Hacked on Xbox Live. Hacked on iTunes. Wrongly banned from Steam, which took 2+ weeks to clear up. Digital services! Woo!
This is blowing my mind that a company like EA can let this happen through their security (at least I'm assuming). I guess I need to read through all these posts in this thread and do some searching, figure out exactly what precautions I need to take.
There's no evidence that there's an issue with EA's security. FIFA is being used because the in-game items can be flipped for real money.
That definitely blows.
Since dd is supposed to be the future, shit like this will get more and more prevalent.
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Removing all credit card and Paypal details, and keeping a MS Point balance of zero in between purchases seems like the best defense.
difference is, with my account being flagged for being a XBL beta tester, as soon as the tech looked up my account i was forwarded to a english speaking tech support guy who was able to understand what i was telling him without having to use dummy terms.
Not cool you special treatment for being a beta tester. I'm not mad myself, I just realize how lame it is to treat other customers better just because they are associated with the company somehow. Discounts and such are one thing, but customer service related to being hacked should be equal on all levels.
I think it's perfectly reasonable for a beta tester to get preferential treatment if their accounts have access to things on the network that a normal account wouldn't, might be information that needs to be protected. (I don't know if this is the case or not.)
I watched half of that video and I have literally no idea what he was talking about.
I don't even know what all those screens mean or what they were. Can you sum up what is actually going on?
It's a YouTube video with someone waffling nonsense in an awful radio voice with 'funny' on-screen captions.
As if we haven't seen thousands of those before.
That's what I do. Give them nothing and you are safe. Sucks that we can't have comfort in keeping a balance of points in case we want to buy something out of the blue. I always spend all my points as I add them.
Got a 2800 points card yesterday and today I bought Trials:Evo, Missing Link DLC, and Walking Dead Ep.1 all within 5 minutes. Pre loaded the two arcade games by getting the "trials". I then added the points and bought the arcade games and then bought Missing Link DLC since it was 2 GB and I'm not able to get it before buying like arcade games. So I had a balance for literally mere minutes and they dwindled in those minutes as well.
Best tip would be to use a unique password for your xbl account.
Use prepaid points cards only (never ever give MS your credit card number - sending $100 notes in the post would be safer)
Buy points only when you need them. Enter the codes only when youre going to use them.
Preferably, use the points when a sale is on so you can minimise the number of left-over points on your account.
I work on the assumption that MS have a bad system that will get hacked some day. So I just make sure I have as little to lose as possible.
Was hacked last week. Because I am paranoid post Sony I had only 1600 pre-paid points in my account (no CC).
They bought Trials and some shitty BMW game. I found out I was hacked when I went to buy trials and saw it was already purchased. >.<
Was refunded an extra 300 points and got to keep trials. All in all good experience.
Thanks.
Nothing for you to damage control here. He only mentions Ultimate Team accounts.So a 'hacker' is claiming there's an exploit in Fifa 12 from which he can hack XBL accounts? I'm shocked.
Anyway, video seems suspect, not buying it.
No worries.
Have you added your credit card number to your console at all? If not, keep it that way.
Going by what you said above, youre probably going to be fine barring incredibly bad luck (ie someone hacking your account just as you add points to it?).
Just use prepaid xbox live gold cards if/when you renew your subscription.
edit: also, if youre buying old disc DLC, check to see if there is a "Game Of The Year" edition of the game in question (eg Red Dead Redemption, Fallout 3, Batman Arkham Asylum). Some of them have the content on the disc and others come with a code for that extra content, cutting out the need for using points in many cases.
I changed my account recovery options to include 10 separate email addresses. That way, you cannot add another without clicking a link from one of those 10 accounts. I think this prevents the attack but I'm not positive.So. Is there anything you can do to further secure yourself?
Nothing for you to damage control here. He only mentions Ultimate Team accounts.
This appears to have happened about a month before EA finally updated UT security.
Maybe one day EA will add security questions to Origin accounts as well.
I got hacked this past weekend. FIFA12 and all. My credit card on file is expired so they didn't charge anything but they took >4000 Space Bucks. I plan to call MS today, are they replacing points from this?
They tried to buy MS points with the expired card and that failed.
Yes. You also keep any content that the hackers bought using those points, which can be a nice bonus, unless it's fifa gold shite.
Yes. You also keep any content that the hackers bought using those points, which can be a nice bonus, unless it's fifa gold shite.
7 months? Christ, I hope you demanded some form of compensation.