2010-02-13, 10:24 AM
(This post was last modified: 2010-02-13, 10:30 AM by MissingLink.)
Mazz Wrote:If you are the only person to have your registered email then you're pretty safe in this instance, just don't use it for any types of forum or blog, etc.
Not true unfortunately.
Numerous people in numerous threads have stated that the registered email is easily obtainable once game user ID and password are known.
In fact, one poster implied that all you need is in-game-name to retrieve email and full name.
Even if the hackers cannot retrieve hack or bypass the PIC codes, they can fall back to the hack the email and reset approach.
The only things left that may save you are birthday and unhackable email. If your account is over 2 years old, you would have had to use one of the big free hackable email domains like hotmail; they didn't allow just any ISP email. And if you were not of a paranoid mindset when you registered you may have used your real birthday.