A valid concern these days, since companies that get hacked have taken to only notifying there customers well after the event. Hacking attempts are common. So common that when I had games stolen in the middle of buying x-mas gifts, with a new password, Valve didn't bat an eye about issuing credit. Here's a reality check: Steam suffers low-level hacks all the time, and Steam is a backdoor into your account and every single game you use Steam to access. However, this is not Ylands (stored customer payment information in the clear on servers until it was patched), and it's not DS3.

The reality is that simply because you aren't important doesn't mean people aren't trying to hack you. Even paranoids have enemies. Yours have names like Microsoft, Google, and Amazon. Who was the "IT Manager" up there? The one who said use a password manager? Yeah, don't do that. Don't let your computer keep track of your passwords. Don't let your AVS store your passwords. Heck, don't store them on your computer at all. Make them random, keep them in a secure location, and change them frequently. For stuff you don't use very often, it's fine for you to have to look them up. If you use it all the time, memorize it. And if you installed Windows 11, congrats, you've got lots of official Spyware and a Keylogger to boot. It was bad in 10, but it's criminal in 11. Do some research on how to remove or block some of those "services." Let them call you paranoid; you won't be the one that spends 6 years trying to put their life back together because someone decided to be you.

For this game: it doesn't support large server, so it's easy to keep it small, private, and friendly. There'll be lots of exploiting, but you won't have to worry about the hacking.