Note on accounts being hacked

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kamiknx#1162 wrote:

Change your password is the only actual advice. Everything else you said is irrelevant.

I don't think so. This was good advice for an unknown situation.

None of this advice would have stopped any accounts from being compromised, not even changing the password. The Threat Actor wasn't taking passwords, they were reseting them, then deleting the log, according to Jonathon.

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green_bloodshed#1928 wrote:

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kamiknx#1162 wrote:

Change your password is the only actual advice. Everything else you said is irrelevant.

I don't think so. This was good advice for an unknown situation.

None of this advice would have stopped any accounts from being compromised, not even changing the password. The Threat Actor wasn't taking passwords, they were reseting them, then deleting the log, according to Jonathon.

The devs literally explained what happened. And if people change their passwords there's nothing the hackers can do anymore.

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kamiknx#1162 wrote:

The devs literally explained what happened. And if people change their passwords there's nothing the hackers can do anymore.

You misunderstood something.

The person(s) had access to one of the GGG Admin accounts. Therefor they did not need any password for the player accounts that got "hacked".

They simply used an admin tool from GGG to set a new password for a player account and then delete the log entry for that change. Players changing their password would have done nothing in this particular case.