IMPORTANT: Update Your Minecraft Password ASAP

CHANGE YOUR MINECRAFT PASSWORD - WHY

A recent exploit found in OpenSSL (an open-source security socket layer, meant to secure/encrypt internet traffic) called "Heartbleed", made it possible for hackers to find and use passwords on systems using OpenSSL.

WAIT, MOJANG WAS HACKED?

No, Mojang was not hacked. Their servers are not vulnerable to the OpenSSL exploit, but the load balancers they use from Amazon were. As a precaution, it has been recommended that you update your Minecraft password, just to be sure.

Quote from Mojang »
Due to an exploit in the OpenSSL software used by Amazon's load balancing serive (which we use for most of our stuff) we were forced to temporary suspend all of our services. All systems are now back online, and the exploit has been fixed. There was no way to target specific users, but we can not guarantee that your information wasn't compromised. Therefore we recommend everyone to change their Mojang/Minecraft account passwords.

WAIT - DO I CHANGE MY MINECRAFT PASSWORD, MOJANG PASSWORD, OR BOTH?

If you have not migrated your account, change your password at Minecraft.net.

If you have migrated your account, change your password at Mojang.com.

Regardless of whether you have or have not migrated, it is crucial to change your password.

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arcane_luis
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Posted Apr 11, 2014
Ok

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Posted Apr 11, 2014
I'm gonna change now.

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Posted Apr 12, 2014
The government made this exploit originally that can see everyone's passwords, also the same exploit that allowed them to see through the tor network, no one has fixed this and it's been out there for 18 months

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Posted Apr 12, 2014
I changed it already.

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Posted Apr 14, 2014
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This doesn't make any sense at all. If Mojang was not hacked, and the problem has been fixed then why in the world would we need to change our passwords?

Either you were hacked and we should change them, or everything is A ok and we don't need too. Personally, it would seem to me that there are some clear discrepancies in your story.

Up above you say, "As a precaution, it has been recommended that you update your Minecraft password, just to be sure." However, you end the very same post by saying, "Regardless of whether you have or have not migrated, it is crucial to change your password."

If it is only recommended that we change our passwords then why is it so crucial?

I would like to know what actually happened and why you are pushing us so hard to change our passwords? Personally, I think your OpenSSL was hacked and you just don't want to say it for fear you may lose some customers.

If you were already hacked, then if you change your password NOW you don't need to worry about others changing it for you. Though I have no reason why to believe a hacker like that would want to play Minecraft on your account, this affects most of the Internet, so that's pretty crucial. And if you really want to know, some guy made Heartbleed, about more than 2/3 of the Internet was able to get hacked (for lack of better term). It's not much more than that, but if you're gonna go daredevil and not change your password we're not gonna really care if for some reason some hacker wants your account.

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Posted Apr 16, 2014
Guys I think I know some hackers but I'm not sure in YouTube every famous you tuber account has a spammer that keeps on saying search out mine craft virtpal they changed it now and now its called duxom I think that's what causing the problems in minecraft the accounts in YouTube is either fake accounts or paid accounts and they speak like British just saying what I know

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Posted Jun 29, 2014
When I changed my password, I could only play the demo! That didn't happen to any of you guys? Is there something I didn't do?

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