EA - What happens when you dont listen to security issues

[Jonbo298]

A GROUP reminiscent of the good old fashioned type of hackers who would break into your system for the fun of it and then warn you of the security holes rather than turn your homepage into a porno site has struck at EA and the apparently insecure Battlefield 2 stats tracking system.

The game tracks players on certain official servers and racks up each kill, death and achievement to a central statistics tracking server on which players can see how they’re doing. It also unlocks more weapons for players to use as they rise through the ranks in each individual class of soldier.

This group claimed in a forum posting on Total Battlefield 2, here that:

“Well, what a wonderful few days it has been. Since EA didn't take the time to respond (or maybe even read) our emails about various stats-server security holes, it clearly showed us how much they care. Therefore, we came to the conclusion that modifying 5 million accounts wouldn't be that big of a deal.

That being said, accounts with ids from 40,000,000 to 45,000,000 now have all of their weapons unlocked.

What will be next week? Perhaps they will give everyone their Distinguished Service Medal, or maybe elevate everyone to the rank of Sergeant Major.

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=24901

Poor poor poor EA. Lets see how long it takes before they fix this. 1 month I say

[MuGen]

i don't think they will do anything, unless they undermine the integrity of the server or the game itself.

knowing EA, they are probably sitting there saying "..whatever.. so a couple million accounts unlocked their weapons... it would've happened sooner"

[Jonbo298]

They said this morning also after I posted that they are gonna "roll back" the stats to before the hack occurred.

But I doubt this will solve anything. They will probably just reapply their hack until EA gets a full fledged patch out