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holy_war
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States3590 Posts
August 14 2011 03:16 GMT
#741
GOM made a huge and unfortunate mistake that caused inconvenience among many users, to which they apologized and already made then necessary security changes. GOM has been amazing to SC2 so far and we should continue to support them.
Rylaji
Profile Joined January 2011
Sweden580 Posts
August 14 2011 03:27 GMT
#742
So technically the only accounts on sites or such that are compromised are those where I use my email and that particular password both at the same time?
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LuckyFool
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States9015 Posts
August 14 2011 03:30 GMT
#743
Good thing my gom password was some hugeass random string of numbers that I never changed or used anywhere else.
YoungNeil
Profile Joined October 2010
Canada328 Posts
August 14 2011 03:34 GMT
#744
On August 14 2011 10:47 Meta wrote:
Once again I'm glad I've never paid for a premium ticket to watch the GSL. From day 1 I've maintained that it's a waste of money, and I'm glad I've finally been rewarded for my efforts.

Of course you haven't. This has absolutely nothing to do with money.
KDot2
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States1213 Posts
August 14 2011 03:37 GMT
#745
I will continue to support GoM and pay for the amazing games and countless hours of entertainment I get out of it.

urasyupi2
Profile Joined August 2011
United States810 Posts
August 14 2011 03:38 GMT
#746
Lol I saw this 6 days after and my GOM account was the same for almost everything.
hemeh
StyLeD
Profile Joined January 2011
United States2965 Posts
August 14 2011 03:42 GMT
#747
On August 14 2011 10:47 Meta wrote:
Once again I'm glad I've never paid for a premium ticket to watch the GSL. From day 1 I've maintained that it's a waste of money, and I'm glad I've finally been rewarded for my efforts.

You sound like a dick and probably are one.
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Weson
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Iceland1032 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-08-14 03:53:10
August 14 2011 03:51 GMT
#748
What's with the saving passwords in plain text? I thought Sony tought everyone that its a really really bad idea. Yet is not the last retard born... I'm getting tired of changing my passwords all the time because someone were lazy and forgot to add like 20 lines of code.
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Dox
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Australia1199 Posts
August 14 2011 04:00 GMT
#749
It saddens me to witness how many people fail to grasp the basic concept of internet security.

* People attempting to changes their passwords WHILE the database is being compromised.
* People complaining about the database being locked whilst this actually serves as protection for them.
* People who use different passwords for different services, and thus are totally unaffected, yet still acting like this is the end of the world.
* People who actually use the same password for everything. Really? Those people still exist?
* Aforementioned people changing all the passwords to their other accounts and yet still continuing to use a single password.

This thread is one huge, tragic reminder of how daft and hopeless people in general can be.
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urasyupi2
Profile Joined August 2011
United States810 Posts
August 14 2011 04:04 GMT
#750
Noooooo I am too late!!!!!!! ;(
Now I have to make another GOM account....
hemeh
Assirra
Profile Joined August 2010
Belgium4169 Posts
August 14 2011 04:09 GMT
#751
On August 14 2011 12:51 Weson wrote:
What's with the saving passwords in plain text? I thought Sony tought everyone that its a really really bad idea. Yet is not the last retard born... I'm getting tired of changing my passwords all the time because someone were lazy and forgot to add like 20 lines of code.

I think its because well hackers simply never bothered to hack game related companies.
When there was almost no risk to get hacked ppl simply don't bother with security.
After this whole Sony fiasco hackers suddenly started attacking a lot of sites and well it seems the security plain sucks since they never thought it could happen.
Assirra
Profile Joined August 2010
Belgium4169 Posts
August 14 2011 04:11 GMT
#752
On August 14 2011 10:47 Meta wrote:
Once again I'm glad I've never paid for a premium ticket to watch the GSL. From day 1 I've maintained that it's a waste of money, and I'm glad I've finally been rewarded for my efforts.

How exactly are you rewarded? By others people security info stolen?
That is just beyond sad.
photomuse
Profile Joined August 2010
United States102 Posts
August 14 2011 04:16 GMT
#753
This is another example of the reason to have at least two passwords (perhaps more) for your accounts you don't care if they get compromized (like GOMTV) and accounts that you do (like anything to do with money).

I don't blame Gom (although passwords should not be stored in plain text in general). In fact, they did something right by having payment via PayPal. Internet security is simply to complicated for every small shop to do it right. (Even big shops have issues). So, I'm sorry this happened, but not at all surprised.

Again...don't use one password everywhere.
nalgene
Profile Joined October 2010
Canada2153 Posts
August 14 2011 04:23 GMT
#754
On August 14 2011 12:42 StyLeD wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 14 2011 10:47 Meta wrote:
Once again I'm glad I've never paid for a premium ticket to watch the GSL. From day 1 I've maintained that it's a waste of money, and I'm glad I've finally been rewarded for my efforts.

You sound like a dick and probably are one.

great post... with such hostility...

