I have seen similar cases before and they usually had the one and only reason for that happening - lack of care and caution from end-user.

I don't think we need to seed panic here.

In most of these cases (I won't afraid to say - in 99,99% of cases), users had their accounts shared with someone else or had a lot of malware on their PCs from visiting funny sites, watching pr0n and using torrents.

We have many new users from Steam, we have long-waited Witcher 3 release and we have summer, favorite time for hackers to reclaim stolen accounts. Of course it might make an illusion of sudden rise of hacked accounts, but it has quite a real reasoning here.

I'd guess it's more visibility + more accounts (due to witcher) -> more interest from the hackers and simply good deal of people using same passwords here as they did in 100 other places -> more thefts.

Sure, there's always a chance GOG is pulling a Sony, but I doubt it.

What I don't get is why bother stealing GOG accounts in the first place? They're useless, no keys to resell, no cards, no 'steam wallet', and games themselves are always available 'elsewhere'.

*glances beneath avatar*
Russian Federation! YOU'RE ONE OF THEM!!!

Sent a support ticket about this.... for what that's worth

Out of curiosity, I tried the procedure for changing password and you actually have to follow the usual stuff as GOG send an e-mail with a link in it to change your password so on this point, GOG is "normal".

Now for changing e-mail, I won't try but if someone is up to it....

Attached picture is the browser message when you start the password reset procedure

"Ahem" gifts.

That is for resetting the password. Changing password from the account pages does not require using email.

I think this is important too and I'm looking forward to a response.

OK, Well at least it made me change it :)

True, I didn't think of them in that context.

Unless this hits the videogame media (or a big forum like neogaf) i don't think that we will hear an answer...

so any confirmation, that there are really accounts hacked or is this just some guy having too much freetime?

The thing is that to contact media, you need a "story" so a few posts here and there won't make if you write them a direct e-mail that would need further research. I'm thinking of something but I'll wait tomorrow morning to see if one of the blue finally responds in a useful and informative manner otherwise, I'll go ahead.....

We should compile links to all the relevant threads in the OP.