Battlefield 2 stat security holes exploited
By old fashioned hackers
By Aaron McKenna: Tuesday 26 July 2005, 09:59
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.
Though we could probably say reams about EA and take this opportunity to dance on its grave for a bit, we won't. That would be Schadenfreude.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=24901
