Massive hack last night Why it must be a bug

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Hotcooler wrote:

I would put it that way, every developer of any kind of software that uses passwords and stuff should assume that their clients are morons, have passwords like 12345 e.t.c. and provide some protection to them, like bind to ip, some sort of 2 factor authentication or support that can revert changes made by hackers. If you dont do that, you loose clients/money and well generate not that good of a buzz around you. So yes, it's partly players fault, since I'm pretty sure I had the password since closed beta and it might have been the same that was used on Origin that got hacked a while back (since password was pretty complex : upper and lower case letters and numbers, it must have been leaked somewhere, or login session intercepted somehow e.t.c.). I accept that I might be partly at fault here, but devs are too.

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ionface wrote:

I'm just gonna throw this out there, what if some unscrupulous orb farming company in some part of China got a list of credentials, then began to use them last night?

I'm gonna throw this out there too, hacking is not the same as theft.

I'm also going to say Chris was right about everything. He said hundreds of passwords were stolen from users, not the servers, and it's a small drop in the bucket targeting random people instead of the top percentage of wealthy players.

You don't really know if or how you've been compromised, while it's actually Chris' job to be able to prove that he hasn't.

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Daiug wrote:

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ionface wrote:

I'm just gonna throw this out there, what if some unscrupulous orb farming company in some part of China got a list of credentials, then began to use them last night?

I'm gonna throw this out there too, hacking is not the same as theft.

I'm also going to say Chris was right about everything. He said hundreds of passwords were stolen from users, not the servers, and it's a small drop in the bucket targeting random people instead of the top percentage of wealthy players.

You don't really know if or how you've been compromised, while it's actually Chris' job to be able to prove that he hasn't.

If they have any brain at all they will leave any famous people alone.


Why?

Because, unfortunately, we are second class players. It's good eh, we usually don't spend too much money and our chance to get other players is so minimal compared to the streamers.


If they hack Nugi/Kripp i'm unfortunately sure that GGG would instantly fix this problem and roll back. If the streamers quit they lose too many potentials new clients.

And if people stop playing why would you bother scamming items that you cannot sell?

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Lask001 wrote:

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Daiug wrote:

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ionface wrote:

I'm just gonna throw this out there, what if some unscrupulous orb farming company in some part of China got a list of credentials, then began to use them last night?

I'm gonna throw this out there too, hacking is not the same as theft.

I'm also going to say Chris was right about everything. He said hundreds of passwords were stolen from users, not the servers, and it's a small drop in the bucket targeting random people instead of the top percentage of wealthy players.

You don't really know if or how you've been compromised, while it's actually Chris' job to be able to prove that he hasn't.

If they have any brain at all they will leave any famous people alone.


Why?

Because, unfortunately, we are second class players. It's good eh, we usually don't spend too much money and our chance to get other players is so minimal compared to the streamers.


If they hack Nugi/Kripp i'm unfortunately sure that GGG would instantly fix this problem and roll back. If the streamers quit they lose too many potentials new clients.

And if people stop playing why would you bother scamming items that you cannot sell?

This is silly and terrible logic. The reason they don't get hacked is because they have secure systems.

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gnerex2 wrote:

Impossible man GGG have been compromised , look around u how many players have been hacked ???