Quote Originally Posted by ollieisamuppet View Post
"What are they trying to prove?"

Simple. They're trying to prove that they can actually *do* it. That's what "hacking" is all about.

I don't think it's such a bad thing if they farmed your email address and/or birthday, etc.. the fact that these guys are all being attacked proves their security is deficient. So, like Sony, Codemasters will now tighten their security to prevent such a thing from happening again. That's gotta be good for everyone, right? (at least in the long run)

At least CM actually hashed your passwords and didn't store them as plain text.. (thanks again Sony). Seeing as probably 60% of people use the same damn password for everything..
I use very long and complex passwords for any site where security of my account is a concern. Everything else, well, I can always recover or reset my password.