With so many people let go would it be advised to change our password? I’m sure a lot of people had access to a lot of sensitive information.
I’m not implying that anybody would do anything it would just be a precaution.
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I can assure you with 100% certainty that no one that was let go at Activision Blizzard has any interest in your account whatsoever, let alone who you even are.
(accedentally deleted my post trying to edit, and it wouldn’t let me re edit it…great forum software…)
Why are you “sure” of that? That would be in flagrant violation of any number of laws and best practices regarding information security.
Passwords are not stored as plain text . And with salt even 2 sames passwords look completly different. Depending on used algo, it could takes years to crack your password on core-i7.
Example : $2a$11$iU/UeSQzIOajmHdXsn4oVuybpeQIDnm.v1MO/R7vDqEdf15IZy38.
It’s never really a bad idea to change your password.
Go for it
I’m getting a huge kick out of the notion that the moment an employee finds out they’re laid off, they decide to download the personal information of every WoW user and then dox them for no reason.
Implausible as hell, but that’s why it’s hilarious.
Assuming they can even see our passwords at all. It’s possible they have no access to that and can merely reset it if need be.
That being said, you all should have the one time password app on your phone anyway as a secondary measure.
No.
That isn’t the way “user passwords” work.
On their end, you would be encrypted. That is to say, let us say (as I’ve heard before) that a real GM does something with your character to check something out. That GM is not entering your login and password to check something out with your character. This would be an older example, I remember a forum user giving where a real GM asked permission to check something out with their character.
So, in my example, the legit GM in this circumstance would be just pulling up that guy’s character and checking the thing/bug. The GM would not be doing:
bobweinstin3589@notarealemailaddress.com
and using the password
barenucklebrawler357839Y@113
As always, the employee only has access to the information which they NEED for their job; In 2019, that would not be information they need for their job.
Also, the possibility of “vengeance” would make such information closely guarded. It would make a company look bad, if a player of the game/thing was dating someone at Blizzard and that person could take revenge on them when they broke up.
No need. Nobody at Blizzard can see any of our passwords, not even the ones in Customer Support. Passwords are encrypted and stored as a salted hash. Meaning even if someone got the passwords, they would take an insane number of years to even come close to decrypting.
As for any other info in your account, the average person at Blizzard can’t access that either. They have to be in a job position that requires it, have access to the tools, and be physically at their computer on the Blizzard campus. Everything done by that staff member is recorded.
When Support needs on an account, they have special tools that let them in, they don’t use your password anyway.
Without being on campus, they can’t access those tools., even for those who were approved to have access.