Major Activision Hack Reportedly Compromises Over 500,000 Call of Duty Players (forbes.com) 17
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Forbes: According to reports, more than 500,000 Activision accounts may have been hacked with login data being compromised. The eSports site Dexerto has reported that a data breach occurred on Sunday, September 20. The credentials to access these accounts are, Dexerto said, being leaked publicly, and account details changed to prevent easy recovery by the rightful owners. Activision accounts are mostly used by players of the hugely popular Call of Duty franchise.
"This is a substantial breach," Martin Jartelius, CSO at Outpost24, said, "in parts, the clean-up will be a large undertaking for Activision, we can only hope backups allow restoring original contact data, resetting access and managing the users who still cannot regain access which should be a smaller group." Changing your password, if you still have access to your account, is vital, as is changing passwords at any other site or service where you use the same password. This should be to something long and strong, the use of a password manager will help you here. Developing...
"This is a substantial breach," Martin Jartelius, CSO at Outpost24, said, "in parts, the clean-up will be a large undertaking for Activision, we can only hope backups allow restoring original contact data, resetting access and managing the users who still cannot regain access which should be a smaller group." Changing your password, if you still have access to your account, is vital, as is changing passwords at any other site or service where you use the same password. This should be to something long and strong, the use of a password manager will help you here. Developing...
Unfortunate... (Score:1)
So what (Score:1)
What are you going to do with a million 12 year old kids fake names and KDR records?
I suppose it would be interesting to see how many account have MINECRAFT set as a password.....
Finally! (Score:2)
A hack that affects my family... my kid's accounts are in jeopardy to the tune of tens of dollars. I doubt I'll sleep a wink.
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Well, unless your kids have used the same passwords and user-names elsewhere....
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i have heard that they have call of duty black operations
Forbes?!? (Score:2)
Why the FUCK are you linking to FORBES for news about the hacking of game accounts?!
If you were talking trash... (Score:1)
If you were talking trash in cod, they know who you are and where you live. Expect visitors.
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aiming issues
Passwords Not Hashed or Encrypted Then? (Score:2)
They're saying change your password which implies those are stored in the clear or, at best, with a weak hashing algorithm. Is there some reason this is necessary in 2020? The article moans about the lack of a a two-factor authentication facility but surely securing the password system should have a higher priority.
and activision customer service (Score:2)
Pitfall (Score:2)
Is it still safe to play Pitfall?
Passwords are hard. (Score:2)
changing passwords at any other site or service where you use the same password.
What decade is this? Who does that? Do they not read the news?
This should be to something long and strong
My next password will be 'ImDownToGetTh3Fr1ction0N'