<story><title>Ubisoft hacked, account data compromised</title><url>https://support.ubi.com/en-US/FAQ.aspx?platformid=60&amp;brandid=2030&amp;productid=3888&amp;faqid=kA030000000eYZ2CAM</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dclowd9901</author><text>I wouldn&amp;#x27;t care so much about this, except that I am often essentially required to give my data to Ubisoft (and other third party publishers) in order to buy&amp;#x2F;play their games. EA, you&amp;#x27;re no better.&lt;p&gt;Why are all these companies adamant about trying to bootstrap their own services. It&amp;#x27;s maddening, and it &lt;i&gt;only&lt;/i&gt; causes things like this to happen. Steam exists, and it&amp;#x27;s amazing. Stop trying to do better -- you won&amp;#x27;t.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Zikes</author><text>Everything else being equal, Steam may well end up being similarly hacked in the future.  The big difference with them is that they use 2FA, so even if your hashed password were stolen and cracked, they still would not be able to access your account.&lt;p&gt;Edit: I just went through Ubi&amp;#x27;s password change process, they also restrict password lengths to 8 to 16 characters.  Annoys the heck out of me when companies do this.</text></comment>
<story><title>Ubisoft hacked, account data compromised</title><url>https://support.ubi.com/en-US/FAQ.aspx?platformid=60&amp;brandid=2030&amp;productid=3888&amp;faqid=kA030000000eYZ2CAM</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dclowd9901</author><text>I wouldn&amp;#x27;t care so much about this, except that I am often essentially required to give my data to Ubisoft (and other third party publishers) in order to buy&amp;#x2F;play their games. EA, you&amp;#x27;re no better.&lt;p&gt;Why are all these companies adamant about trying to bootstrap their own services. It&amp;#x27;s maddening, and it &lt;i&gt;only&lt;/i&gt; causes things like this to happen. Steam exists, and it&amp;#x27;s amazing. Stop trying to do better -- you won&amp;#x27;t.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FredFredrickson</author><text>I have mixed feelings about that. On the one hand, I fully agree - I hate having all kinds of junky game clients running on my computer when I &lt;i&gt;ought&lt;/i&gt; to just be able to have one, Steam, which is obviously doing a decent job.&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, I think that competition will drive Steam to be better (or maybe, just maybe, result in something better than Steam), and so I don&amp;#x27;t necessarily want the other companies to stop trying to compete entirely, either.</text></comment>