(edited by Julischka Bean.7491)
Gold Star for customer service
ArenaNet Communications Manager
This morning I logged into the game to play a bit before going off to work. Problem was I couldn’t log in. It seems that sometime while I was sleeping an email authentication thingy had been activated on my account. I logged into my email and found nothing about such a thing being activated. I went to the official help site and couldn’t log in there and couldn’t log into the forums either.
I was in full blown panic mode. I was positive that I had been hacked and the email associated with my account had been changed.
Being locked out of everything, I could not find an email address to contact support, but “support@guildwars2 .com” came to mind so I tried that.
At five something in the morning central time, I received a reply almost instantly.
An Angel named..well not sure I can name names on the forums..but his name begins with M and he was at work at 3:00 in the morning Pacific time.
This Angel asked me to send in answers to some questions which luckily I knew the answers to.
I guess the answers pleased him because he sent me a link to change my password and he did something to get rid of the authenticator because once I changed my password I was able to log in with no further problems.
Words cannot express my how I felt when I logged into my account and found it 100% intact
Gaile, hunt down “M” and give him a big hug from me.
It all took less then an hour…outstanding work.
Lisa-Very, very, very happy.
Hi Lisa. Awesome story, and I will find our friend “M” and I will be sure to include him on my Christmas Cookie List, too!
Thanks for letting us know things are ok for you now!
Communications Manager
Guild & Fansite Relations; In-Game Events
ArenaNet
Glad to hear you did not loose anything but I suggest you change all your passwords (email account and GW2 account) immediately.
Just because all your stuff appears to be intact does not mean your account has not been compromised. Ask CS directly if they have detected any unusual log in activity on your account and change your email (and GW2 account) passwords.
Something similar happened to me recently and I suspect there is some reason accounts are being hacked, yet nothing is being removed (potential gold sellers trying to find semi- abandoned accounts to use?).
Fate is just the weight of circumstances
That’s the way that lady luck dances
(edited by Brother Grimm.5176)