Hi everyone, I frequently see appeals in which people claim their account to be hacked and your legit reply is that there are plenty of ways to prevent it.

I have never done anything special to make my account "safe" and I would be so annoyed if this would happen to me.
So, I would like to know and apply those strategies to prevent my account to be hacked, do you have any tips for me?

I hope this is not ot, thanks all.

1. Use a strong password.

2. Use different passwords for multiple important accounts.

3. Enable 2FA.

4. Authorize with your mobile or Google Authenticator instead of an E-mail address with poor protection.

5. Turn on notifications to warn yourself when there are suspicious activities on your account.

Thank you both!

I'm glad I already do all the things mentioned by Riotranz.
I never heard of password managers, I'll take a look.

For a local pass manager, I suggest you Keepass.

https://keepass.info/help/base/firststeps.html

There are also paid cloud based pass managers, but I personally want to keep my passes on my own system instead of somewhere on a random server.

Mind that passwords are useless when you fill in your pass on any website other then the official EA site. Phishing is something to watch out for. So always double check mails you get that ask you to login.

https://blog.malwarebytes.com/101/2017/06/somethings-phishy-how-to-detect-phishing-attempts/

2FA is a 2nd layer of security when someone has a password from you. So never, ever share your 2FA codes with anyone!

With EA, a weak link in the 2FA is e-mail. You can not disable it as a 2nd 2FA option. So I suggest you to use an e-mail that also supports 2FA like outlook and gmail. Most ISP mails do not support 2FA.

Don't use the same email address you use for personal stuff.

Don't use the same password on Origin as in your email.