Mind explaining why you use the image from that site as avatar while at the same time try to seam unrelated to this scam asking questions to bump people into going there?

You can do a lot of other stuff that makes your life a little easier but also protects you.  For example, you can keep using dropbox, but just use Boxcryptor Classic or a TrueCrypt container for the bulk of your files.  Then music and other stuff that you don't care if it gets leaks, you can still have that in the clear, so all your apps can still take advantage of dropbox's interconnectedness to everything.  You can use a non-logging VPN instead of Tor-- yeah you have to trust the VPN, but at least you prevent ISP spying and you get speeds much better than Tor allows for.  And you can sign up for a Tormail or Lavabit e-mail, which again-- you have to trust them, but it's probably easier than only communicating with friends who use PGP.

Remember, security and convenience are always a trade-off, so my personal advice is to only protect yourself against egregious violations and let them have the small stuff.  It's just too much of a pain to not have Google on your phone or to only use encrypted communication or to constantly change services or use fake info all the time.  I mean, if you want to, more power to you, but understand the trade-off.  I like the little conveniences that are afforded by sacrificing some privacy, but I understand what I'm giving up.  I expect all my communications to be monitored, and I am able to protect myself if I want, but most of the time it's not worth the hassle.

But I guess, if you want to fight the good fight more than I do, that's perfectly fine and I bid you godspeed.

Those are password reset/change requests. Are you sure your mail account is safe?



That's what I meant, yeah.

Tell you what. You should contact Origin and get them to reinstate the account to you.

You'll get a free Battlefield 3 in the process

http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/de/user/Kinetic915

I'm pretty serious. Sounds to me like you may have a malware infection. The 100% thing is not normal and I have ever only seen it with crappily programmed malware.

Also.... I hate to tell you this... but you should kinda flatten and reinstall your Mac what with this happening

That password I linked to is the very one they used to get into your Origin account, so how is it irrelevant?

The most likely scenario is this: you posted your password on a site that is filled to the brim with scammers and fraudsters, namely bitcointalk. One lucky guy saw that and threw it into his automated "Try this username/password-combo with every known interesting system" script, got a positive from Origin then threw it into his list of "dudes I have the Origin login data for". This fits with the timeframe also. You posted your password, two weeks later it's on the Russian site.

Be honest though, a games company website isn't particularly important, they're going to have pretty crappy security no matter how you look at it but this is precisely why when you sign up with these companies you use a password that isn't connected to your important stuff and you've reminded me that I should probably change my cryptocurrency stuff just in case because I'm sure there are some linked up passwords from there floating around the internet.

I agree EA is a shitty company and their standards are piss poor, but they can't be blamed because you only used one password.

Just checked my mail adresses. I am a complete and total unknown.

Are you sure you didn't get your stuff stolen elsewhere? Especially with that horribly horribly unsafe password you were using?