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ohnoyoudidnt

(1,858 posts)
Fri Aug 10, 2012, 12:28 AM Aug 2012

ATTN: Blizzard customers: Blizzard has been hacked

Blizzard Entertainment has fallen victim to a security breach and is warning customers to change their passwords.

In a statement issued by Blizzard's president and co-founder Michael Morhaime, the company said that it had discovered an "unauthorised and illegal access" into its internal network earlier this week, on 4 August, affecting Battle.net accounts. So far, the company has found no evidence that financial or billing information was stolen, although it has confirmed that some data from its servers that was illegally accessed has some security implications.

For North American-based accounts, which will include players from Latin America, Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asia, the attackers were able to access email addresses, answers to security questions, "cryptographically scrambled versions of passwords", information related to Blizzard's mobile and dial-in authenticators, and the Taiwanese phone lock security system.

http://www.zdnet.com/blizzard-hacked-warns-users-to-change-passwords-7000002425/

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ATTN: Blizzard customers: Blizzard has been hacked (Original Post) ohnoyoudidnt Aug 2012 OP
Thanks for the heads up. Lone_Star_Dem Aug 2012 #1
These ass clowns are just DETERMINED to suck, aren't they? Systematic Chaos Aug 2012 #2

Systematic Chaos

(8,601 posts)
2. These ass clowns are just DETERMINED to suck, aren't they?
Fri Aug 10, 2012, 01:41 AM
Aug 2012

I'm still hoping they can transform Diablo 3 into much more than it presently is, but who knows.

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