One time password /sigh

[kidvideo]

lol... smh... dude, do you even remember how you set up your account?

[Quesse]

Just curious, is there an emergency removal password for those that have the hardware token?

What would be the method to gain access if your token stops working?

I've tried to figure this out before but could not.

EXAMPLE: https://secure.square-enix.com/accou...vc/coercioncan

This removal form only references the soft-token. What if you have a hardware token? Odd there is no corresponding form.

I ask because I got my hardware token when they first started offering them with FFXI. It must be 7 years old. Gonna die sometime soon >.<

[Noahlimits]

lol... smh... dude, do you even remember how you set up your account?

There are TONS of people on the FFXIV reddit who have had their accounts compromised and banned after being hacked. If you use a PC, any keylogger or malware can get your username and password. If you're on ps4, have you ever used the same user name in another game (HoN, LoL, WoW, .. anything)? That's the main way they hack your FF account, they don't even need to guess your username. Not to mention PSN themselves have been hacked more than twice in the last 5 years. While they may not want any crap on your character, they'll sure use it to bot or shout RMT spam.

[Vallug]

Where is the code in case something goes wrong?I cant find it.

[Zarzak]

Hmmm maybe I have the e-mail thanks for the tip.



Can give the "plan ahead" argument all you want but um... How many people really look for these solutions before they encounter a problem.

Just saying.... taking a picture of it with my phone and emailing it to myself seemed like a no brainer

[Wobble]

Hmmm maybe I have the e-mail thanks for the tip.



Can give the "plan ahead" argument all you want but um... How many people really look for these solutions before they encounter a problem.

When you linked it to your account it told you to save it, it did when I set up the phone app. I no longer use the phone app and have gone back to the token I got with my CE of the game. I actually still have the first one I got when they came out for FFXI and it still works.

[kidvideo]

There are TONS of people on the FFXIV reddit who have had their accounts compromised and banned after being hacked. If you use a PC, any keylogger or malware can get your username and password. If you're on ps4, have you ever used the same user name in another game (HoN, LoL, WoW, .. anything)? That's the main way they hack your FF account, they don't even need to guess your username. Not to mention PSN themselves have been hacked more than twice in the last 5 years. While they may not want any crap on your character, they'll sure use it to bot or shout RMT spam.

Meh. PSN was hacked, I'll grant you that, however user names, passwords & credit card numbers are encrypted, salted & hashed. I experienced no problems from the hack other than PSN itself being down. Otherwise I'm on a mac at home & a PC at work. & it would be foolish to use the same login user name & password across multiple sites. Very simple: PS4 software license is linked to my SE account. No one is hacking my SE account to add a PC rmt/bot. Anyone who fears hackers when they are personally being responsible & exercising common sense is watching too much fake nightly "news" shows.

[Sove92]

Just curious, is there an emergency removal password for those that have the hardware token?

I ask because I got my hardware token when they first started offering them with FFXI. It must be 7 years old. Gonna die sometime soon >.<

The hardware tokens don't have emergency removal passwords. About the battery dying, I think they have a low battery warning, because SE does mention you should change the token as soon as the battery starts to run out, and there is no other way to know it's running low, other than a low battery warning.

passwords & credit card numbers are encrypted, salted & hashed.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...ords-hour.html So much for password hashes and 16-character passwords. Your password is secure only as long as the hashes are not in cracker hands.

[madolyn]

i had this problem a few weeks ago and i lost my emergency removal password. I just did a live chat with support and they removed it within 5 minutes and i was able to play again.

[Gilraen]

It is not uncommon for people to then purge their e-mail accounts of the Square Enix e-mails they received and this step can be easily overlooked.

Who does this? Who purges emails related to things they have done that involve real money that aren't a.) receipts or b.) shipping notifications. I keep everything but Ebay emails because eff Ebay, like I need to keep 5 emails telling me about something I received in the mail already and have found to be satisfactory (though if it's not what I ordered I'm definitely going to have a use for those 5 emails). I have email files with email going back as far as 2003. Not because I'm hoarding them but because they all have information pertaining to things I still use to this day. It makes sense to archive old emails. This thing you say is like burning your bridges, nothing good ever comes of it.