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EA Origin accounts are being hijacked
EA Origin accounts are being hijacked. Numerous people including Digital Foundry’s Richard Leadbetter have been emailed by Origin with news that their account’s password or email address or both have successfully been changed. Thing is, nobody asked or gave permission for them to be.A thread on NeoGAF highlighted a handful of similar cases from the EA support forum. The thread also documented what happened next: people were locked out of accounts and had a frustrating time with EA support trying to get them back.Richard Leadbetter told me he spoke to EA support but the helper didn’t know anything about the issue. Nevertheless, EA support is “escalating” the matter.Read more…
