Catwho wrote:
The people who were genuinely hacked, via key loggers or social engineering, have a chance at account recovery.
The people like a poster here a few days ago who gave away their account info to a friend prior to it getting hacked.... not so much.
The people like a poster here a few days ago who gave away their account info to a friend prior to it getting hacked.... not so much.
This early in the game life, the people who were compromised are likely those who already have their email/password combination compromised from other sources and the "hackers" just used their purchased list on this game.
Look up the GuildWars 2 article on account security, it goes in pretty easily understood detail of the email/password trading world, and how these people just purchases 1000s of names and just try them out on every single game. Those people who use the same email/password on multiple services are the first to get hit when these games launch. Happened with Diablo 3 and with Guild Wars 2 within weeks of release. And has begun happening on FFXIV at around the same time period.
Give the users a week or two to accumulate something, then log in and steal it all. Seems to be the MO when it comes to these people and MMO releases.