Guild Wars 2

Today I logged in and I was greeted with a notification saying “Please consider changing your password”

Why did I get this? Is my account password too weak? Is it vulnerable to hacking? Or do passwords have to be changed now and then to keep account security high?

Crothen.2687:

Today I logged in and I was greeted with a notification saying “Please consider changing your password”

Why did I get this? Is my account password too weak? Is it vulnerable to hacking? Or do passwords have to be changed now and then to keep account security high?

Well, first off all I didn’t get this message. How did you get it? Was it a log-in news message? or like a error message you had to click away? or was it an ingame email??

I can’t tell you if your password is too weak. I tend to pick famous songtext lines as my password. one I didn’t use but as an example is:
Hijmyaticbhmnscmm
This sounds maybe redicilous. But watch the first letter of every word in the next songtext.
’
Hey, I just met you,
And this is crazy,
But here’s my number,
So call me, maybe?
’

You second question is if it is vulnerable for hacking. Well this I cannot tell you either. There are some basic rules to follow.
a: Use an unique password (don’t use it for anything else, specially not GW2 related websites or other mmorpg’s.
b: Use an unique emailadres. Best is to use a webmail based one like gmail. use a different password to log into that emailadress.
c: keep computer security serious by making sure you have your virusscanner and firewall up to date and up and running.
d: do not store your password in a document on your hadrdrive. If your roommates/housemates can be trusted make a hardcopy if you need it, or store it on a usb-drive you keep with you (best is to memorize it off course, but rule a and b makes that more difficult).
e: only use the password to log into the game or this website (check the adress everytime you log in here)

Your last question is if passwords needs to be changed from time to time for account safety. The asnwer is that it is advisable. but again this depends on your situation. at my job we have to change it every month, so most passwords are curently ending with 10 (October).

In this case, I wouldn’t wait for an answer and change it just to be sure. If there are no other people reporting this message you might want to ask support why you got the message. But most off all, in this case I wouldn’t wait and change it now.

Sorry for a long text to give a small answer, but wanted to misuse your question for a lecture bout account security

I’ve also gotten this message and I don’t use my p/w anywhere else, and there’s no way it’s considered weak. Not freaking out at all but I’d really like to know what is up with that, it’s slightly concerning..

It may just be like some buisness setups, where everyone that has server access has to change their password every 90 days. Except in this case it just suggests you do so and doesn’t force the matter.

Though I imagine if that was the case there would be a lot more people seeing it.

I also had this appear. It’s probably just ArenaNet asking people who hadn’t changed their passwords in light of the amount of hacking going on to do so, just as a precaution. If your account was compromised, you would have received an e-mail saying that there was an attempted log-in on your account.