Origin Accounts Hacked?

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Logged on my PC this morning, Origin boots up and got a notification I was already logged on in another PC. Concerned I checked my settings and sure enough my security question was changed to Russian text and Dragon Age was recently purchased with another game attemped to buy. I was able to delete my CC info from the account and have disputed the charges.


The main concern is I very rarely use Origin, only have played online a few times a year + ago, and do not have a friends list active on it. Charges were on 11/20 and I've made a ticket and disputed the charge on my card (they denied they second attempt to purchase). Check yourselves people.
 
Something happened to me like this before with origin too. I caught it in real time when all of a sudden I got a notification that someone was using my oriogin account elsewhere. I remote logged that account and reset my password.
 
iNvid02 said:
PSN, 2K, windows live and origin were supposedly hacked recently
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That was quite likely a fake. There were a lot of completely nonsensical passwords that absolutely no one would ever allow in their services and a lot of the e-mail addresses weren't even tied to anyone's accounts in those services.
 
I had this happen a few months ago, and I had to call chat support to fix it. Lesson learned. Some guy from Russia apparently hacked it.
 
I presume by disputing the charge you mean you have spoken to your card company and they will look at doing a charge back?

That's pretty risky as EA are known for banning people automatically for that even when you were in the right to charge back. Just be aware.
 
Thanks, I've forgotten my secret question answer, sigh, but I changed my password just incase. I have my PS3 account linked, I changed the password for it recently, would I need to update it in origin too?
 
My account was hacked 2 weeks ago. The person bought Fifa 15 and fifa ingame items $170. I deleted my CC info and got full refunds through origin chat. The account was also tied to a Xbox one (i don't own one). I deleted that too.
 
I actually had two failed purchases on my account that I had nothing to do with. I enabled two-step verification and changed my password.
 
Had the same thing happened to me last year but I installed origin because of humble bundle with Dead Space.
I had absolutely nothing on my account, no CC info, no game bought.

It was a bit tricky to switch back to my language, changed my pass and instantly enabled 2 step verification.
 
It happened to me once. I logged in to claim the in the house game and noticed that I had more achiev points than usual. Guy had been playing Dead Space 3 co-op. Too bad I didn't let him finish his playthrough.
 
Origin's security is absolute garbage, even with 2 step security. I've had my account hijacked 3 times, a friend of mine had his hijacked 5+. You just have to accept it, unfortunately.
 
Hm.. Came back upstairs and now it's giving me the same "logged in from another computer" error. And all the EA and Origin websites and functions seem to be down, so I can't even log in to change my password or do anything. This is suddenly worrisome. Either that, or their service is such shit that it's telling us our accounts are hacked whenever their servers go down.
 
This happened to me about a month ago, then I changed my password and it happened again like a week ago (I had taken my card off the first time and canceled it just to be sure) I disputed the charges with my bank and thankfully got my money back, didn't waste time trying to talk to EA's customer service. The emails I got were also in Russian so yeah I'm going to assume at this point that certain things within Origin have been hacked.
 
This is why everyone should use (and every service should offer) two factor verification. Some services have even started using mobile authenticators like Battle.net has been suing for years which is even better.
 
Happened to me as well, a few years ago. I didn't have any credit card info there, thank god, but frankly I've never bothered to really go in and fix it either. Just changed my password.
 
Chanser said:
Enable 2 step.
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everytime I try to do that on origin it tells me it cant send the email, try again later >_>

and I dont mean now with the DDOS attack, I mean for the last several days (since basically installing origin for DA:I)
 
Probably people who reaaaallly want those games for free and since they can't be pirated yet, they'll steal people's accounts and steal their money to buy them with.

Saint Gregory said:
This is why everyone should use (and every service should offer) two factor verification. Some services have even started using mobile authenticators like Battle.net has been suing for years which is even better.
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I removed that authenticator (physical one, not mobile) and can't even re-attach it. Had it on my account for years.
 
I got mine hacked about 6 months ago and someone bought like $300 worth of SWTOR credit. Disputed the charges, put a stupid long password and added mobile authentication.
 
I logged earlier today and changed my pass & security options and... yeah, they're not going to get a lot of people sticking with 2-step when it takes 5min+ for that verification code mail to be sent.
 
Jedi2016 said:
Hm.. Came back upstairs and now it's giving me the same "logged in from another computer" error. And all the EA and Origin websites and functions seem to be down, so I can't even log in to change my password or do anything. This is suddenly worrisome. Either that, or their service is such shit that it's telling us our accounts are hacked whenever their servers go down.
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Having the same problem. Got the message but can't access security page so can't change password. Well if I remember right luckily I don't have any CC info in origin...

Edit. Heh. Just after I posted this I could access the security page again and change my password.
 
That sucks, but thanks for posting. Reminded me that I hadn't enabled two step on my account
 
Rhaknar said:
everytime I try to do that on origin it tells me it cant send the email, try again later >_>

and I dont mean now with the DDOS attack, I mean for the last several days (since basically installing origin for DA:I)
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Try resetting your password and see if that'll send an e-mail? If so, get in touch with Origin support about it?
 
As someone who has experienced EA's shitty security on accounts firsthand, I can say that they are the reason I never attach my credit card to any account I have on the internet, ever.
 
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