Comments on: RU server accounts hacked – again…

By: 15.1.2014 | For The Record

15.1.2014 | For The Record — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 16:25:37 +0000

[...] the account theft reported earlier on RU server, Wargaming actually decided to compensate those, whose accounts were [...]

By: Arcanum

Arcanum — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 16:38:30 +0000

As I previously said, there are no gifts from WG.

By: King Tiger

King Tiger — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 15:59:25 +0000

I do not know how many of you played WoW but same thing actually happened at Blizzard Company years ago,when they invented a thing named “authenticator” so they encouraged some people to buy the product otherwise their accounts will get closed ,due to suspicious activity.Same thing happening at WG now and i’m sure they will sell a device like this (or app for iOs or Android) to prevent such a thing,otherwise they will just simply ban your account because of “security compromise” issue.

That’s how companies work now,leaving all the burden to the shoulders of their customers so they won’t take any responsibility when “something” happened to your account.

By: Staniz Tkachenko

Staniz Tkachenko — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 09:37:41 +0000

They were not hacked, they were blocked to prevent hack.

By: rabiesdog

rabiesdog — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 08:00:28 +0000

ExoNut, i would be worried if i ever heard of a gaming account of WOT type beeing screwed up in the way you describe by such a security breach.

By: jrt5

jrt5 — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 06:31:18 +0000

Blizzard has also problems with lot of stolen accounts so they issued their authenticator – generator of numbers like banks are using. Player must fill both password and generated number. Its save and the authenticator application is now free on cell phone. WG should start thinking about the same stuff.

By: error312

error312 — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 02:07:28 +0000

For example i write comments here using gmail account. Therefore FTR is “third party site” using gmail, and many other, authentication. Mostly only email adress (name) is shared so there is nothing to worry about (usually).

By: ouchthathurts

ouchthathurts — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 01:03:50 +0000

Interesting. So why are third party sites using WG authentication getting the e-mail address, as well as the user name?

By: Kyeaah

Kyeaah — Mon, 13 Jan 2014 21:33:38 +0000

WG RU was __not__ hacked.

“На одном из сторонних ресурсов…” doesn’t mean that an unnamed third party got their hands on the passwords.

It means that a third party website which used WG RU authentication got compromised and only the e-mails and their corresponding user names were stolen. That is bad because someone who would like to steal a certain account now knows the associated e-mail address.

By: SuperSpy

SuperSpy — Mon, 13 Jan 2014 21:04:45 +0000

If something like that happens on EU server, I guess they will want me to prove that its my account. How am I supposed to do that ?