Today we found this news post about Aion Online concerning the security of accounts. One of the biggest problems in the gaming industry is the illegal account-hacking, money trading and theft of personal information. Please continue reading below, because it touches upon these very sore subjects, and Scott Jennings (GM Luminary)’s advice.
Greetings, all. I’m Scott Jennings, otherwise known as GM Luminary, working with NCsoft’s Game Surveillance Unit I’ve been asked to take some time to speak for a bit on the fallout from the war that we’ve been fighting in our games against real money trading (RMT) companies and others trying to violate your account security, and how you can help in the fight.
Make no mistake—it is a war. One that you, our players, see the effects of whenever you play our games or visit forums related to our games. Many of you have noticed the decrease in bots, farmers, and gold spammers as a result of our efforts.
Our enemies are playing for high stakes—the estimated $2 billion
aion kinah that RMT companies earn off the back of game developers and players like you. And we are playing for high stakes as well—the right that we believe we have as a company, and you as players, to play games that are free from the corruption of in-game currency sales and all that results from that.
It’s a war that we’re committed to winning, but one that we’ll need your help with to achieve a real victory. I’ll describe first our responsibility to you to provide a safe and secure gaming environment, and then what you can do in return to protect
aion kinah.
With the increase in account compromises that we’ve been seeing in this past month, I think it’s worth taking a moment to review how seriously we here at NCsoft take your account security.
The news from Google regarding a serious, high-level attack by hackers on the most secure technology companies in the world is sobering. We continue to refine our systems to counter the various attacks that these
aion kinah companies employ. We have a team of security professionals with years of experience in massively multiplayer games and online security in Seoul, Seattle, Austin, and Brighton that is striving to make our servers as secure as they can be. Any vulnerability that is discovered is addressed and fixed.
For example, a thread on a third-party
aion gold forum this New Year’s attracted a good deal of attention. It detailed a list of security vulnerabilities that supposedly had been discovered on our account website, ending with the alarmist note that “the only responsible thing NCsoft can do is to shut off their website, as soon as possible.”
Despite the fact that this report occurred over the
aion gold, when the majority of NCsoft employees were home with their families, our security team responded immediately with
buy aion kinah testing and analysis of the erroneous concerns that were raised. As a result of the point-by-point testing and analysis, our security team concluded no critical vulnerabilities had been demonstrated or identified, but our security team continues to research, to monitor closely, and to implement security improvements to address any potential weaknesses raised.
We’ll continue to audit our systems, and you will
buy aion gold dramatic changes in the next few months. NCsoft views account security as a very important matter.