Guild Wars 2 Prioritizing Account Hacking and Theft Over Other Support Requests

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 The developers at ArenaNet have posted a new status update for players of Guild Wars 2, informing players about their acknowledgement of the account security problem and the recent rash of hacks that have seen many players lose their game accounts.

According to the studio, hackers have acquired “lists of email addresses and passwords stolen from other games and web sites, and collected through spyware, and are systematically testing Guild Wars 2 looking for matching accounts.” The breach, says ArenaNet, comes not from the game itself but from external sources.

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