Origin hacked

Clicky for those that are lazy

Same here.

I dont ever have one.....

same

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lol, same case here :D and this BF is only a copy, that i won.

ORIGIN dude, not STEAM

they cant stole the game away from the acc anyway.

except that information was never abused since it's encrypted and they can't do anything with it. so 'worse' is subjective, since here they actually lock you out

Lol. I'm using different passwords for like 8 accounts. And then use a replicate password for sites I don't care about/don't buy things on/never visit.

I just went to make sure I was. Turns out I have an "old" version of their account from playing Battlefield Heroes when it was in beta with one of my buddies. So I upgraded to the new junk since it was sitting there anyways and wanted to make sure the password was a throwaway, and my info was safe.

I think you meant to say "I'm glad I'm a Steam fanboy" which itself would be kinda funny. I'm sure you aware of this, but Steam was hacked last year.

"We learned that intruders obtained access to a Steam database in addition to the forums. This database contained information including user names, hashed and salted passwords, game purchases, email addresses, billing addresses and encrypted credit card information"

Source

Hopefully you don't have a PSN or Battle.net account as well!

(P.S. If you fail to grasp that the person I quoted is being hypocritical as the site we're on requires you to have Steam which was actually hacked with confirmation from the owner, then please do not reply especially a special someone as I've done you a favour by removing all of your nonsense)

Now if we take a moment to think about this logically.

If it is true that Origin was hacked and that is why accounts are being accessed then that means a few things. Either all the passwords were not salted and hashed or the database was accessed quite some time ago and they've taken some time to crack them. The first situation is a huge mistake by EA and the other is unlikely as the monetary gains from the time invested wouldn't be worth it. I also don't believe Origin would hide the fact they were hacked as Sony was hit with a class action lawsuit despite it being dismissed.

I believe there is most likely a flaw somewhere whether it be in the password retrieval or the logging in process. With all of the promotions and freebies at Origin over the past few weeks I wouldn't be surprised if they were even all phished as the majority of the claims seem to be isolated to NeoGaf.