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Diablo 3 accounts hacked, gold and items stolen
Eurogamer writer gets his Diablo 3 account stolen.
This Diablo 3 soap is even better then Age of Conan and WAR right after release.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-05-21-diablo-3-accounts-hacked-gold-and-items-stolen
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Everyone knows that when accounts get stolen 99.9% of the time it is the users own fault. Everything in that article is speculation.. words like 'suggested' are evidence that the whole article is completely factless. Even the word 'hacked' isn't accurate right now because no one knows why those items went missing.
The art of compromising Battle.net accounts is well known and practiced by this point. It shouldn't surprise anyone that it's been carried over into this game.
I can't imagine why anyone who has a battle.net account wouldn't use a authenticator at this point. If you don't your one mis click on a spam email or using the same email address/password for a web site as battle.net away from loosing your account.
It's interesting to me that this is happening when there are free ways of dealing with it. Heck even the authenticators are cheap and free delivery. So why are people posting about this again? It's the users fault if they get hacked at this point due to the security that Blizz emplemented. It really is. I'm not a Blizz fan when it comes to the direction their company is going but i have to say they did the right thing when it comes to security for their players.
The next month is probably going to be pretty insane with this stuff.
You can now hack 1 account and get access to the loot and items from both WoW and Diablo 3 at the same time. I doubt Blizzard will ever pull their head out of their ass about their online only system in place for Diablo 3, but at least their bodies will be bloodied and broken by the end of this thing and other companies will second guess their adoption of the system.
So why isn't it mandatory then?
Free option requires recent models of mobile phones... not everyone has them.
Hmmm let's see, because you still have to give people freedom. yeah, it's called a choice if you make the wrong one it's not the companies fault.
So then everyone else has to pay for one.
You would think that they would offer a secure service as part of the whole $60 price tag. Seems reasonable to me at least.
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If the freedom is to endanger themselves its not freedom.
Cars don't come with optional seatbelts.
Why doesn't Battlenet use the Steam protection?
Log in on different PC/IP adress and you must enter a password which they e-mail to you.
yeah, if you don't get an authenticator on your account Bliz will break into your account over and over until you get one, increasing thier revenue (or web traffic...downloaded apps count for stock profiles afterall)
They offer a secure system. I've never had an account stolen, hacked or wotever in 15 years. I worked as a computer tech for a while and let me tell you... most peoples computers are a mess. A massive trash of a mess. I have no doubt at all that people who lose accounts do so because they can't maintain a computer properly or click on things they shouldn't.
Obviously since apparently everyone except you are complete idiots they do not warrant protection.
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Yeah, you are smart, so you have never been hacked and everyone else that has been hacked is terrible at maintaining their computers. I guess I didn't look at it that way.
I'm not saying people are idiots, I'm saying some people just don't know how to do some things but might be better at other things. We all have our strengths and weaknesses. I say what I said because I've seen it from experience, not because I automatically think I'm better.
No, I get you. You are blaming the people that are getting hacked instead of Blizzard for not providing them with a more secure service.
lol nah you don't get me. First, show me some proof that anything got hacked. Hacked and acount stolen isn't the same thing. If their servers were hacked then, yes, it's Blizzards fault. But people are saying that's already happened without any sort of proof. They are just pointing the finger at someone else right now because it's easier.
It might have been some kind of internal error that caused account to lose items... we don't know yet. It's strange that things went missing but passwords weren't changed and any item transfers would show the characters that took them on the 'recently played with' section of the social panel.
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As for battle.net, blizzard has done more than they are obligated to when it comes to helping people protect their accounts. But it's so much easier and safer to phish people's account info than to hack servers for information, it's very unlikely anyone is getting them this way.
Now I've said before I think some blizz employees could be selling lists of inactive logins to gold sellers in WoW. That's not hacking, and that's still not blizz's fault that there's a few bad apples working their customer service. And further, it would be too risky to start throwing out active accounts, so it's unlikely something like that happened in this case.
Seriously I don't get it either how people get their bnet acc hacked. It never happened to me and with the amount of illegal I download...
Blizzard does provide a more secure service. It's called the mobile authenticators or the apps for both Android and iPhone. With those, it is virtually impossible to have your account stolen.
Obviously Vannor struck a nerve with you, but he is correct that usually it is the fault of the user for getting account information compromised. Of course this is not true in 100% of cases, but it is the case more often than not. Users fall for phishing emails or install add-ons packaged with keyloggers and GIVE their account credentials away. This is how the vast majority of all gaming accounts are stolen...
There is nothing that Blizzard (or anyone else for that matter) can do about user error.
Um, I just think it would have made sense for them to provide authenticators for those without smart phones with their purchase of Diablo 3. Since so many people get hacked or phished or whatever else, you would think that they would provide a more secure service for the price of the game instead of an additional fee.
I don't really care that people make mistakes and are "stupid" with their accounts. I just think it makes sense for Blizzard to provide a secure experience for those users as well with the $60 price tag.
If someone put forward some sort of motion to make authenticators included with all online games mandatory by law then I'd be all for it.
As it stands though Blizzard and a couple others are the only ones that at least offer some kind of solution at the moment, even if it is optional.
Remember when thousands of accounts got hacked in Rift shortly after release? There was a security loophole that allowed hackers to completely bypass all security. It had literally nothing to do with anything on the user end.
They didn't address it until a player posted on the forums and emailed them with information on their comprimised security. Companies aren't faultless.
With RMT looming on the horizon.....well it'll be interesting to see how this all pans out.
EDIT: By the way, authenticators are more of a money making scheme than anything at this point. Actual hackers couldn't possibly care less whether they exist or not.
My INACTIVE WoW account was hacked right before they did the account merging thing with BNet. I hadn't played in 3 years. It just so happens the same thing happened to thousands of players at that time. Sony has been hacked more times than anyone can count at this point.
Yeah, a lot of people don't have clean computers, don't use different passwords or have strong password complexity. But a lot of people do and a lot of companies suck at securing user information.
Enter a whole new realm of challenge and adventure.
Yup.
In the end, it's going to happen. Over and over again. People will continue to say that the players that got hacked were morons with their accounts. Then someone that knows they are not a moron will get hacked and everyone will call him/her a moron.
A lot of people on Battle.net are going to be hacked or have their accounts stolen. And people are going to bravely defend Blizzard against all those lame people that don't know how to work the interwebz like a smart person.
Fortunately, it also likely means that "always online" recieves a black eye in the process.