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Posted April 04, 2019
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As of last November, dozens of people have flocked to review boards and forums concerned over the seemingly random act of malicious attempts to access their accounts. unfortunately many of those attempts against this community have been successful.

I am exhibit A. I lost my account, and the email address affiliated with it in just under an hour to an unknown assailant. I am not the only one, many have suffered the effects of the criminals behind the acts.
You could be next on their list.

They are after any degree of personal, and financial information saved on our accounts. Be certain your accounts are secure, and your passwords are strong because you never know who might have their eyes on your hard earned money, and your well earned reputation.

Make sure your passwords for the GoG website and the email affiliated are updated and strong.

Upvote and follow for more notifications on GoG, and the games they provide.

Sincerely, Mr. Damien
Post edited April 04, 2019 by Evan_Damien
Posted April 04, 2019
Do all these people have 2-factor authentication turned on? (Hover over username -> Privacy & Settings -> Login And Security -> Two-Step Login)

Steam is plagued with the same thing (over 77,000 accounts hijacked per month):-
https://gamerant.com/77000-steam-accounts-hacked-monthly/
Posted April 04, 2019
I've never had this happen on any of my hundreds of accounts across the Internet. And I've been using the Internet since before the DNS was widespread, I remember typing IP addresses to access sites.

For GOG I do have two-step login enabled, but on so many other sites I don't. I don't even follow the rule of not using the same password on multiple sites, in fact most of my accounts have the same password. Personally I find it baffling as to how so many people end up getting their accounts hacked. I'm probably of so little interest, that not even Russian hackers are consider me a waste of time. :))

Having said that, Evan_Damien gives out some great advice, and I hope it helps people.
Post edited April 04, 2019 by MadalinStroe
Posted April 04, 2019
Sounds suspiciously confusing.

[i]I lost gog and email accounts.

People are flocking to other forums to express their fears instead of voicing them here.

People are being hacked by the thousands.

Safety first.

Give me upvotes and follow(?).[/i]
Posted April 04, 2019
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InkPanther: Sounds suspiciously confusing.
Isn't there a saying, never attribute to malice..., I forgot the rest ;)
Post edited April 04, 2019 by MadalinStroe
Posted April 04, 2019
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Evan_Damien: As of last November, dozens of people have flocked to review boards and forums concerned over the seemingly random act of malicious attempts to access their accounts. unfortunately many of those attempts against this community have been successful.

I am exhibit A. I lost my account, and the email address affiliated with it in just under an hour to an unknown assailant. I am not the only one, many have suffered the effects of the criminals behind the acts.
You could be next on their list.

They are after any degree of personal, and financial information saved on our accounts. Be certain your accounts are secure, and your passwords are strong because you never know who might have their eyes on your hard earned money, and your well earned reputation.

Make sure your passwords for the GoG website and the email affiliated are updated and strong.

Upvote and follow for more notifications on GoG, and the games they provide.

Sincerely, Mr. Damien
Ah so you are the real TinyE, I thought his persona changed!
Posted April 04, 2019
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MadalinStroe: I've never had this happen on any of my hundreds of accounts across the Internet.
Me neither.
The only time something was hacked or stolen was when my credit card information got stolen... from the credit card company itself!

I am certain that people who have their accounts stolen and stuff are doing something wrong.

Either they share their accounts or something, or they use such passwords which even a child could crack, like a person called "Sam", having a username "Sam", having a password "Sam".

The likelihood that someone's information gets compromised, when that person is having maximum security measures activated, doesn't share his account, is using only legal sites online etc. is really close to zero.
Posted April 04, 2019
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InkPanther: Sounds suspiciously confusing.

[i]I lost gog and email accounts.

People are flocking to other forums to express their fears instead of voicing them here.

People are being hacked by the thousands.

Safety first.

Give me upvotes and follow(?).[/i]
Unambiguously suspicious, IMO.
Posted April 04, 2019
The guy's last thread says Black and White 2 to make GOG millions. That's six zeroes followed by a non-zero digit.
Here he is, saying thousands of accounts have been hacked. That's three zeroes followed by a non-zero digit.

Does he have a fascination with zeroes?
Posted April 04, 2019
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PookaMustard: The guy's last thread says Black and White 2 to make GOG millions. That's six zeroes followed by a non-zero digit.
Here he is, saying thousands of accounts have been hacked. That's three zeroes followed by a non-zero digit.

Does he have a fascination with zeroes?
10,000,000 X 0 = Evan_Damien
Posted April 04, 2019
Seeing how many of these kind of compromised accounts go hand-in-hand with "F2P" games like Fortnite with Epic and CS:GO/DotA2/TF2 with Valve, I suspect Gwent's existence may have a very likely role in that.
Posted April 04, 2019
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Mr.Mumbles: Seeing how many of these kind of compromised accounts
What compromised accounts? The original post provided zero evidence for its assertions, which are highly likely to be 100% fictional.

The original post is baseless fear-mongering & clickbait spam.
Posted April 04, 2019
There seems to be a push ti instill fear in people on the forums lately.
Posted April 04, 2019
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wolfsite: There seems to be a push ti instill fear in people on the forums lately.
Fear Mongering is taking over everything

I wonder where it's coming from?
wolfsite, I think maybe you should go outside and look south.
Posted April 04, 2019
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Evan_Damien: They are after any degree of personal, and financial information saved on our accounts.
And which information would that be? GOG doesn't store your credit card card data and the only personal information they have is your e-mail adress.
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