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Posted April 08, 2019
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richlind33: Feeling sorry for a sheep-dipped "journalist" that whinges about gay frogs is kind of sad, bruh.
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rtcvb32: Because we all know that a 5 minute skit, is all he ever does...
/sarcasm
Someday the irony of what you just said will hit you hard. ;p
Posted April 08, 2019
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MadalinStroe: I've never had this happen on any of my hundreds of accounts across the Internet.
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PixelBoy: ....>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Either they share their accounts or something, or they use such passwords which even a child could crack, like a person called "Sam", having a username "Sam", having a password "Sam".

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Hey, how did you know?
Posted April 08, 2019
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aRealCyborg: Also were your email and gog acc have the same passwords?
This would be a major weakness, so if one source is hacked they are all hacked..

Hence my password generator makes every password complex, and different.

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richlind33: Someday the irony of what you just said will hit you hard. ;p
How? You have no clue what he is about or talks about.
Posted April 08, 2019
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PixelBoy: ....>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Either they share their accounts or something, or they use such passwords which even a child could crack, like a person called "Sam", having a username "Sam", having a password "Sam".

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Sam2014: Hey, how did you know?
found it written on a piece of paper i bet!
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rtcvb32: How? You have no clue what he is about or talks about.
I think this sums it up nicely for the uninitiated.
Post edited April 08, 2019 by Sachys
Posted April 08, 2019
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aRealCyborg: Also were your email and gog acc have the same passwords?
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rtcvb32: This would be a major weakness, so if one source is hacked they are all hacked..

Hence my password generator makes every password complex, and different.

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richlind33: Someday the irony of what you just said will hit you hard. ;p
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rtcvb32: How? You have no clue what he is about or talks about.
You're sending that fat bitch money??? o.O
Posted April 08, 2019
How and why?
Posted April 08, 2019
That's strange.. the same 3-4 people all have 'low rated' regardless of post content.

Hmmm... TinyE? I wouldn't be surprised. I've had every one of my posts been downvoted for 3 months straight before regardless of content/context.


That and TinyE has just outright cursed me out because i'm me.
Post edited April 08, 2019 by rtcvb32
Posted April 08, 2019
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rtcvb32: That's strange.. the same 3-4 people all have 'low rated' regardless of post content.

Hmmm... TinyE? I wouldn't be surprised. I've had every one of my posts been downvoted for 3 months straight before regardless of content/context.

That and TinyE has just outright cursed me out because i'm me.
yeah i get down rated all the time us e d to care, now i dnt if people wanna waste there time finding myp osts and down voting them just shows how sad these people are
Posted April 08, 2019
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Down voting? No such thing:)
Posted April 08, 2019
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Darvond: I see this thread's already gone to the trash can, let's see what it is actually about.
It's been there since the OP imo. No proof of anything, no source just telling people to panic. Ridiculous, unbelievable. Thread can be closed there's nothing left to say. Hello troll and goodbye.
Posted April 08, 2019
tbh above poster is right ofc if theres no credible source hes obviously some angry steam user or fortnite player just trying to entice fear into our fellow GOG users, ofc changing your password to something strong is good advice so take it, but this is needless worry
Posted April 08, 2019
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toxicTom: Ok that makes sense. Then the target would be users who have a linked payment method and don't check their accounts too often (otherwise new gift code purchases in the order history would become obvious pretty quickly).
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satoru: On Steam you can more easily target 'useful' people by offering "FREE TF2/CSGO/DOTA ITEMS AND GAMBLING" to get users more likely to have 'juicy' things you want. Aka your victims are self selecting to already have things you probably already want as a scammer.

On GOG there's no real good way to determine a 'good' target. Thus scammers are likely going to use large scale blanketed approaches such as using previous email/password attack spreadsheets to just spam the hell out of GOG users and just see which ones stick and just happen to have wallet or a saved payment method.

I predict large scale hijacking of GOG accounts once Cyperpunk 2077 gets a firm release date as scammers try to flood shady cd key shops with giftable copies of the game.
You are obviously right about this, and the only way for CDP to protect the integrity of GOG accounts is to make the Cyberpunk 2077 release a 1 year Steam exclusive.

Right? lol
Posted April 09, 2019
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richlind33: You are obviously right about this, and the only way for CDP to protect the integrity of GOG accounts is to make the Cyberpunk 2077 release a 1 year Steam exclusive.

Right? lol
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/gifting_of_the_witcher_3_wild_hunt_temporarily_unavailable_fix_in_progress/page1
Due to a very large number of fraudulent transactions coming in, we have had to disable the gifting option for three items: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Expansion Pass, and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Game + Expansion Pass.

We are working to clarify the problem and prevent further fraudulent transactions from being made.

We will make gifting possible once more as soon as this issue is resolved
Again with the Witcher 3 GOG was shown that frauders will go to where there is money. The Witcher3 was worth money and they exploited GOG for it.

They've stopped doing it because GOG accounts dont have value.

Steam already has to deal wtih fraud on a global scale and has lots of internal tools to deal with it because they are, unlike GOG accounts, actually of value to fraudsters and are under attack 24/7/365.

When Cyberpunk 2077 gets announced and pre-orders are available on GOG, you can bet frauders are gonna look at GOG accounts and wonder "how can we make money from GOG's default really terrible default security profile on accounts". Most users wont have 2FA enabled on GOG unlike on Steam where it's required in order to do trading, which is the most valuable mechanism to extract value.

History repeats itself if one ignores it.
Posted April 09, 2019
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Okay I'm back.

Sorry. I was busy all day with my hacker army making scripts to single out users, downrep them, and take over the forum.

What did I miss?

Oh god, don't tell me I missed the tin foil hat party!
Post edited April 09, 2019 by tinyE
Posted April 09, 2019
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tinyE: Oh god, don't tell me I missed the tin foil hat party!
thats not until the 27th
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