HipKat Posted August 15, 2020 Share Posted August 15, 2020 Recently, my account on another forum was accessed and the Admin there recommended I take advantage of the 2FA option that (I didn't know) they have enabled for that site. With this kind've thing becoming more and more of an issue online, have you ever considered adding it here? Quote “There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind, never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jc856 Posted August 16, 2020 Share Posted August 16, 2020 13 hours ago, HipKat said: Recently, my account on another forum was accessed and the Admin there recommended I take advantage of the 2FA option that (I didn't know) they have enabled for that site. With this kind've thing becoming more and more of an issue online, have you ever considered adding it here? By accessed, do you mean hacked? And if hacked, it was from outside the site? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woody Posted August 16, 2020 Share Posted August 16, 2020 If someone wants to go through the trouble of hacking my Range account they can have it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HipKat Posted August 16, 2020 Author Share Posted August 16, 2020 13 hours ago, jc856 said: By accessed, do you mean hacked? And if hacked, it was from outside the site? Yeah, it was originated in India.. Site admins really did a lot of digging to find out when and where it was accessed. My Lifelock account alerted me to the breach, originally. The problem with this - and probably wouldn't be here - is that it's a gaming site and people, me included, have links to our Discord, Steam, YouTube, Origin, etc sites, which the attacker can use to access those as well and some of those have payment info on them. In my case, it was YouTube he tried to get access to and I pay for YT Red to eliminate ads and unlock YT Original Content. 1 Quote “There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind, never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woody Posted August 16, 2020 Share Posted August 16, 2020 4 hours ago, HipKat said: Yeah, it was originated in India.. Site admins really did a lot of digging to find out when and where it was accessed. My Lifelock account alerted me to the breach, originally. The problem with this - and probably wouldn't be here - is that it's a gaming site and people, me included, have links to our Discord, Steam, YouTube, Origin, etc sites, which the attacker can use to access those as well and some of those have payment info on them. In my case, it was YouTube he tried to get access to and I pay for YT Red to eliminate ads and unlock YT Original Content. I went through some similar crap with my Playstation account. Some jackass from Riyadh attempted to get into my account like fifty times. My phone blew up because I had 2FA enabled on that. My opinion is, when money is involved, definitely use 2FA. But for small time sites like the Range, I wouldn't worry about it. Money doesn't change hands here and I don't think any of us store sensitive information here outside of maybe an e-mail address. All I do is make sure that I use a unique password on this site, so that it can't be used elsewhere should it get compromised. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jc856 Posted August 16, 2020 Share Posted August 16, 2020 My password is “password”. Not many people use that one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woody Posted August 16, 2020 Share Posted August 16, 2020 Unique as in my Range account and Paypal account don't have the same password. That's what gets most people in trouble, using the same password for every account they have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiterateStylish Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 On 8/15/2020 at 7:11 AM, HipKat said: Recently, my account on another forum was accessed and the Admin there recommended I take advantage of the 2FA option that (I didn't know) they have enabled for that site. With this kind've thing becoming more and more of an issue online, have you ever considered adding it here? We have the functionality, just never turned it off. Figured most people would be confused. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HipKat Posted October 22, 2020 Author Share Posted October 22, 2020 1 hour ago, LiterateStylish said:We have the functionality, just never turned it off. Figured most people would be confused. When I wrote this I have never used it before but now I have a couple of different places and TBH, it doesn’t really seem like it’s really necessary. It’s really kind of a pain in the ass when you have to log back into a site and then pull up the app to get your code Quote “There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind, never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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