Anyone see this? Someone on the BBS started a thread urging everyone to change their passwords on all sims sites, but was quite careful not to spell out why to avoid the instant delete. The thread went on for awhile, until MaxoidDrea locked it, saying this:

"Thread is now locked. I think everyone is sufficiently warned now.

Although we've never had any issues with our account database being hacked on this site, we appreciate the reminder that frequently changing passwords is important for internet security.

However, I want to remind everyone that if you've had problems with your personal accounts on other internet sites, it's important to take it up with those site administrators, not start a panic here."

Yes, it's important that you trust everything the other site administrators tell you and under no circumstances should you warn others to prevent the same thing from happening to them.
 

From MaxoidHydra:

Hi Simmers,

We're still seeing a few off topic posts concerning TSR and a thread on MTS2. Threads about this issue will be deleted and temp bans will be given out if they continue to be posted.

If you woud like to discuss the issue, please discuss them in either the TSR or MTS2 forums.

Thanks.


HAHAHAHA. Yes, we'll take it to TSR. Why didn't I think of that, that's brilliant. What an extremely relevant response to what people have been saying on the BBS.

My BBS thread is gone now, but it was up for quite a while. I thought perhaps the mods were turning a blind eye...fat chance.

Oh, the BBS thread is beautiful. This is becoming a true shitstorm.

Well, I'm taking it beyond the sims community at this point, because this shit has gotten ridiculous.

Here's my thread as of this morning (still going 2 hours later!): http://bbs.thesims2.ea.com/community/bbs/messages.php?threadID=5f7bf43cb22b2e8fdd6e8249029a15cc&directoryID=2&startRow=1&openItemID=item.2,item.43,item.61,item.104,item.41,item.127,item.23

Also, I did write to the Consumerist. We shall see what happens.