov

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Re: Some Origin accounts hacked
« Reply #1 on: November 14, 2012, 10:41:43 AM »
They can have it.
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archie4208

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Re: Some Origin accounts hacked
« Reply #2 on: November 14, 2012, 11:17:13 AM »
I hope they don't steal my free games.  :'(

G The Resurrected

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Re: Some Origin accounts hacked
« Reply #3 on: November 14, 2012, 12:14:44 PM »
Hmm same time of year as when my Xbox and EA accounts were hacked. This world man, its getting scary...

Change your passwords folks!

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Re: Some Origin accounts hacked
« Reply #4 on: November 14, 2012, 02:10:37 PM »
Not a worry for me since I don't have an account.

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Re: Some Origin accounts hacked
« Reply #5 on: November 15, 2012, 07:44:15 PM »
I remember when people were afraid to make online purchases because they thought their account information would be stolen; now it seems to happen all the time, and people are blasé about it.