| -Archangel- Croatia. August 14 2012 20:22. Posts 3598 | Profile # |
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| Serek Mexico. August 15 2012 08:27. Posts 327 | Profile # |
I was about to post this same link until I saw your post. The article says that Blizzard's claim that the passwords are safe is not verifiable because we don't have enough public information about their security setup. It goes on to speculate how much processing power would it require to crack the passwords in a couple scenarios. According to their exercise, with the information we have available it would not be overly difficult to crack the weakest passwords in a relatively short period of time.
If I were to venture a guess, I'd say most weak passwords were cracked even before we were informed of the breach (remember there was a gap between the time Blizzard found out and the public announcement). There are bound to be some compromised accounts where Bnet password is the same as the Bnet email and those would be first to fall.
So who benefits? Easiest way to cash up on this is by quickly transferring gold/items to farmer accounts, since there's already an "infrastructure" to handle this (WoW hackers have a lot of experience in this regard). Rainbow tables and dictionaries will improve by adding thousands of new passwords to their databases, facilitating future hacks. People may have further non-Bnet accounts compromised if hackers gain access to their emails. And remember we don't know yet whether billing information was also accessed.
So no, I don't feel this is a non-issue as others in this thread do. |
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| skyR Canada. August 16 2012 10:19. Posts 11172 | Profile # | |
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| SilSol Sweden. August 16 2012 10:24. Posts 2665 | Profile # | |
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| rebuffering Canada. August 17 2012 10:39. Posts 1388 | Profile # |
| Hey guys, battle.net sent me an email, saying someone changed the account email address, and i can no longer log into battle.net, or SC2, is my only option to Call up Blizzard support? tried making a ticket, but its asking me to log in to make the support ticket, so, i cant do it obviously. any help is appreciated. |
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| Nick_54 United States. August 17 2012 22:56. Posts 2114 | Profile Blog # |
| Blizzard told me there was suspicious activity with my account, so I changed my password again. I think this means that they might have been trying to access my account, but couldnt get the password. Any thoughts? |
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| jakethesnake Canada. August 17 2012 23:03. Posts 487 | Profile # |
On August 17 2012 22:56 Nick_54 wrote:
Blizzard told me there was suspicious activity with my account, so I changed my password again. I think this means that they might have been trying to access my account, but couldnt get the password. Any thoughts?
Same here. At least they have a way to change the secret question now, although it is terrible (I couldn't even read the whole question). It was a hassle, but makes me glad I changed my password when I did. |
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| guN-viCe United States. August 20 2012 00:52. Posts 543 | Profile # |
| My account has been hacked. I called their support number and they gave me instructions on what to do. Now I'm just waiting. |
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| Darth Irule United States. August 20 2012 13:28. Posts 1 | Profile # |
I too have gotten an email saying my email was being changed. Tried to log in, password/email wasnt working. Tried to answer my security question but that one was changed.
Time to call blizzard as soon as their support line opens tomorrow morning.... |
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 EvilTeletubby Baltimore, USA. August 20 2012 15:58. Posts 21021 | Profile Blog # |
Fucking Christ.
I feel like murdering somebody now. |
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| rebuffering Canada. August 23 2012 00:51. Posts 1388 | Profile # |
| omg, calling blizzard support to try and get my account back, they tell me, sorry our queues are full, than it hangs up on me. Call back 5 mins later, it says estimated 25 mins wait. Jesus christ, i hope call support cost you a lot of money Blizz, tired of your bullshit. |
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 Silidons United States. August 25 2012 08:11. Posts 2785 | Profile Blog # |
Yeah one of my accounts just got hacked but I got it back. I had forgotten about it, all it had was diablo 2 & d2 lod on it anyhow.
So they did indeed get the passwords |
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| Phanekim United States. August 27 2012 13:59. Posts 649 | Profile # |
Luckily for me no one has hacked me yet.....
Will changing password be enough? |
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| nBk August 27 2012 14:08. Posts 170 | Profile Blog # |
Just tried to login and this is what I am greeted with...
Due to suspicious activity, this account has been locked. A message has been sent to this account’s email address containing details on how to resolve this issue. Visit http://us.battle.net/account/locked.html for more information.
Lovely... I was just on it a little over an hour ago too.. x.x
edit: resolved. Scared me for a minute.Last edit: 2012-08-27 14:14:36 |
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| StarStruck August 27 2012 14:10. Posts 18335 | Profile # |
I thought this would happen eventually.
Okay then. |
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| Mechanism4 United States. August 27 2012 14:28. Posts 20 | Profile # |
My account was one of the ones that got hacked. I had changed my password a little bit shortly after seeing the news but it wasn't enough for me.
I was playing sc2 one of the nights a little while ago. Then next day I got home from work and found that they had changed my email used to login. I was able to get my account back by doing the 'I think I got hacked'.
I am pleased to have gotten a response and a fix, pretty much, after about 8 hours. My sc2 was still locked for about a day after but I was able to play sc2 again after a short while.Last edit: 2012-08-27 14:44:00 |
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| Belial88 United States. August 27 2012 14:35. Posts 5217 | Profile Blog # |
Should I change my pass still?
So is just like a single guy/group hacking into accounts and stripping them? Why would anyone bother stealing an SC2 account, especially when it's so easy to get it returned back to you? |
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| nBk August 27 2012 15:32. Posts 170 | Profile Blog # |
On August 27 2012 14:35 Belial88 wrote:
Should I change my pass still?
So is just like a single guy/group hacking into accounts and stripping them? Why would anyone bother stealing an SC2 account, especially when it's so easy to get it returned back to you?
I would to be safe. I saw this announcement the very day it came about and never changed mine and almost lost my account today all because i thought "Oh it could never happen to me, my account isn't worth anything, just an SC2 account." |
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| 6NR United States. August 27 2012 15:38. Posts 1244 | Profile # | |
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| SolHeiM Sweden. August 27 2012 15:41. Posts 1260 | Profile Blog # |
On August 27 2012 15:32 nBk wrote:
Show nested quote +On August 27 2012 14:35 Belial88 wrote:
Should I change my pass still?
So is just like a single guy/group hacking into accounts and stripping them? Why would anyone bother stealing an SC2 account, especially when it's so easy to get it returned back to you?
I would to be safe. I saw this announcement the very day it came about and never changed mine and almost lost my account today all because i thought "Oh it could never happen to me, my account isn't worth anything, just an SC2 account."
You can't think that you "just have an SC2 account," because the hackers have no idea what's on your account. All they know is an account name and a password. If there is nothing to steal, they will use your account as a botting account, where they'll buy a game and start using it.
My brother got his level 47 Witch Doctor account hacked, and the hackers leveled his character to 60, decked him out in full GF% gear and farmed for a couple of days before my brother figured out that he had been hacked. |
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