Hey /r/Minecraft!

So my Mojang account was stolen this week. Luckily for me, it was during one of the periods where I'm actually playing Minecraft, and not the other half of the year when I'm not.

I've been doing some Resonant Rise Modpack with the wifey, logged on last night and immediately noticed that my Minecraft name had been changed. As I've never shared account details with anyone or logged in anywhere else I knew it had to be a compromised account.

I went straight to Mojang's website and changed the password straight away, adding a couple of letters just for speed. Set up some security questions, and changed the password yet again, this time to something totally different.

It looks like I got there just in time as the name change had occurred the same day. The only other thing that had been altered was the skin (solid snake? cringe).

After snooping around a bit it looks like hacked accounts are being resold on various websites with instructions to change the email addresses and passwords associated with them immediately. They're not even trying to cover up what they're doing – they know the accounts are stolen, and buyers even complain to the sellers that the accounts were "taken back".

Anyway, If you haven't already done so, set up some security questions and consider changing your Mojang account password. Mojang also advise using a password that is unique, so if someone learns your MC email/password they won't get access to anything else as well.

Now I just have to wait for Mojang to get back to me and undo/reset the name change. I'm currently stuck with a stupid name, but it could've been a lot worse.