Guild Wars 2

I just logged into my client and before I could hit “PLAY” that message was in red above the news box. What causes this message to pop up, should I be concerned?

Obviously I’m changing my password, but I’m just a bit concerned!

Anet keeps a list of all the passwords that hackers try combining with email accounts to hack into the game and they prevent players from using those passwords. Most likely, your password has recently turned up on that list. As a rule of thumb, you should have a unique password for your e-mail and another for your game. You can use whatever you want for forum sites and other stuff, but those two need to be used for only one thing.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/mike-obrien-on-account-security/

In the coming weeks we’ll ramp up this call for players to change their passwords, and may require a password change for those users who haven’t already voluntarily changed their passwords.

EDIT: Oops, ninja’ed.

I noticed it showed up for me after the PlaySpan hack (GW1 uses this for it’s cash shop), and I have a GW1 account linked to GW2 so I figured it was a precautionary measure by Anet to limit the potential damage.

It’s also good to change your password every so often, anyway.

Akhet, there’s a update note from massively article saying GW and franchise wasn’t affected:

http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/10/10/security-breached-in-playspan-hack-multiple-games-affected/

Falunel’s post is likely the reason for it — meaning those who aren’t even at risk for being hacked are being asked to change passwords anyhow.

At the moment, I would not change the password. I did and am now locked out of the game. No verification email, old password does not work, forgot password link is empty, and yes the password is/was unique.

Well Anet?

I would suggest posting in the Account Issues forum.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/account

They’d certainly would be able to help you out there.

I got the same message and I have a unique password and haven’t had any login attempts from anyone but me, ever.

I assumed it was just a reminder that comes up every so often.