Escape From Tarkov Accounts Are Being Wiped En Masse

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How would you feel if you had over a month of progress in one of the hardest games ever taken away from you in the blink of an eye?

Some Escape From Tarkov players have unfortunately become experts at answering that question, as a wave of malicious account resets has swept over the community.

Social media tags and boards related to Escape From Tarkov have been flooded with reports of wiped accounts, and streamers have been hit particularly hard by this.

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Most affected players discovered this tragic Boxing Day surprise when opening Escape From Tarkov. Instead of their profile, they were met with the usual prompt to choose a faction, a nickname, and a character model.

The source of the account reset appears to be a site vulnerability that allows a third party to wipe accounts and change details even in cases where the owner has two-factor authentication active.

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To make matters worse, at the time of writing, changing one's password does not log the malicious party out of the account.

The only reliable solution at present seems to be to contact the BattleState Game's support and ask for your account to be locked, then log in again with new credentials.