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PSA: GameArena Hacked, Please Change Your Passwords

Unread postby News Portal » 24 May 12, 1:47 pm

Telstra's GameArena site announced today that their user database was recently compromised, and that the usernames and passwords of customers who log in with non-BigPond addresses (such as Hotmail, or Gmail) are likely to have been stolen. Since there's a good chance that a number of users of games.on.net may also be GameArena users, we'd like to take this opportunity to urge any members who have the same username/password combination at both sites to change it immediately. You can change your password via your user control panel.

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Re: PSA: GameArena Hacked, Please Change Your Passwords

Unread postby Slaine » 24 May 12, 1:48 pm

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Re: PSA: GameArena Hacked, Please Change Your Passwords

Unread postby Chucky » 24 May 12, 1:50 pm

Changed my password about two seconds before this thread popped up :P Not sure why I even bothered as I rarely venture over that way anymore.
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Re: PSA: GameArena Hacked, Please Change Your Passwords

Unread postby Village idiot » 24 May 12, 1:54 pm

Couldn't remember my old game arena account even if I tried, but I remember it was on my old big pond address, so I guess its safe.

Scary how often this is happening now though.

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Re: PSA: GameArena Hacked, Please Change Your Passwords

Unread postby PalZer0 » 24 May 12, 1:55 pm

I can't even remember my GameArena password. That's how often I venture over there.
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Unread postby Wrangl3r » 24 May 12, 1:58 pm

Well that's annoying
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Re: PSA: GameArena Hacked, Please Change Your Passwords

Unread postby Chucky » 24 May 12, 2:01 pm

Village idiot wrote:Scary how often this is happening now though.


Agreed, seems nothing is safe anymore :x
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Re: PSA: GameArena Hacked, Please Change Your Passwords

Unread postby exe3 » 24 May 12, 2:06 pm

I can't even remember if I even have an account with them. :S
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Re: PSA: GameArena Hacked, Please Change Your Passwords

Unread postby Cas Bitton » 24 May 12, 2:08 pm

exe3 wrote:I can't even remember if I even have an account with them. :S


If you are unsure, hit up this link asap! :)

http://www.gamearena.com.au/account/forgotten.php
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Re: PSA: GameArena Hacked, Please Change Your Passwords

Unread postby SaNE » 24 May 12, 2:10 pm

Pretty sure their password requirements were stupid so my password ended up being GAMEarenaISb@d or something alike, can't remember which e-mail account I used though.
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Re: PSA: GameArena Hacked, Please Change Your Passwords

Unread postby exe3 » 24 May 12, 2:11 pm

Ok I guess if I did have one it was with the Bigpond email we had. Cheers.
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Re: PSA: GameArena Hacked, Please Change Your Passwords

Unread postby InAUGral » 24 May 12, 2:27 pm

I did the password reset and was surprised to see it say that it sent an email to my address. I now remember I was signed up on game-arena many years ago for TF2 clan ladder competitions but that password would be one I sure as hell don't use anymore.
EDIT: I do hope mine did not get hacked as I am already getting annoying spam emails.
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Re: PSA: GameArena Hacked, Please Change Your Passwords

Unread postby Faint_Man_Australia » 24 May 12, 2:40 pm

Unlikely to be related but my Diablo 3 account which had the same login credentials was compromised today. Food for thought.
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Re: PSA: GameArena Hacked, Please Change Your Passwords

Unread postby diamondd » 24 May 12, 2:41 pm

what's GameArena?
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Re: PSA: GameArena Hacked, Please Change Your Passwords

Unread postby purehybrid » 24 May 12, 2:58 pm

gamearena still exists?! whaaat?!
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