It's a good thing he waited longer before he put any money into the system since earlier on they had security issues ( which had come to past eventually ).
On August 14 2011 13:11 Assirra wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 14 2011 10:47 Meta wrote:
Once again I'm glad I've never paid for a premium ticket to watch the GSL. From day 1 I've maintained that it's a waste of money, and I'm glad I've finally been rewarded for my efforts.

How exactly are you rewarded? By others people security info stolen?
That is just beyond sad.

Since he's not an early bird, he doesn't experience the bugs in the old system. It's like getting one of those early ipod things but then the next one has all those problems eliminated ( + significantly larger hdd size ) or most of it and improved upon.
On August 14 2011 13:09 Assirra wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 14 2011 12:51 Weson wrote:
What's with the saving passwords in plain text? I thought Sony tought everyone that its a really really bad idea. Yet is not the last retard born... I'm getting tired of changing my passwords all the time because someone were lazy and forgot to add like 20 lines of code.

I think its because well hackers simply never bothered to hack game related companies.
When there was almost no risk to get hacked ppl simply don't bother with security.
After this whole Sony fiasco hackers suddenly started attacking a lot of sites and well it seems the security plain sucks since they never thought it could happen.

It's possible that sony is just a big target and gom is highly unlikely to get attacked since it's less known.
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l3link
Profile Joined March 2011
United States2 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-08-14 04:28:50
August 14 2011 04:28 GMT
#755
Unfortunately I can confirm that my login information was used on August 10th (2 days prior to their claim that accounts were hacked) to access my xBox live account with the same login information as my GomTV account. Then, on that account, purchases were made worth ~$125. I would advise anyone that doesn't take this issue seriously to reconsider, as the information was distributed and used for malicious purposes.

My real point here, much like the previous post, is to note that if you use the same password for accounts which have access to stored credit card information, change the login and passwords! When these lists of information are sold, the account information is run on hundreds of sites to see if they can log into any of them, and if so, certain steps are taken to make a financial gain of that information. I never expected GomTV to disregard security and am disappointed in the hoops I had to jump through to restore my financial situation.

Damn it Gom. If I had any alternative to watching the GSL (without staying up until 4:30am...) I would have angrily gone to a competitor. Fix this now.
SxYSpAz
Profile Joined February 2011
United States1451 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-08-14 04:55:52
August 14 2011 04:52 GMT
#756
too bad i had to change all my passwords. I loved that password. put so much thought into it and used it for a lot of stuff

fare thee well perfect password. far thee well...

hope this doesn't mess with the site visits too much though. still love ya gom

Edit: wow, this seriously messed with some people. that's too bad. maybe this isn't so easily forgivable. i mean, i'm fine, but that's really too bad for some. Gom should take this really seriously.
Integra
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
Sweden5626 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-08-14 04:54:39
August 14 2011 04:53 GMT
#757
On August 14 2011 10:47 Meta wrote:
Once again I'm glad I've never paid for a premium ticket to watch the GSL. From day 1 I've maintained that it's a waste of money, and I'm glad I've finally been rewarded for my efforts.

This made zero sense... What does this have to do with you paying or not, you still had an account. If you payed or did not pay the outcome would be same. What effort did you make, according yourself you did nothing! What reward did you get, that the website got hacked or what? how can this possible be a rewarding experience for you?
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SxYSpAz
Profile Joined February 2011
United States1451 Posts
August 14 2011 04:58 GMT
#758
On August 14 2011 13:53 Integra wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 14 2011 10:47 Meta wrote:
Once again I'm glad I've never paid for a premium ticket to watch the GSL. From day 1 I've maintained that it's a waste of money, and I'm glad I've finally been rewarded for my efforts.

This made zero sense... What does this have to do with you paying or not, you still had an account. If you payed or did not pay the outcome would be same. What effort did you make, according yourself you did nothing! What reward did you get, that the website got hacked or what? how can this possible be a rewarding experience for you?

he probably thinks that the hackers got credit card info from the people that paid for membership. to anyone that thinks this, they were at least smart enough to equip that with another sites more trusted security (paypal i think), so no ones credit card info was leaked directly from the site.
Sembei
Profile Joined October 2002
Argentina48 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-08-14 05:17:14
August 14 2011 05:07 GMT
#759
...

I had the same passwords in BNET and GOMTV. Today I cant log in to neither of them, I've just changed my password in both using password reset..

I don't know if my BNET account was compromised... because I didn't receive a mail informing a password change.. but I tried mine and it said it was wrong.

I fixed it using password recover and change to a new one.. but I'm not really sure if they accessed my acount.
SwordfishConspiracy
Profile Joined December 2010
United States146 Posts
August 14 2011 05:13 GMT
#760
Passwords stored in plain text? wtf? Did they get a 10 year old to write their login system? Even basic piece of crap frameworks hash your passwords by default.

This sucks
SwordfishConspiracy
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