Someone hacked my origin account

Biohazard · 31 Aug 2013 at 14:30

And left this behind;

Do you think this idiot would leave his real photo and name?

I'm going to do my best to find out.

(Account has been restored to me, password changed and email address verified to my Hotmail.).

He's changed some security questions though;

I can't grab the text, anyone speak Russian?

kokuten · 31 Aug 2013 at 14:37

it translates to "where i live"

Omaeka · 31 Aug 2013 at 14:38

I think he lives in a food factory, try putting that in.

CaptainRAVE · 31 Aug 2013 at 14:38

How random! Was it an easy password to guess?

kokuten · 31 Aug 2013 at 14:40

apparently it translates as ukranian so :S

Biohazard · 31 Aug 2013 at 14:43

Password was easy, yes, my fault.

He's changed the account password again, I'm changing it back. etc

Why doesn't he just retarget the email address?

On the phone to EA now. Don't use it now, but I have a few games in there.

What a knob cheese.

kokuten · 31 Aug 2013 at 14:45

can't you find out what the email address was changed to?

On Holiday · 31 Aug 2013 at 14:48

Origin really does need to do more to allow users to protect their accounts.

Biohazard · 31 Aug 2013 at 14:55

Phoned EA support, spoke to a Colin, he was awesome.

Spent ten minutes running around changing stuff and him doing stuff, it was all very CSI like, and I've got the account back and secure.

He couldn't understand ukranian either so I don't think it took much convincing.

Reason email address hadn't changed is that's the only thing you can't do manually, and the hacker hadn't approached them yet.

No chance now.

I'm going to try my best to see if that's his real name/face. Little mother******.

~>Dg<~ · 31 Aug 2013 at 15:43

who would goto all that trouble and use there real name :confused:

Destination · 31 Aug 2013 at 16:07

~>Dg<~ said:
who would goto all that trouble and use there real name

Perhaps he doesn't know how to spell 'their'?

Biohazard · 31 Aug 2013 at 16:23

~>Dg<~ said:
who would goto all that trouble and use there real name

Perhaps someone who wanted it for themselves, I don't know, it seems strange to stick a photo up either of yourself or someone else so?

They've been playing BF3 as recently as June, and I haven't touched it since last year.

Suarez7 · 31 Aug 2013 at 16:29

Biohazard said:
I'm going to try my best to see if that's his real name/face. Little mother******.

Don't waste your time, what exactly do you think you'll be able to do?

Kyo · 31 Aug 2013 at 16:32

Glad you got it sorted, really surprised how they go in.

Did EA put it down to purely a weak login credentials or something else?

StriderX · 31 Aug 2013 at 17:32

Probably a hacker looking for an account to use.

I use BF3 as evidence.

Biohazard · 31 Aug 2013 at 18:28

Suarez7 said:
Don't waste your time, what exactly do you think you'll be able to do?

Just the novelty of the name/photo and random interest. Not had a chance yet.

Biohazard · 31 Aug 2013 at 18:29

Kyo said:
Glad you got it sorted, really surprised how they go in.

Did EA put it down to purely a weak login credentials or something else?

I didn't really ask come to think of it, I just assumed he had used brute force.

Hadn't touched the account in ages.

RumbleBee · 31 Aug 2013 at 18:40

Is it possible someone else hacked the account and sold it to this dude, who then thinks nothing of adding his name and photo.

lee1101 · 31 Aug 2013 at 18:47

Scumbag. I had the same thing with my Apple ID. No matter how many times I changed the password and questions they kept hacking in.

KIA · 31 Aug 2013 at 18:54

Unlikely to be brute force.

@OP Do you reuse passwords?