Battle.net attacked, users advised to change passwords immediately
By Tim Colwill on August 10, 2012 at 11:13 am
This morning’s public service announcement comes courtesy of Blizzard, who are advising players that their Battle.net service was recently attacked and a large number of email addresses and passwords stolen.
The passwords were encrypted using Secure Remote Protocol and Blizzard is quite sure they’ll be almost impossible to decipher, but is recommending all players on North American servers (that includes us, Australians) change their password immediately.
Answers to the secret question-and-answer system are believed to have been taken as well, but no financial information or credit card details is believed to have been compromised. More information on the details of the attack can be found here.
Source: Blizzard
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well, i guess everyone seen that coming from a mile away..
Had my CC used for fraudulent transactions yesterday, not sure if related but its a strange coincidence.
lol, i called this when i heard about the diablo3 real money auction house.
suddenly became worth it to hack blizzard…..
Suprised at how many sites I needed to change passwords on because of this. I must be getting lazy.
psychofruiterer,
People have been Hacking blizzard and battle.net for ages. Bots can actually manage to pop into games and not “technically” exist on the realm. The battle.net website and database are no different.
Bit of payback for their Diablo 3 Always Online DRM perhaps?
Probably, but it doesn’t benefit anyone at the end of the day, esp those of us who’ve had personal info stolen.
Diablo 3 will be the last game which requires an online account that I’ll buy. Between Blizzard and Sony, I’ve had my personal info taken from hacks enough times. I prefer offline play anyway.
Might be gold sellers getting ready for the WoW expansion next month. I will be dumping my email address for Battlenet and grabbing a new gmail one. The email addresses they took will get spammed to death.
Oh my, but i thought it was never Battle.net that gets compromised.
Why if you ise their authenticator token/app?
Apparently they got that info 2 so your screwed change authenticator and password
Considering you cannot change your secret question….wtf Blizzard
aliensf,
From the Blizzard site:
In the coming days, we’ll be prompting players on North American servers to change their secret questions and answers through an automated process. Additionally, we’ll prompt mobile authenticator users to update their authenticator software.
Blizzard have a link for more info. China seems to have missed out:
Here’s a summary of the data that we know was illegally accessed:
North American-based accounts, including players from Latin America, Australia, New Zealand, and Southeast Asia
Email addresses
Answers to secret security questions
Cryptographically scrambled versions of passwords (not actual passwords) Information associated with the Mobile Authenticator
Information associated with the Dial-in Authenticator
Information associated with Phone Lock, a security system associated with Taiwan accounts only
Accounts from all global regions outside of China (including Europe and Russia) Email addresses
China-based accounts Unaffected
At this time, there’s no evidence that financial information of any kind has been accessed. This includes credit cards, billing addresses, names, or other payment information.
FFS this is becoming a pain in the ass.
Instantly changed my password to a 20 character randomly generated password. Yeah good luck hacking that one in the future.
Pretty tricksy of you to be able to change to a 20 character password.
Isn’t the password field for battlenet only 16 characters?
:D
As Psychofruiterer said, pretty crazy you changing your password to 20 characters when the limit is 16. Sure you changed your battlenet password? Not say, your online banking one by accident?
well.. sucked in Blizzard, that’s all I can say ;)