Scattered reports that EA Origin may be hacked

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Rock Paper Shotguntl;dr version: some users are reporting in forums and to Eurogamer that their EA Origin accounts were hacked, getting email notification of password changes they didn't initiate and at least in one case, a user was able to identify a .ru email address it was changed to

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Do console users have to create Origin/EA accounts to access the ME2 Cerberus Network or ME3 MP as well? I think they do.

Battlelog (Battlefield 3) users are probably affected by this as well.

Dealing with Origin support is a Kafkaesque nightmare so, seriously, change your password to something you don't use anywhere else and shoot for 12+ characters.

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dont forget to add a random CAPS to that password and for uber safe measure a number and a possible random special character like ! ~ %.

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I had some trouble with my new password not working and apparently some special characters don't work in Origin passwords.

I also had another problem where my new new password wasn't working. It was because it was over 16 characters. Origin truncated everything over 16 chars and didn't mention it. When I entered in the first 16 characters, it worked. :P

SIGH.

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I also had another problem where my new new password wasn't working. It was because it was over 16 characters. Origin truncated everything over 16 chars and didn't mention it.

I had the SAME PROBLEM, trying to change it both through Origin and SWTOR.com (before they took the servers down). No warnings it was too long, the happy "your password has been updated!" message, but then I couldn't log in with the new password.

Really, EA, you are the SPECIAL ones.