Blizzard's Network Hacked

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Yureina said:
Ugh....

I'm getting really sick of these hackers. Someone needs to end these people. :eek:
My thoughts exactly. I'm just tired of hacking incursion after hacking incursion...
 

Fr]anc[is

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At first I really didn't like that Starcraft 2 forced me to make a Battle.net account even though I never planned to play it online. But those achievements were worth giving my email address to a bunch of hackers. Thanks Blizzard!
 

CardinalPiggles

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I feel bad my North American brothers, and hope that nothing of significant value can be stolen.

Also, this has very little to do with Diablo 3 directly, the issue is with Battle.net as a whole, so if those few folks could come down off their high horses, that'd be lovely.
 

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cursedseishi said:
The intrusion of what should be a secure database, that holds personal information, should at least be mentioned to the people using it. No need for a "press conference", but an email informing you that it might be a good idea to update your security information isn't a bad thing..
You mean... what this topic is about?

Now that Blizzard knows it's worth bothering you about, they're sending you an email informing you that it might be a good idea to update your security information.
 

KeyMaster45

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What aggravates me the most about this is that I had an e-mail account set up that was only tied to my bnet account so as to have a fool proof way of never falling victim to those phishing e-mails. (not that I ever would since they're all laughably fake) Now I have to go through the trouble of setting up a new one in anticipation of the high volumes of spam about to flood my previously pristine inbox.

This was bound to happen eventually though. The odds were just stacked against them that eventually one of the many hackers trying to get in would find a hole just big enough to fuck everyone over. Sad part is they'll never catch who did this and even if they do it will be far too late to prevent them from doing anything with the data.
 

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sir.rutthed said:
I notice it says nothing about the keychain authenticators. Can we take that to mean that those of us with them are less at risk then the mobile authenticator users?
I can say with a straight face, yes.

*pats keychain*
 

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Yureina said:
Ugh....

I'm getting really sick of these hackers. Someone needs to end these people. :eek:
I agree, I--- wait, holy crap I haven't see you around in awhile!
 

Soak

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Reading the headline combined with the picture immediately resulted in a deep voice in my head saying "Hell, it's about time!" XD
Considering things like 100% security, an impenetrable fortress or an unsinkable ship are impossible, this had to happen eventually. I would like to say that Blizz and their policies kinda earned them that sort of attention for good, but unfortunately more friendly companies can be targets as well and the ones on the short end are the users.
 

LetalisK

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And because Blizzard is a company with a half decent PR department, this will be promptly buried.
 

Beautiful End

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Eh, I don't play Blizzard games. Nothing against them, I guess, but I'm just not a PC gamer.

However, I gotta say I'm glad. Hopefully they'll improve their security.
It might be a bit out of topic but I keep getting these emails from Blizzard saying my account was under investigation or something because of botting or scamming or whatever. I don't have a Blizzard account for the reason listed above! I keep trying to reply to them to tell them to gtfo but when I try to do so, it takes me to the official Blizzard customer support page and asks me to login to contact them.

It kind of defeats the purpose, you guys!
 

Twilight_guy

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My first thought... 'well some guy just got his WoW character liquidated'.

Blizzard's games have lots of money in virtual assets. It a shame to hear about them being hacked, but not surprising. In the same way I'm not surprised when a bank gets robed, I'm not surprised here.
 

Brentpool

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Of course this happens on the day I renew my WoW subscription for shits and giggles....
 

Lunar Templar

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Charli said:
But yeah, *sigh* get ready for a fresh wave of gold sellers/farmers on your realms. Sorry US.
doesn't bother me :D after i stopped playing D3, its pretty much an abandoned account

but i am getting tired of hearing this kinda stuff, and i hope these, and every other ass hat hacker like these twats get hit by a buss on principle
 

Ashannon Blackthorn

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LetalisK said:
And because Blizzard is a company with a half decent PR department, this will be promptly buried.
Yes like how their CEO wrote a huge blog, and posted it to every conceiveable means of online communication Blizzard has. Yep, certainly buried.
 

Dendio

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I'm tired of hearing company after company get hacked. If they want us to continue to use credit cards in confidence they need to protect our information!
 

Yureina

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Redlin5 said:
My thoughts exactly. I'm just tired of hacking incursion after hacking incursion...
I wonder if it is the same people doing all of these hacks. For some reason, that would not surprise me. :eek:

Fappy said:
I agree, I--- wait, holy crap I haven't see you around in awhile!
Hai. :D

I show up less than usual, but I still lurk around. :)
 

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Dendio said:
I'm tired of hearing company after company get hacked. If they want us to continue to use credit cards in confidence they need to protect our information!
Like they just left all the info out in the open.

When something like this happens, why does everyone always assume it's the company's fault?