I woke up to an email about a login attempt from the city of Hefei in China. Good job, ArenaNet, for blocking that. Of course now I'm annoyed though. I don't actually trust security emails. I don't like to click links, especially links for things that are going to ask for my password. So rather than click the account/guildwars2/account/login-attempt?[unintelligible garbage] link, I instead went to my account using the ArenaNet site. Except I can't seem to find the link for managing unauthorized login attempts. That's bad.
To add to the worry I wondered if that meant they also had my email, or more accurately, my email and password. So then I changed my email password too. Now it's a very strong password, though not hard to remember. It is, however, annoying to type. Maybe that will stop the hackers. While I was there I figured I'd check out the two-step authorization feature, but that appears to rely on phone calls or texts, neither of which are free for me, so I'd bankrupt myself as fast as if I gave you all my ATM PIN.
And to think, I'd started off the day so well. Well-rested, cold almost gone, with some shiny clean dishes waiting to be put away. And then the internets betrayed me. Though ultimately, as with all things, it is the fault of China. I will have to yell at some classmates about this today. They'll only be feigning complete confusion.
[edit] I also have an email from Blizzard about suspicious account activity. Thankfully that has an authenticator. But now I'm very worried. GW2 could have been random, but two accounts makes me think I need to run a t-test.
To add to the worry I wondered if that meant they also had my email, or more accurately, my email and password. So then I changed my email password too. Now it's a very strong password, though not hard to remember. It is, however, annoying to type. Maybe that will stop the hackers. While I was there I figured I'd check out the two-step authorization feature, but that appears to rely on phone calls or texts, neither of which are free for me, so I'd bankrupt myself as fast as if I gave you all my ATM PIN.
And to think, I'd started off the day so well. Well-rested, cold almost gone, with some shiny clean dishes waiting to be put away. And then the internets betrayed me. Though ultimately, as with all things, it is the fault of China. I will have to yell at some classmates about this today. They'll only be feigning complete confusion.
[edit] I also have an email from Blizzard about suspicious account activity. Thankfully that has an authenticator. But now I'm very worried. GW2 could have been random, but two accounts makes me think I need to run a t-test.
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lol...what the? I hope your GW2 and WoW accounts are still fine! =O
GW2 I was able to do a password reset. Blizzard locked my battle.net password and when I tried to do a reset I couldn't remember how I'd formatted my secret question and got locked out for too many failed attempts. I'll have to call them to get it sorted out. It's ridiculous to handle it that way; I have an authenticator even if my password is lost it's not as if my account is truly compromised.
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