Security Upgrades, Bug Fixing and Decoys

Product Update 31 March 2017

Hi All!

This week’s release contains a few important security upgrades that we have been working on and testing for a while, one of the most important ones being the Two-Factor Authentication. Additionally there is quite a lot of bug fixing and a few infrastructure upgrades we needed to go through in order to finish some of the features we are working on at the moment as well as having a more reliable experience on the platform.

Security Upgrades

Your security is always one of our top most concerns. With the recent wave of breaches to other communities within the gaming space we decided to put an additional effort to increase your account’s security and give you more options to protect your account.

Additionally, we would like to advise all of our players that have accounts on websites that have come under attack in recent months to make sure they don’t use the same or similar password on FACEIT and if so to change their password linked to FACEIT to avoid the information gained elsewhere to affect your account with FACEIT.

Two-Factor Authentication

We have now implemented two-factor authentication (2FA) to FACEIT. You can now activate 2FA via “Your Account” settings. This can be done using either iOS (7.0 or above) or Android (2.3.3 or above) devices.

You will also be provided with ten single-use “back up” codes, should anything happen to your authentication device. These back up codes can be reset at any time by the authenticated user.

Other Security Improvements

Once a player changes their password and/or e-mail address, all open sessions will now be closed.

Implemented a silent reCAPTCHA to log in and when purchasing an item from the store.

All accounts carrying admin rights are now forced to use 2FA by default.

Other / Misc:

Upgraded the chat service to improve room creation reliability and support larger chat rooms

Stats for non-standard game modes are now avoided from the general stats page

Added a number of performance fixes to the Stats service

Fixed a number of performance issues with the AC client

Upgraded reCAPTCHA to latest version across the platform

Upgraded the match system for CS:GO, DOTA 2, Classic Offensive, and Team Fortress 2 to enhance reliability — from now on when a match finishes if one of the internal services is temporarily not available the result is saved and is processed as soon as the services are available again.

Hope you enjoyed the update. See you on FACEIT!

p.s. Careful with those decoys.