As MMOs increase in popularity, an alarming number of people are having their accounts hacked on a daily basis. The problem has become so epidemic that its overall weight is dragging down respective customer support centers as they attempt to placate irate and confused customers. In some cases, it can take weeks to retrieve your character and if you’re lucky, you may get your items back.

Now, the vast majority of these problems could be avoided if gamers used their heads, but with the increased casual appeal of your typical MMO, we’re finding more players who simply don’t know better until it’s too late. It’s a hell of a way to learn. How are hackers getting account information? A variety of ways:

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A rumor has begun circulating around the Internet that Sony’s European PSP Go website was hacked by a band of unscrupulous DSi lovers.  If you go to the URL http://www.pspgo.co.uk/ you will be met with a rather professional-looking website modeled exactly after Nintendo’s official DSi page.  But the allegedly official PSP Go website isn’t owned by Sony – it was apparently registered to a Chinese owner in April of this year. read more…

Sick of not having any options when it comes to selecting a mobile carrier? While the FCC is busy launching an investigation into exclusivity deals between mobile phone makers and carriers, you can now stick it too the man by unlocking your iPhone 3.0. The recently released Ultrasn0w will free your 3.0 iPhone from AT&T’s universe, assuming the phone is already jailbroken with the Pwnage tool. Problem is, you currently need a Mac OS X system for running Ultrsn0w, but a PC version should be released very soon.

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