EVERYONE CHANGE YOUR MINECRAFT PASSWORD ASAP

We urge everyone in the Minecraft community to change their Minecraft.net passwords ASAP. Please read below for tips on how to create a better password before doing so.

It recently came to our attention that a list of approximately 1,000 Minecraft account names and passwords were made freely available on the internet. We believe this list consists of information collected by a group of malicious users from a well known "griefing team". How the information in this list was obtained is not sure, but we suspect they collected them through the use of hacked clients that pretend to only give you extra features like flying or seeing through blocks but actually send your account information to the creators as well.

If there is ONE thing you read in this announcement, it should be this: we urge everyone to go and change their passwords NOW, keeping in mind the following tips on creating better passwords:
Passwords should not contain words found in the dictionary
Passwords should contain a mixture of upper and lowercase characters.
Passwords should contain a mixture of letters and numbers.
Passwords should contain punctuation characters and symbols such as: % & + - = #.
Choose a password you can remember but don't make it too easy.
Passwords should be at LEAST 8 characters in length, but 14 or more is preferable.
Please help us by sharing this information with everyone you know and getting them to change their Minecraft.net passwords.

ALSO, I want to inform you guys on how important it is not to download stupid silly hacks from the internet. Almost all the malware keyloggers and crap come from this.

Check this out, this is a hack that someone acquired involuntarily, after downloading a minecraft patcher program:

As you can see, the user was unaware that this was happening and did not initiate it himself.

SO EVEN MINECRAFT players are at risk so watch CHAT. Always tell players not to download files from other players. And if you download a texture pack make sure it's just images and not class files.

It's best to not download any client mods that are not from respectable authors who have been doing it for moths and NEVER download special modified mods from say other people in the threads and such. They might just be a trap waiting for you!

As per our rules, HACKS OR CLIENT MODS THAT WOULD GIVE YOU AN UNFAIR ADVANTAGE ARE 100% GILLIGAN AND WILL RESULT IN A PERMANENT AND IMMEDIATE BAN THE FIRST TIME THEY ARE USED - OUR SERVER EVEN AUTOBANS PEOPLE WHO USE PROGRAMS LIKE FLYMODS. Don't use them, and be safe.

Thanks for the warning adam, password changed. griefing team... what a bunch of lowlifes.

You are a hero, sir.

Thanks for this warning! I'll go do this right now.

http://dinnerbone.com/minecraft.php?

Use this link to check and see if your account is on the compromised list.

Spencer and I looked over the entireeee list and we didnt see anyone we knew, but check anyway.

thx man ur a life savor ill get on that!!!

turdferguson is NOT on the list! You're safe!

turdferguson wrote:

turdferguson is NOT on the list! You're safe!

zakstillwell is NOT in the list! you're safe!