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Password+Username change by E-mail confirnation

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Akishi

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                                                Posted: Tue, 26/08/2014 07:21                                                (10 Years ago)
                                            

Its easy to lose an account if your at school and a hacker entered at your account.So i suggest to add E-Mail confirmation to change Username and Password.

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Queen_Pumpkaboo

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                                                Posted: Tue, 26/08/2014 09:06                                                (10 Years ago)
                                            

Possible support, but a hacker can only enter your account if he knows your password, so if your not too dumb, he won't get in, but if he can hack into your Pokeheroes account WITHOUT the password, couldn't he hack into your e-mail account too? :P

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                                                Posted: Tue, 26/08/2014 19:59                                                (10 Years ago)
                                            

If I'm reading this right you want to be able to know when your username and password was changed by email to prevent hackers from getting into your account.

Maybe because I am not in school I can't relate to this scenario but one: you shouldn't be playing games in school without logging out of your account. It's like going to a public computer, logging into your email, and leaving it there for others to see. That's not even hacking at that point.

So, if you just log out of your account then that solves the problem shouldn't it? And you can't change your user name for certain periods of time so that wouldn't work.

And let's say someone does log into your account because you left it open at school, and doesn't change the password? Can't you just change it yourself and now the user is locked out?

But again if you simply log out of your PH account I'd think that'd be enough to prevent "school hackers" from tapping into the matrix and stealing your account haha xD

So no support unless maybe some more explanation is added

Riako

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                                                Posted: Tue, 26/08/2014 20:03                                                (10 Years ago)
                                            

That's why you have a password assigned to your account... to lock your account and to prevent "hackers" to get into your account. Although it's not really a "hacker" when you just forget to log out of an account in a public place.
Plus, if you want to change your password, then you are asked for your current password. Which means that - even if you forget to log out - another person has no chance to change your password.

It's different with the username - but like I said, just don't forget to log out. There are much worse things that could happen to your account then just a username change. For example releasing all of your Pokémon, gifting all of your PD to another account, breaking the rules & getting banned.
So actually you would need an E-Mail confirmation for every action that you do on PokéHeroes.
Or: Log out after you are done playing on a public computer.