SE Please start caring about your players privacy.

[Rueby]

Correct. The data for at least 750k characters is already out there.

"Thanks" to the plugins ability to also track the location of these characters, it's possible to link them to houses and other players.

Even changing the ID and name won't change anything now.

For example, if Player A (ID 1234) is in FC Y and PVP group Alpha and also owns house Limsa 1-1, people with access to the database can just look at this FC after any ID or name change.

Even worse when they now know that Player A (ID 1234), Player B (ID 1235), and Player C (ID 1236) always sit on the same bench in Limsa. Doesn't matter if they are now Player G (ID 7393), Player U (ID AHEG), and Player 3 (ID 4T0J).


The only solution for anyone not already in this database is for SE to revert the changes to the blacklist or to remove the sharing of unique IDs. That also means lodestone. Remove the ID in the url and use something like Firstname.Lastname@server@datacenter or something. I mean, that is unique enough for something like this.

People already in the database are out of luck. Their data will be tracked forever now and no kind of ID change or name change can change that. They would have to start a complete new character after SE fixes this somehow and would not even be allowed to play like they did before. The same friends, possibly already in the database? Yeah, pretty obvious who this "new" character belongs to.

I feel like people are not freaking out enough about this. This is a massive issue.

What would freaking out do to this? I've been freaking out for the past 5 days. Many people ingame are unaware, not everyone uses reddit/youtube/forums and I wish I was unaware too. It makes me wonder if that's why they're withholding making a statement for now.

I think if it truly is 'oops guys we fucked up and 750k chars are compromised and we can't do anything about it, but please continue paying us money! Continue buying the mogstation items that are not account wide' This is absurd. We actually suffer for their negligence.

If this data is out there forever then we need the account wide blacklist to stay even more in case anyone wishes to use it to harass others or act on it. That's the only comfort there is.

This is the only comforting fact there is. If someone contacts you in game on an alt, then you can block/report them, if they're an alt to a stalker then you already blacklisted their entire account. It's too late to roll back the blacklist to its previous iteration, not with so many catalogued.