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How secure is your MMO account? According to a recent post on the Symantec blog site your account could be part of a massive database of 44 million stolen MMO accounts that were found on a server (the location of the server was unnamed). That's a whopping 17GB of account info. The numbers included over 210,000 accounts from World of Warcraft and 60,000 from Aion.

The server seems tied into a Trojan program that Symantec has identifed as Trojan.Loginck. The program "logs on to gaming websites to check if stolen gaming credentials are valid." The blog suggests this database could be used by whomever is running to sell the accounts for cash. Symantec suggests, quite correctly, that MMO gamers should perhaps change their password to avoid having their accounts stolen.

[Via Blue's News]