Due to a recent spam wave on the forum, we are tightening security when it comes to user accounts on our platform (the forum which acts as the user authentication for in game).
Our system has not been compromised! These accounts are sharing passwords with other services that have been and this is now allowing bots to login to this forum to spam.
We will still be banning all the accounts that have spammed the forum plus any that are associated with them.
We originally planned to just ban all accounts without a Discord or Steam connection but have found many of the spamming accounts to have linked one of these accounts and to also be active game players.
Further investigation has shown that the user accounts on the forum that have been compromised are using shared passwords with other services that have leaked their passwords.
To combat this, we will require all users to reset their passwords.
We still advise adding Steam or Discord to your account for added security but we will now not be banning forum accounts (not game accounts) without these 3rd party accounts attached to their forum account. This might change at a later date.
You will receive in the next few days an email from the forum asking you to change your password.
If you have never confirmed your email, now is the time to check that it is correct. You will not be able to login to update your email once we send out password resets!
If you have used a temp email to signup, you must change this now to a real one.
We do not send out emails other than account related ones so there will never be spam from us!
Failure to change your password will result in you being locked out of your game account! Please act now to check your email is correct on the forum.
https://community.projecttorque.racing/account/