Submission + - Have you been the victim of FIFA hackers on Xbox L (venturebeat.com)
Kwirl writes: Just a few weeks ago, my Xbox Live account was 'hacked' similiar to the author of the linked story, and like the author, I have had little support finding answers about why my account, and thousands of players like myself, had our accounts recovered, our bank accounts drained, and our gamerscores increased by FIFA players.
In my case, as a long time EA gamer and Xbox user, they had merged my XBLA ID with my EA account for their various online platforms, trusting them is my fault, I know, but the convenience of managing my games in one location outweighed the likelihood of someone getting my account from either Microsoft or Electronic Arts. Or so I thought then.
My XBL account shared password and email information with only one other source, EA — No one got that information from phishing, and my computer was secured beyond the levels of the average user, as well as regularly swept for trojans/malware/spyware/keyloggers/etc.
How do I go about finding out answers when both EA and MS cut and paste response to everyone of the thousands of victims who ask is 'Sorry, suckers get hacked all the time, change your password.'
When the 'hacker' recovered my gamertag from microsoft, why was my billing and account information provided to that person? If the person who recovered my account from microsoft been forced to re-enter my bank card information, there is a fairly strong chance that this would never have happened.
Why did Microsoft and EA both protect themselves with anti-class action measures in their EULA after being hacked by Lulzsec if, as they claimed, no dangerous information was lost?
A quick google search of any combination of the words 'EA', 'Xbox', 'FIFA', and 'hack' will pretty quickly let me know that I am not alone in dealing with this incident, but none of the corporate parties involved will acknowledge any culpability.
I don't like the MS/EA defense of 'It must be your fault, you got phished' — but since I don't have access to any of the details regarding who/what/when/where/how my account was compromised, I feel like I don't have a choice but to let them keep walking on me, and the number of google responses to issues like this is more than a little worrisome to myself.
Google reveals thousands of victims of these incidents, but how many /. users have gone through this experience, and what questions do you have?
In my case, as a long time EA gamer and Xbox user, they had merged my XBLA ID with my EA account for their various online platforms, trusting them is my fault, I know, but the convenience of managing my games in one location outweighed the likelihood of someone getting my account from either Microsoft or Electronic Arts. Or so I thought then.
My XBL account shared password and email information with only one other source, EA — No one got that information from phishing, and my computer was secured beyond the levels of the average user, as well as regularly swept for trojans/malware/spyware/keyloggers/etc.
How do I go about finding out answers when both EA and MS cut and paste response to everyone of the thousands of victims who ask is 'Sorry, suckers get hacked all the time, change your password.'
When the 'hacker' recovered my gamertag from microsoft, why was my billing and account information provided to that person? If the person who recovered my account from microsoft been forced to re-enter my bank card information, there is a fairly strong chance that this would never have happened.
Why did Microsoft and EA both protect themselves with anti-class action measures in their EULA after being hacked by Lulzsec if, as they claimed, no dangerous information was lost?
A quick google search of any combination of the words 'EA', 'Xbox', 'FIFA', and 'hack' will pretty quickly let me know that I am not alone in dealing with this incident, but none of the corporate parties involved will acknowledge any culpability.
I don't like the MS/EA defense of 'It must be your fault, you got phished' — but since I don't have access to any of the details regarding who/what/when/where/how my account was compromised, I feel like I don't have a choice but to let them keep walking on me, and the number of google responses to issues like this is more than a little worrisome to myself.
Google reveals thousands of victims of these incidents, but how many
