Player of Guild Wars 2 have started to be presented with a big red banner upon logging in. This is to inform users that a mandatory password change is coming down the road. February 7 to be exact. From the official announcement:
“Account security is a very important topic for us. As ArenaNet president Mike O’Brien mentioned in this article on account security, one of the ways we protect your account is by creating a blacklist of passwords that have been used in the past by hackers to scan for accounts. As this blacklist has been very successful for protecting newly created accounts, we have asked all our existing customers to change their passwords.”
So not only will players have to change their password (which is a good idea every few months or so anyway), but they will have to change it to one that is not a well know one used by would-be hackers on ArenaNet’s black list.
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