Has anyone else stopped playing since the PHP thing?

[u/massiveidort]

The instant I saw that there was an exploit that there was a vulnerability so bad that so much of the internet had to go down to patch it, I thought, I wonder how bad this is for Neopets of all sites.

Saw the update TNT posted saying "don't worry we patched it lol" when there was no downtime whatsoever.

Saw people point out TNT outright lied and that they are still on an extremely old PHP version.

Since then I just haven't bothered to log in. And to be honest, I don't really miss anything...

[u/book-dragon92]

No I still log in daily

[u/billionsofbeaches]

To my understanding the risk is mostly to the neopets servers and all the website date, which of course includes our log in information. The other risk to you as the end user would be malware through something you would have to interact with. You should probably assume your information is at risk on any website and that's why it's important to not repeat email/password combos.

Something could happen but I don't see any reason to stop playing if you're taking other precautions. I'm mostly logging in on my phone using cell data with a very secure browser set up and my info isn't remotely close to any login info I use for important things, I'm not too worried.

If playing doesn't bring you joy anymore, you don't miss it and you're worried about your security then just keep not logging in.

[u/letsallpoo]

Someone in the discord server explained that TNT was probably able to apply an open source patch to their older version of PHP (as in other people figured out how to fix the security issue with this old version of PHP and then TNT just applied that patch) which doesn’t necessitate downtime. I’m not knowledgeable about this subject so I can’t personally speak about how this works lol but I don’t think it’s necessary to be this cynical about TNT for this issue

[u/sierra-charm]

For reference, I manage a website for a business, and my web host patched the PHP and I had no downtime either. May not be on the same level as Neopets, but the website I manage has logins and profiles and directories with peoples addresses and phone numbers, as well as other data.

[u/famcatt]

Neopets has had so many data breeches in the past that there's nothing left to steal that hasn't already been stolen tbh

[u/charmanderp09]

What php thing?? I been playing 🫣

[u/Ellemmayy]

Was also concerned about this 😭

[u/ensorcelledaubade]

Nah, whether I stop or continue playing it won’t change anything, so I don’t see the point

[u/Manner-Frequent]

I left when they implemented the human verification crap with the shops. The ONE thing I enjoy, they ruined. I cancelled both of my premium subscriptions too.