BioWare Hit By Hackers
- Thread starter Andy Chalk
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Wow, look at that. A company fessing up to being hacked almost immediately after it happened! I sure am glad all companies do that, aren't you? 
You, sir, are quite possibly trolling. How long did it take for Sony to come clean about their MAJOR hack? Yes, BioWare could have been more protected, but this was a server for a very old game. How many people expect things that are so out of date to be in danger of any serious threat?Mad Stalin said:
I'm not sure. I'm guessing that either EA were being really cautions or paranoid and sent that e-mail to everyone to reset their passwords, or maybe more than that old server was hacked and they're just using last week's Neverwinter Nights hacking story to cover up what really went down.AnnaIME said:
EA's digital distribution service, Origin, is launching soon and it will use the same account as the ones they reset the password for, so maybe they're just being extra cautious and covering themselves... however I am very suspicious as to why I had to change my password because of a game I've never played - if the e-mail wasn't genuine and hadn't taken me to the official EA website, I would swear it was a phishing scam.
Oh dear, I just deleted the e-mail, thinking it was a variation on the mails I keep getting from "Blizzard".Jamash said:
Just checked. Yes, my password for The Sims 3 no longer works. It seems sensitive information may be at risk. I have never used the Store, but those who buy simpoints have to enter their credit card number, don't they?
Hackers hit BioWare? Time for the gloves to come off, if I ever meet a hacker IRL, and he tells me he's from Lulzsec or something, cops getting called right away, I'm done with their shit, ruining everyone elses fun. Fuck hackers. Do something creative and steal info from Iran or something.
I swear, everyday I look at gaming news, somebody is being hacked! This is ridiculous! What? "We managed to take Sony offline, so now everyone else is fair game?" Is that it?
Sigh. It's reasons like this as to why I hate society.
Sigh. It's reasons like this as to why I hate society.
I still play this game, and used the forums as a sort of FAQ.
To be blunt, this sucks, this sucks hard, but luckily I had an old bioware account, not an EA one, so I'm good.
To be blunt, this sucks, this sucks hard, but luckily I had an old bioware account, not an EA one, so I'm good.
This has no bearing on the story whatsoever, but when I read that sentence my mind immediately flashed to Tron: Legacy.Andy Chalk said:
OT: Perhaps, in a couple decades or so, we'll have some kind of rebel hacker team fighting the injustices of some corrupt institution which they can make into some kind of movie or something, but what nobody wants to see is BioWare being hacked, especially the forum servers of one of their better games. There are more important and definitely less well-meaning things out there on the Internet to attack.
Me too, it looked so fake, just a plain text document. I didn't think it was real at all.Littaly said:Huh? This was real?
I got the e-mail this morning but I assumed it was a phishing scam
At this point though, I've not touched NWN for years and whatever details of mine someone may have got are completely worthless. So I guess I'm safe.