Important Security Update

[SinR]

*points to his keychain authenticator*

Well I'm still 98% secure. Can't remove a physical authenticator without a scan of my photo ID

[cyan421]

scary times, apple and blizzard in the same week.

[nekobaka]

Its been so many years that I forgot there was a security question.

[Nerraw]

China Unaffected... can't imagine why...

Blizzard doesn't run the Chinese servers directly, that's why.

[Malkazam]

I didn't play since 5 month but still i just change a few minute ago my password on battle.net (US and EU).

I want to thanks MMO Champ for this news. i think a lot of people don't know about this situation.

[nogard64]

Authenticators ftw.

haha last summer I was hacked, I was playing on a brand new computer, win 7 64bit. Haven't even had time to surf porn and get trojans and malware.

I suspected there was a compromise at Blizzards end, because no matter how much the blizzard Fan-BEEPS (can't even use that word) defend blizzard, they are not invincible.

About the same time last summer watched as other people also get hacked at the same time as me.... ever noticed the hacks come in waves? like all the sudden you see a few thousand people get hacked in a week, then its quiet for a month, then it happens again, hmmmmm....... almost like some one is getting a HUGE LONG list of screen names and passwords from a special source of screen names and passwords??????

yeah sure put my tin foil hat back on right, you DELUSIONAL blizzard FAN-BEEPS!

[Arbs]

lol

sorry gotta laugh, when this happened to Trion at the end of last year I read dozens of posts by people mocking them for being a crap company with bad security policies

happens to blizzard - "eventually everything gets hacked, welcome to the interwebz"

LOL jokes

Ya but Trion didn't catch it fast anough they lost tons of personal info, Blizzard didn't and they caught it after5 days thats fast and Only NA Emails & encrypticed paswords, SQ & SA got taken thats all. An it very expensive to uncrypted all of those and majority of those will be useless in a couple days.

[Karizee]

If Blizz didn't notice til 5 days ago, this information has long been sold off to everyone and their mother.

[Temma]

It kinda makes me hope Lulzboat is back.

[Purple]

I made it clear when Blizzard decided to go with current Battle.net structure that using the user's e-mail, and connecting all accounts to a single e-mail or username, rather than separate usernames for each game, was a terrible idea. And people picking up your e-mail, even without your password, is why. Yeah. I have my keychain authenticator, but I always thought it was a bad idea.

This issue here, would have happened no matter what, I imagine, but I'll still appalled. I expected more of Blizzard, since, like many of you, I trusted them with my information. I don't want assurances, and I'll accept that I have to change up my information.. but all I really want is to see them go after the people responsible, legally, like the wrath of God coming down on the heretics. That is the only apology that will satisfy me. I want the punishment of those responsible to be so severe and resonating that others will think twice, though, obviously, nothing will sway the truly ambitious.

[tripleh]

Guessing it was anon. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5faKC38L9Lg Activisions ceo pissed them off months ago with call of duty . Anon leaks the CEO's private information . lol

[Kathranis]

It kinda makes me hope Lulzboat is back.

Why would you ever support a group of people who intentionally hack and steal personal data from companies and then release it on the internet or sell it to third parties? Just because they have lulz in their name? Because they claim they're "fighting the man" or whatever? Give me a break. The only people they hurt are consumers.


Anyway, surprised this hasn't happened sooner, frankly. Glad to know they at least encrypt their passwords, unlike some other companies that have gotten hacked in the last year or two.

Might just go ahead and create a new email for my battle.net account.

[Deleted]

haha last summer I was hacked, I was playing on a brand new computer, win 7 64bit. Haven't even had time to surf porn and get trojans and malware.

You played on a different computer before that though. They could've gotten your password from that.
Also:

About the same time last summer watched as other people also get hacked at the same time as me.... ever noticed the hacks come in waves? like all the sudden you see a few thousand people get hacked in a week, then its quiet for a month, then it happens again, hmmmmm....... almost like some one is getting a HUGE LONG list of screen names and passwords from a special source of screen names and passwords??????

Lots and lots of people use the same email/username, and the same password as well, in many different games or websites.
When one game/website gets hacked, the hackers then have a long list of those usernames/passwords, and they ARE going to try them out on other games/websites as well.
If people used the same login information in a game that got hacked, as they do in WoW, it isn't Blizzard's security at fault if their WoW account then gets hacked later.

[Deleted]

Wth Blizzard, unable to paste a chosen password into the field on battlenet? I use KeePass and internal password generator and I am supposed to type in the current impossibly long and tricky password and then twice more a new impossibly long and tricky password??? FU Blizzard, it didn't use to be this way, I want my pasting comfort not broken fingers. Before this I changed password regularly, now not anymore. Unless you want me to type in a simple password or my username ... Hm, come to think of it, that is exactly what I did on Steam where pasting is disabled for the client, I made up a simple password.

Of all the services, Bliizard and steam are the only ones who don't allow pasting. And now Blizzard gets hacked. Well done -.-

ps: I am so happy I never trusted them with my credit card, prepaid cards ftw!

[Syio]

I definitely appreciate the openness and brutal honesty of this notice. Thank you, Blizzard. It's not fun at all, but I approve of the transparency in this situation and will take steps to minimise the damage.

[Redblade]

Wth Blizzard, unable to paste a chosen password into the field on battlenet? I use KeePass and internal password generator and I am supposed to type in the current impossibly long and tricky password and then twice more a new impossibly long and tricky password??? FU Blizzard

Had the same issue and thought about the same about Blizz when I realized, most retarded fucking design, had to use a g15 macro to auto type the passwords for me.

[skitzin]

I expected more of Blizzard, since, like many of you, I trusted them with my information. I don't want assurances, and I'll accept that I have to change up my information.. but all I really want is to see them go after the people responsible, legally, like the wrath of God coming down on the heretics. That is the only apology that will satisfy me. I want the punishment of those responsible to be so severe and resonating that others will think twice, though, obviously, nothing will sway the truly ambitious.

The sad part is many of these hackers live in regions of the Earth where the are either no laws or the local authorities do not care as long as they aren't targeted, making it impossible in many cases to fully punish these people by legal means.

[Deleted]

Not like anything that bad happened, they didn't get passwords and most importantly they didn't get CC info.

[Rigimi44]

Sounds similar to the Great PS3 Hack of 2011. Brb, changing passwords.

[jeanbono]

The sad part is many of these hackers live in regions of the Earth where the are either no laws or the local authorities do not care as long as they aren't targeted, making it impossible in many cases to fully punish these people by legal means.

The batman has no jurisdiction.