Reports began to surface last year from players whose Xbox Live accounts were hacked after they played FIFA 11 and FIFA 12. Playersâ accounts were being activated on Xbox 360 consoles that were not their own, at which point their credit cards were charged for large amounts of Microsoft Points, then used on FIFA downloadable content.
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As Kotaku reported last month, when asked about all the claims of hacked accounts, EA responded that the problem was not a FIFA hack directly, but, âsome phishing experiment that uses FIFA as the end game because itâs an attractive game.â
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Weâre committed to doing everything we can in our game to help keep you safe from phishers and scammers, and our March game update is key part of that commitment:
It will now only be possible to send trade offers to people on your friends list.
On entering FUT on your console for the first time after the update, you will be required to provide a unique answer to a security question.
If anyone else attempts to enter your FUT account from a different console, they will be required to enter the answer to your security question.
While these measures will certainly make life much more difficult for those attempting to compromise othersâ accounts, itâs still vitally important that you protect your information.
Whether the accounts are compromised through a phishing attempt, as EA and Microsoft assert, or through an account vulnerability, as many players believe, the additional layers of account security should help to protect FIFA fans.
FIFA 12 Game Update: EAS FC and Ultimate⊠[EA Forums, via LazyGamer]
