BF2S Forums Hacked Account? Get it back as follows...

reefl3x wrote:

My father worked in the CIA believe it or not and knows quite a bit about passwords and codes etc... So he always told me small things about what passwords should and shouldnt be.

Im not calling you a liar, but I cannot believe how many people on these forums claim to have parents/relatives/friends who work for EA or DICE, the CIA, MI5, in the army, PM of the UK, President of USA, director of the FBI, a multi-billionaire, football managers or players or even the leader of Al Queda or whatever.

On topic: Hope you get your account back

Nooooo!

Next time you see me online, Ill be hiding out in a Mexican bar.

ps: Dont tell Dog the bounty hunter.

dh124289 wrote:

Ricardo,

Not doubting what you and others have said happened...

but....

HOW THE F*CK DID THE HACKER CHANGE YOUR BF2 ACCOUNT PASSWORD???????????

A friend of mine wanted to change his and we spent ages looking online trying to find a way to change the BF2 account password. All we could find were forum posts with people complaining that EA do not allow you to change your BF2 account password. Gamespy account pass can be changed, yes, but not your BF2 account.

If y'all don't believe me, try it for yourself. See if you can change your own BF2 account password. I'd love to hear how you did it, if it can be done.

Davie

Login to FilePlanet with the e-mail you used for your BF2 account and the password, then change it from there.

RicardoBlanco II wrote:

bob_6012 wrote:

Sucks ya got your account hacked, hope ya get it back allright. As other people have pointed out try and make your password something that can't be guessed that easily, make it like insanely long or something, that seems to do the trick for me.

Cheers dude, I have changed it to something more appropriate now. To be honest I really didn't think someone hacking my online gaming account was anything to get worried about. Some people are just sad I guess..and I don't think it was as simple as him guessing my password if I understand correctly what Prodie and duk0r are saying.

me 2, i mean who wants to steal my account??, my stats aren't that good, therefore i suspect someone from the forums *Shifting Eyes* or perhaps my worst victim.

Owned.

From my little Angel...

"Hi again Richard.

Fixed J  I have changed the email in the system back to what it was – what you need to do the minute you get this email is reset your password immediately!!

We aren’t sure exactly how this is occurring yet, because it is not happening to many users, and not happening to regular GameSpy clients, just certain people that play BF2.  We were thinking some sort of forum, website etc that might be in common between these people.  If someone is a forum admin or server admin and people are using the same passwords to log into forums as they do their game… well we know where that could lead.  It could even be a common server that some people are playing on.  Servers download things to people’s systems, so an unscrupulous person may hit people with Trojans via this method.

If you have any forums sites or regular servers that you play on, let me know.  I’m jotting them all down in the hopes we can find some common thread between people.  Also if you can copy and paste the account email that was sent to you from us with the users IP address would also be helpful.

If you have any further problems please don’t hesitate to let us know.

Kind regards

Aileen"

The little beauty. Everything works fine now and my estimation of Gamespy has gone up considerably. If anyone else has their account hacked just do what I did. It'll only take a week or so and you won't have to go through EA's online 'support'.