EA putting 'a lot of resources' toward preventing another 'FIFA hack' season
"We learned a lot from the experience. A lot of companies are suffering from this right now. There's a lot of sophisticated hacking happening in the gaming industry and it's a continuous battle," EA Games president Frank Gibeau told us during Gamescom. "We take it very seriously, put a lot of resources on it. The learning from the FIFA example last year has been incorporated this year. There's some incremental and additional things. I don't want to get too detailed because I don't want to tip our hand. Rest assured, we take it very seriously."
Gibeau said that EA did hire someone from Microsoft to add layers of security precautions and other anti-hack methods inside the publisher's products.
"You're never going to win this battle," said Gibeau, recognizing the company can only go so far. "The moment you declare victory, somebody will walk in and show you didn't. So you have to continuously stay on top of it and, most importantly, keep account integrity the first and foremost issue."
So, should consumers feel more confident this year that they won't be hacked?
"I hope that they do, and I think our performance will have to make them feel that way." He concluded, "We can promise it, but we have to actually show it."
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Source: http://www.joystiq.com/2012/08/20/ea-putting-a-lot-of-resources-to-prevent-another-fifa-hack-s/#comments
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MazurPosted:
Aced
Haha, Well ea is putting alot to it so i doubt it will happen again
I hope not because I'm going to be getting this one =O
AcedPosted:
MazurAcedMinecartAced I Never heared of the fifa hack session?
Yeah me neither. :/
haha wasnt xboxs account hacked or somthing
yeah people were hacking xbox accounts, my cousin got hacked but he was able to get it back
Haha, Well ea is putting alot to it so i doubt it will happen again
MazurPosted:
AcedMinecartAced I Never heared of the fifa hack session?
Yeah me neither. :/
haha wasnt xboxs account hacked or somthing
yeah people were hacking xbox accounts, my cousin got hacked but he was able to get it back
AcedPosted:
MinecartAced I Never heared of the fifa hack session?
Yeah me neither. :/
haha wasnt xboxs account hacked or somthing
CtrlAltDestroyPosted:
sun285 Just to clear things up:
The 'FIFA hacks' was when hackers targeted people who used ultimate team to buy player packs
They hacked the account (Xbox live) and took their credit card details.
that would suck.
sun285Posted:
Just to clear things up:
The 'FIFA hacks' was when hackers targeted people who used ultimate team to buy player packs
They hacked the account (Xbox live) and took their credit card details.
The 'FIFA hacks' was when hackers targeted people who used ultimate team to buy player packs
They hacked the account (Xbox live) and took their credit card details.
ImNotPhlegmAnymoreOKPosted:
They must of upped the security on this FIFA, if they're this confident. Why wouldn't they just done the same thing to 12 to stop the hacking the same way they are in 13? I don't get it. Oh well, I'm not a FIFA guy myself.
CearnsyPosted:
TheyTommyD Do they mean hacks as in Hacking your pro's rank, or as in accounts, or even hacking FUT? Didn't really get the gist of it :P
I think I remember something about FIFA accounts getting hacked.
Yes this also happened to me i was p*ssed hope its improved
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