Until then, no Autolog for NFS:HP either. I wonder if it affects pre-Origin games like The Saboteur as well. The guy's video I posted said he was lucky because he'd used the Facebook authentication as well and the hijackers had forgotten to change it (or it can't be removed, perhaps?) but if you're account's been broken into and your username and email have been changed, what hope do you have of getting anything back yourself?įucking pathetic work by EA. Because whoever it was changed both my account name AND my email address, I have no way of knowing what they were set to. It also exposes a huge, gaping flaw in EA's security system, given that:Ī) there's no mention in the email of what it was changed *from*ī) there isn't a confirmation asking for the email address to be changedĬ) people trying to raise cases about this with their online help/chat thing are getting knocked back because they have their own dates of birth wrongĬlick to expand.I don't think you've been affected by this though (or at least, not exactly the same thing) because you can actually use your existing email account to reset your password. I didn't have anything that could've been guessed about my account (such as the password, security questions etc.) yet my account has been certainly hijacked. So, if you haven't checked in on your Origin account recently, you should login and make sure that everything is working fine. This guy could probably offer a better explanation of what's happening (though it goes for 20 minutes, so don't get too excited): I can't recall if there was anything incredibly sensitive in there (I don't remember using a credit card at all with that account, just used it to register keys bought from Amazon etc.) but exactly the same thing is happening to a LOT of people. Of note is that they're all literally within the last few days or so. They're just the ones I could find using their very limited search option on their forums. Here are some links to threads on their forum from within the last few days that contain individual cases of this exact same thing happening: Possibly coinciding with the ability to change an Origin username at will (though I'm not sure exactly when this was implemented). Had to create a new, dummy account just so i could raise a case about my old account because basically *all* the details must have been changed in it. Tried getting in today, Origin doesn't recognise my username. Didn't think anything of it (I first saw the email when I woke up for work early on Friday and quickly forgot about it).
Story goes, received an email very early Friday morning last week (around 4:00am Australia time) about my email address being changed for my Origin account.
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