One of my accounts was recently "hacked" and or invaded without my authorization. They got into a house of mine and stole some goodies. Luckily I must of logged in as they were doing it so they didn't take as much as they could have. FYI: Character Name Was " (Removed by Moderator to comply with the Stratics ROC) ".
So to make a long story short I couldn't see how this person who ever he may be and probably will be reading this thread and chuckling it up to himself. Got into my account, being that the account was only a few months old, had no passed owner, only had 1 game time code added to it etc etc...
So I then of course proceeded to change all my passwords and all of that.
Frustrated and pondering on how this man accessed my newbie account. I was at work last night, funny part is I actually had just gotten to work. Which gives me reason to believe it's someone that knows me so whoever you F*** You Are Karma's a bit** and will return the favor. But to continue on I get a text message on my phone basically telling me someone's trying to get into my email now and they locked it up nice nice for me to prevent any access.
As I proceed to change that information I go into my origin account to change some information around in their and realize.... theirs a privacy setting there that's automatically sets your origin profile to the public when your account is created. Well me being stupid and yes this is my own fault I do realize that and only blame myself, but I am sure some of how have the same mistake and I only hope to prevent you from having this situation happen.
My account name was my profile name, and I assume my profile being public listed my email address as well which their for when I changed my password to my account.... the PoS, tried to get into my email address. The password wasn't ridiculously hard once again my fault it was just holding a house for me I rushed making the account etc. So he either got lucky with a guess, used a program to crack password, or once again the Origin system fails and he knows a backdoor way into logging in peoples accounts once they have your Origin User name and or Email.
So to put in end to my lovely morning story log into your Origin account. www.origin.com its the same master account user name and password as you would use to login to the www.uo.com account management. Change your profile name if it is set to something similar to your account name, and go here and set your profile to private. Hope I save some people the aggravation in drama of it ever happening to you.
So to make a long story short I couldn't see how this person who ever he may be and probably will be reading this thread and chuckling it up to himself. Got into my account, being that the account was only a few months old, had no passed owner, only had 1 game time code added to it etc etc...
So I then of course proceeded to change all my passwords and all of that.
Frustrated and pondering on how this man accessed my newbie account. I was at work last night, funny part is I actually had just gotten to work. Which gives me reason to believe it's someone that knows me so whoever you F*** You Are Karma's a bit** and will return the favor. But to continue on I get a text message on my phone basically telling me someone's trying to get into my email now and they locked it up nice nice for me to prevent any access.
As I proceed to change that information I go into my origin account to change some information around in their and realize.... theirs a privacy setting there that's automatically sets your origin profile to the public when your account is created. Well me being stupid and yes this is my own fault I do realize that and only blame myself, but I am sure some of how have the same mistake and I only hope to prevent you from having this situation happen.
My account name was my profile name, and I assume my profile being public listed my email address as well which their for when I changed my password to my account.... the PoS, tried to get into my email address. The password wasn't ridiculously hard once again my fault it was just holding a house for me I rushed making the account etc. So he either got lucky with a guess, used a program to crack password, or once again the Origin system fails and he knows a backdoor way into logging in peoples accounts once they have your Origin User name and or Email.
So to put in end to my lovely morning story log into your Origin account. www.origin.com its the same master account user name and password as you would use to login to the www.uo.com account management. Change your profile name if it is set to something similar to your account name, and go here and set your profile to private. Hope I save some people the aggravation in drama of it ever happening to you.
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