very bad EA customer security
As a cloud and cybersecurity student, I can say it's pretty hard to hack a modern mobile phone, when it's 5 years old it's just game over, and even loading an image will get you hacked easily. but no hacker is going to do that much effort to only hack your EA account or any other, then it is a targeted attack. I can pretty much confirm it's all phishing now and unsafe practices no targeted hacks.
- Use a password manager (recommend Dashlane)
- When you register just enable 2FA then, which saves you a lot of time.
- Don't click any links in your mail, once they get you, you are on a list and your information is sold, you will receive a lot more scam and phishing emails.
- If you get a lot of junk emails, switch email
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I also don't think it's a data breach, one EA should have communicated that they've had now and know when that happened because that player information is possibly worth billions.
And as the law requires they have to inform their customers, the hackers also have to decode the hashes when salted is a pain to do taking a lot of time.What's also possible but unlikely is a security issue in linking the EA account to the steam account where a man in de middle attack is possible but don't think that is the case.
It would be also pretty difficult to do that.Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
My name was zeel and remember to keep your account secure
