Guild Wars 2

Not sure if this is the right section, but today I received an email saying somebody from Japan was trying to access my account, I am from Canada so i quickley changed my password. Its good to see that feature works well.

But what I dont understand is, why doesent Anet simply make an option in your account managment that adds a option to “Block all login attempts from outside your country”. Or even better yet, block all login attempts from outside your zip/area code? Then it wouldnt matter if somebody had your password, unless they lived in the same area as yourself.

I too had my account compromised from a Japanese IP. I am in the US. I logged onto my account to find all my items gone along with my 2g that I collected along the way to level 44…. Luckily I was able to change the password. I hope this will not happen again.

Thats a shame you lost all that stuff, I was fortunate not to have anything stolen. I would like to see an option that would block everybody from even remotely gaining access to our account if they live in a different country.

Did your account got susspended by arena net due to the hacking attempt? If so for how long?

No my account was not suspened, the hacker did not manage to gain access to my account, I received this email from Anet,

“Authorize Login Attempt

A log-in attempt from the following location is currently awaiting your authorization.

Address: 118.6.159.220
City: Tokyo
Region: 40
Country: JP

I didnt click on the link to allow it, thats when I ran a full system scan then changed my password.

Its good to see they have some sort of security to prevent this, but the emails are just not enough, if they have your email, and your password is the same as your email account, they can authorize themselfs. I have a seperate email address I use for gaming only, along with different passwords. I suggest people do the same!