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Diablo 3 accounts hacked, gold and items stolen
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NaturalHigh
Member
I'm surprised the servers were up long enough for the hackers to get into.
Neuromancer
Member
Oh shit
Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
Is this effecting people that have an authenticator tied to their account as well???
Glass Rebel
Member
Is the Auction House affected?
It will prevent hacking of in game assets, your accounts are fair game.
BlazingDarkness
Member
I don't think I was online at the time, thankfully
Sucks for those affected though
Sucks for those affected though
Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
Seems very hearsayish at least in terms of authenticator based accounts getting hacked. Sucks if that's the case, but I shall wait and see if we get more concrete info on at least that aspect of all of this.
nelsonroyale
Member
Crappy always on line crap
Backfoggen
Banned
Donlan pls.
FieryBalrog
Member
Get authenticator and mobile alerts if you haven't already.
It's theoretically possible to get hacked with an authenticator, but it was always hard (required real time hacking and makes it obvious to the victim). Furthermore it's much harder now that the authenticator isn't required to log in every time.
It's theoretically possible to get hacked with an authenticator, but it was always hard (required real time hacking and makes it obvious to the victim). Furthermore it's much harder now that the authenticator isn't required to log in every time.
BlazingDarkness
Member
NoRéN;38069103 said:
Diabol pls
If the Authenticator accounts have been hacked then that would be pretty good evidence of some kind of SQL dump.
Though, it would be pretty shitty of Blizzard to not store account credentials in an encrypted state, I'm thinking that these 'widespread' hacks aren't actually as widespread and is just keyloggers doin' what keyloggers do.
Just cause someone who works with Eurogamer got hacked doesn't mean he wasn't keylogged.
SteveWinwood
Member
Jesus christ.
Stupid shit. Even when the servers are up my ping is some ungodly high number. Game has been handled terribly. I should have stopped at sc2. I don't know why I bought this game.
Should have read the op.
Stupid shit. Even when the servers are up my ping is some ungodly high number. Game has been handled terribly. I should have stopped at sc2. I don't know why I bought this game.
Should have read the op.
Blizzard games are basically math formulas at this point.
djplaeskool
Member
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The fallout from this could be interesting, especially if authenticators are not providing ample security.
Somehow I doubt that.
Everyone should use an authenticator.
The fallout from this could be interesting, especially if authenticators are not providing ample security.
Somehow I doubt that.
Everyone should use an authenticator.
Yeah, and someone forgot to carry the one somewhere and fucked everything up.
OP doesn't say anything about Authenticators and doesn't actually have any proof of some injection attack.
As an aside, since when did the SQL injection become the new thing that journalists assume when something is hacked? SQL is the new DDoS.
I'm certain that Blizzard would encrypt account credentials so even if there was an SQL dump there would be no way to get passwords, sounds fishy.
Had something like this happen to me this morning. Was playing D3 when I got kicked to the login screen with the notice "Another computer has logged in on this account". In a frenzy, I did a quick scan for keyloggers, jumped over to my account management and changed my password, and then got the authenticator.
Came back into the game and still had everything on my characters, but yeah. If the notice I got was legit, I got hacked while in mid-play.
Got a smartphone? Then it's a free app. Do it now, unless you don't mind risking all the hours of gameplay on your characters.
Came back into the game and still had everything on my characters, but yeah. If the notice I got was legit, I got hacked while in mid-play.
jokkir said:
Got a smartphone? Then it's a free app. Do it now, unless you don't mind risking all the hours of gameplay on your characters.
Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
Your crazy not to.
I said in the |OT| Diablo III thread the day before the release that we should create a separate topic on GAF urging ever GAFer with a B.Net account to make sure they had an authenticator setup. I never made a thread though. :/
It's probably about as widespread as account hacks in WoW in that it's extremely widespread if you don't protect your account in the proper ways.
Banana Kid
Member
I've never gotten an authenticator because the idea of tethering my account to another password and requiring me to have my phone or that keychain dongle whenever I log in always seemed like too much of a pain.
Maybe I should finally take the plunge and secure all my shit.
Maybe I should finally take the plunge and secure all my shit.
it's common sense at this point considering the amount of account thefts on WoW and to some extent on SC2. using an Authenticator is so simple.
Metalmurphy
Member
Probably has something to do with the dozens of weekly emails I get about my bnet account that's about to be banned unless I give them my login info.
But, an Eurogamer writer wouldn't be that stupid... right?
don't even have a bnet account associated to that email lol
But, an Eurogamer writer wouldn't be that stupid... right?
As I said before:
"Got a smartphone? Then it's a free app. Do it now, unless you don't mind risking all the hours of gameplay on your characters."
You only have to enter it once a week, unless you're logging in from a different computer each time you play.
Should have read OP.
Seems like there is a server side exploit if even people with authenticators are getting hacked.
Banana Kid
Member
I didn't know that. I'll totally punch in a code once a week.
Fuck it, I'll authenticate.