SE Please start caring about your players privacy.

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Can you explain how you would do that?

Do an emergency rollback to the previous blacklist pre-Dawntrail to stop the bleeding (they really should have done this already, and the JP thread is calling for the game to be entirely shut down for maintenance to facilitate doing it). That alone would accomplish the primary goal of Step 1. After that, implement ANY kind of security measure to prevent account data from being scraped if the Dawntrail blacklist functions absolutely must operate client-side. It is trivial for a developer of SE's means to implement encryption of some sort to keep that data secure from the type of data scraping that's happening.

This is the only step that can help mitigate this issue.

It is not the only step that would help, just the step they must take first. Any other steps would be worthless until our account data can't be scraped anymore. As to your edit, the person who wrote the contents of that quote lacks imagination for how much work SE owes us for the severity of the damage their incredible negligence for our data security has caused. I can imagine an absolutely MASSIVE amount of work, meticulously editing all the IDs and all calls the code makes to those IDs manually until absolutely everything is no longer consistent with that database. It might be like old times when they made A Realm Reborn, it'll be a grand ol' time for them. I can imagine them doing that work for months according to their normal work schedule, staying nice and well-rested on the weekends to be fully present of mind for their normal work hours, day in and day out, until every single player's account information is once again secure and the database is wholly inaccurate. They absolutely should do that much work if that's how much work it takes. It is after all their lack of consideration for our safety that caused this, and it is their responsibility to rectify this no matter how much work it would take to do so. They don't even need to do it for every single account in the game. The database isn't that large. They only need to do it for some million-odd accounts that have logged in since November 1st. That's easy by comparison to what I'm imagining.

Will they want to do that much work? LOL ABSOLUTELY NOT. So let's hope the JP community pressuring them like I've never personally seen before is enough to get meaningful action out of SE.