Stolen Gaming Credentials

The Symantec Connect Blog has details on Symantec's discovery of the credentials of 44 million stolen online gaming accounts, saying that the accounts were being validated by an automated program to determine which of these could be sold. They say: "This particular database server we uncovered seems very much to be the heart of the operation—part of a distributed password checker aimed at Chinese gaming websites." They say there are credentials for at least 18 gaming websites in the database, an inventory including about 210,000 World of Warcraft accounts, 60,000 Aion accounts, 2 million PlayNC accounts, and 16 million Wayi Entertainment accounts. Regardless of whether Chinese sites were the target, they conclude with this advice: "As always, Symantec recommends that you keep your definitions up to date in order to ensure protection against new threats. As an added precaution, if you are in possession of a gaming account from one of the websites listed above, an update of your password would not go amiss." Thanks Network World.
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The Asian gold farmers used to buy accounts to replace the ones that get banned. They've shifted to very aggressively hacking accounts and using them to farm gold instead. The number of hacked accounts is significantly on the rise.

This just happened to a friend/guildie the other week... Noticed him logged in, and later in the day, checked and found that he was raping the guild bank.. Kicked him, reported it, contacted the acct. owner...

Funny stuff is, he had a 200-250 or so miner on the acct, that the hacker lvl'd to 450 and started farming with...

The acct was renewed, and an authenticator added to it, but it still took only a few hours to get it shut down, and I think the owner got a few weeks game time out of it : )

-Alamar
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