Battle.net Hacked

[LongBlade]

A security update has a URL listed in the article. No financial data was lost but there was a loss of some info.

Players and Friends,

Even when you are in the business of fun, not every week ends up being fun. This week, our security team found an unauthorized and illegal access into our internal network here at Blizzard. We quickly took steps to close off this access and began working with law enforcement and security experts to investigate what happened.

At this time, we've found no evidence that financial information such as credit cards, billing addresses, or real names were compromised. Our investigation is ongoing, but so far nothing suggests that these pieces of information have been accessed.

http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/securityupdate.html

[bayonetbrant]

do these hacks seem to happen to Blizzard more than others?  or are Blizzard's just more widely reported b/c of who they are?

[LongBlade]

or are Blizzard's just more widely reported b/c of who they are?

Not sure, but it could be this. With +/- 13 million people playing WoW plus Diablo III, they're kinda like Microsoft and Apple before the iPhone. Everyone hacked Micorsoft because hacking Apple didn't amount to any kind of bragging rights. Toppling WoW? That's an accomplishment.

[Greybriar]

Battle.net Hacked

That was over a month ago. Blizzard didn't even make mention of it for several weeks.

[Nefaro]

LongBlade has the right of it.

The Blizzard MMO, and now Diablo 3, is a massive target for phishing & scammers what with their massive user base and turds willing to buy stuff from Chinese Gold Farmers (against the agreement) who are common customers of these crooks. 

So between email phishing scams and outright hacking people's login info, they hope to log into someone's pilfered World Of Warcraft account and sell off everything that person has collected on their characters over the years.  Then they turn around and sell the in-game gold from that, along with their gold farming take, for real world dollars.

It's lucrative for them.   

"Follow The Money".  That's where you'll find the motive in most things.

[Greybriar]

Nm.