WARNING: Massive cd-key theft going on

As already mentioned in the previous news post, there is currently a massive ongoing effort by certain entities to steal people's cd-keys to then sell them for a profit. Private hack forums are full of posts of these fraudsters trying to sell heaps of cd-keys for a cheap price. We are talking about hundreds of cd-keys here, so this is not a small issue at all. The game developers confirmed that this is a huge problem right now.

Their process of stealing cd-keys is quite simple: They advertise a supposedly undetected hack on sites like YouTube and the moment you download and run it (it will probably report that the hack failed to load) your cd-key is already stolen. In many cases your actual cd-key in registry is overwritten with a banned one, so you will automatically receive a global ban message on join (see below). This is done to prevent you from using your cd-key again, so the fraudsters can sell them claiming that they are valid and not in use. Note that this can be fixed (temporarily) by deleting the cd-key from the registry and reinstalling your game. While your original cd-key is not banned due to this, it might very well end up being soon when your cd-key is being used by a cheater that purchased it. This causes many players to think they were innocently banned when in fact their cd-key was stolen and used for cheating. At the very least you will often receive a "CD key in use" message when trying to connect to servers.

If you think this is false propaganda to cover up supposed false global bans I advise you to do some research on this yourself. You can easily verify this by searching for "free DayZ hack" on YouTube. You will see lots of results and almost all of them are scams. Most of them are actually quite popular and have thousands of views. When downloading them and opening the .exe file in e.g. Notepad (warning: do not actually run the .exe!), you can find cd-key related strings such as "SOFTWARE\Bohemia Interactive Studio\ArmA 2 OA" (the registry location of the cd-key) inside.

In short, heed the following: DO NOT EVER RUN ANY HACKS OR OTHER SUSPICIOUS SOFTWARE! If you end up being banned due to your cd-key being stolen there is nothing we can do for you.

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I wish i had such Programm :P jk, this really is a Problem.

This is a great post, but already know to many, however, to the people that do not know about this problem, this is a very educational post for them.

Keygen always existed,this is only a try to stop hackers.

I'm pretty sure this ain't legit but i found interesting "Hack" on youtube :P
This is all it had= (+Read me) http://i.imgur.com/TFUE8.png What chu guys think? Should i atleast try it?
EDIT: Pretty sure it's fake but i'm pretty interested about this specific hack so i'll run it on my virtual PC and we'll see what happens. Yup it's a fake :3

@n1kko Indeed haha
@Thread
People say it's a problem, but i don't know for sure.
It indeed is like a Insta-ban, wich prevents people from hacking.
If they try it again, same thing happens insta ban.

I actually like the people who are doing this, not the fact that they make money but the fact hackers get punished that fast.