According to reports, there was a massive hacker attack against Activision, in which data from more than half a million “Call of Duty” accounts were compromised. So if you are currently playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare or the free-to-play version of Warzone: well-known dataminers and leakers recommend changing your password.
Update 22.09.: Activision has denied this report. No “Call of Duty” accounts are said to have been compromised. The Activision support tweeted: “Activision Call of Duty Accounts have not been compromised. Reports claiming otherwise are incorrect.”
What is the situation with the hack? Even though Call of Duty is currently all about Black Ops Cold War and its multiplayer alpha: it seems that there has been a massive hack at the big publisher Activision, where – so far – data from over 500,000 “Call of Duty” accounts have been stolen or at least compromised.
What is the truth? Even though the account that spread the information has been deleted on Twitter, the info has already been confirmed as “legit”, meaning real, by some credible and reliable CoD leakers and dataminers, including TheGamingRevolution, Prototype Warehouse, and Okami.
For instance, Prototype Warehouse explains that they have personally seen concrete evidence of this.
They are also trying to alert Activision about this.
Furthermore, it is said that the hacked accounts likely do not have two-factor authentication (2FA) enabled.
What does Activision say? An official statement is still pending. So far, the company has not officially commented on the hacking rumors. However, we have already inquired.
If or when there is an official response, we will provide it here in the article as soon as possible to clarify what is really going on.
By the way, a developer has commented on another important topic related to CoD: CoD Cold War: Developer addresses the biggest criticism of the alpha
What should one do now? Leakers and dataminers strongly recommend changing your “Call of Duty” account password immediately – even on consoles and even if the hacker attack is still ongoing.
This would make it harder for hackers and their software, so says Prototype Warehouse.
And even if the whole matter is not yet fully clarified and even if you are not noticeably affected – a preventive password change should not hurt anyone, but rather provide more security.
