Social club hacked, Change passwords

Techen · 21 Apr 2015 at 08:09

SOURCE:
http://www.overclock3d.net/articles/software/rockstar_social_club_accounts_may_be_compromised/1

I lost my account yestarday, First time in 8 years of gaming that Ive my account to anyone. They only did it with my Social password and never gained access to my email address.

Wait times to recover accounts now rising to 1 to 2 weeks and am helpless with these people messing with my account. Its great....

Josh · 21 Apr 2015 at 08:14

"may" have been hacked.

Also that came out 5 days ago, anything from the past day or so?

MadMouse101 · 21 Apr 2015 at 08:15

Thanks

Done

Techen · 21 Apr 2015 at 08:16

Rockstar wont admit anything just check the volume of hack requests on the support rockstar page. Its clear there was a serious issue of leaked accounts.

Josh · 21 Apr 2015 at 08:18

Techen said:
Rockstar wont admit anything just check the volume of hack requests on the support rockstar page. Its clear there was a serious issue of leaked accounts.

Not doubting it bud, I have changed mine twice in 2 days.

But the annoying thing is the article you linked has "may of been compromised", and nothing from R*.

They need to let people know for sure if this has happened, bad form by R* if it has and they have kept quiet.

Techen · 21 Apr 2015 at 08:19

Well as I said am shocked they can change my password without letting me approve it vie my email. If they had this system in... well lets just say Id still have my account.

xGBHxPegasus · 21 Apr 2015 at 08:26

So no confirmation apart from a few websites "claiming" that social club has been hacked?

neoglow · 21 Apr 2015 at 08:28

I can't even remember my social club password lol. Last time I used it was with Max Payne 3.

Thanks for heads up OP.

Raumarik · 21 Apr 2015 at 08:53

xGBHxPegasus said:
So no confirmation apart from a few websites "claiming" that social club has been hacked?

Private companies rarely publicly admit it unless there's already strong evidence in the public domain. Likewise they very rarely if ever report themselves to the ICO where as public sector (at least in the UK) do it far more often.

Also if RSS was hacked it probably happened weeks or months ago, rather than days and people are only now noticing a trend or problem as the gathered info is shared with other groups or sold on.

RoyMi6 · 21 Apr 2015 at 10:52

All the more reason to get a password manager set up guys!

anything I don't mind · 21 Apr 2015 at 10:58

I did not receive my activation email and I was unable to reset my password or change my password as didnt know my password. This from saturday.

BluD · 21 Apr 2015 at 11:06

cheers done

Witcher1979 · 21 Apr 2015 at 11:09

Yeah done mine as well just in case, not worth the risk really, cheers.

K1LLSW1TCH · 21 Apr 2015 at 11:17

I'll do mine in a minute, fortunately even if it has been compromised it isn't a password that I use for any other website.

weyland yutani · 21 Apr 2015 at 11:23

Techen said:
Well as I said am shocked they can change my password without letting me approve it vie my email. If they had this system in... well lets just say Id still have my account.

This. Just changed mine now as a precaution but no authentication email was needed -shocking tbh.

Strange thing is I only need to log in when I go to the rockstar website - when launching the game through steam it logs me in automatically and I have never entered my pw into the social launcher

cainer · 21 Apr 2015 at 11:28

password changed

Witcher1979 · 21 Apr 2015 at 11:34

Do consoles owners have to login as well or just PC owners. I know you don't on the PS3, just wondered about new gen consoles.

anything I don't mind · 21 Apr 2015 at 11:45

it was in my spam folder, stupid.

joelk2 · 21 Apr 2015 at 11:48

what about people who use google link to sign in? do i need to changed my google password aswell?

Drizmod · 21 Apr 2015 at 11:49

Wasnt this to do with people downloading a dodgy exe from Rockstar forums to get the game to work where they were getting a blank loading screen?