7 Bad Hacking Moments All Gamers Suffered Together

Blizzard getting hacked was bad from a player’s perspective. More than once, the instance mentioned in the video being one of them, my account was one of many that was affected and I recovered my account only to find everything I had in game had been sold and all my gold sent to someone else. It happened so many times I just got sick of WoW and quit.

Author — NecrochildK

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I remember when Steam was hacked, and my account was stolen, it took steam a year to get my account back and there was no apology for the delay, no compensation, they, in fact, threatened to ban me because I was increasingly (and understandably) frustrated with them for ignoring me for over a year about my stolen account.

Author — Trace P.

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Great video but in my opinion this is the example of 7 stupid people / groups. If you have the ability to hack, why going for games? Exposing corruption does so much more..and it is everywhere.

Author — navisoul

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I remember one day when me and my friends wanted to play csgo and every time we started a lobby 4 or 3 random accounts joined instantly all with almost the same names and profile pictures and when we clicked on view their steam profiles it just kept loading and we werent able to acces them. When they were in our lobby we were unable to start a game, we all tried makeing separate lobbies but the bots kept joining also when they joined a text apeared in chat saying this stunt was made to get valves attention to fix the hacking in the game. We were unable to play csgo that day.

Author — Alkiss

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In Late 2013 - Sega of Japan decided to IP Block the South East Asian and Chinese Gamers from accessing Phantasy Star Online 2, which was quickly bypassed after Free VPNs and Proxy Services went live (and still used to this day). However in June 2014, during the 2nd Anniversary celebration of the game, a massive DDOS occurred which completely halt the servers and this completely stopped all players from playing the game. SEGA was also forced to bring down the official website of the game after tracing the fact that the hackers used it as a backdoor to access the game servers. The attack went through for months and service was restored in Mid October 2014. The culprit never made any public claims about the attacks and has never been caught.

Author — Oshi Watcher

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I work at a datacenter where people host online games (some are Facebook related) and we have had to null route traffic to some of these servers. The customers let us know that they were orchestrated when they refused to give the perpetrators bitcoin. Most were too small time to afford such ransoms.

Author — Sight Beyond Sight

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