Yeah, according to Blizzard, nothing happened. http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5149619846
It's aggravating, but we can't be sure what happened.
Blizzard's response is actually interesting. Not in what they said, but in what they did not say. See below.
One the other hand you have galore of players saying they have been hacked for various reasons. Hundreds if not thousands of responses.
Blizzard you would hope would want to give an honest response. However, in my experience, it is very difficult if not impossible to have a company admit something on their side allowed hacking. That is assuming they would make no further money after a game sale. So when you combine that with the fact Blizzard will be making a ton of money in the future for a feature that depends on the customers trust you get them in the situation of deny, deny, deny.
And for the players, you can't filter out the real ones from the fake ones. Some certainly are making it up. Some others have been hacked from the traditional sense on the player end. But when you have
so many, some saying despite authenticators, some showing logs of their character giving away items to a lvl 1, and other signs of hacking it makes me think.
Something is amiss here. I've read through the Blizzard response, and here's another thing. They have not stated one way or another actually whether Battle.net. Is compromised. They never talk about it. The whole post is filled with generalizations that while technically true don't address this situation. It's a cookie cutter response.
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" From the blizzard response"
We'd like to take a moment to address the recent reports that suggested that Battle.net® and Diablo® III may have been compromised.
So they are going to talk about Battle.net and Diablo III directly? Historically, the release of a new game -- such as a World of Warcraft® expansion -- will result in an increase in reports of individual account compromises, and that's exactly what we're seeing now with Diablo III.
True. I wonder why that is? The players who migrate over from WoW or other games don't get any stupider.We know how frustrating it can be to become the victim of account theft, and as always, we're dedicated to doing everything we can to help our players keep their Battle.net accounts safe -- and we appreciate everyone who's doing their part to help protect their accounts as well.
True. But my friends who have been hacked would disagree. Especially how they get hundreds of false emails about fakes claiming their accounts were hacked but when it happens for real they hear nothing.You can read about ways to help keep your account secure, along with some of the internal and external measures we have in place to help us achieve our security goals, at our account security website here:
www.battle.net/security.
Nothing wrong with that. Good, goodWe also wanted to reassure you that the Battle.net Authenticator and Battle.net Mobile Authenticator (a free app for iPhone and Android devices) continue to be some of the most effective measures we offer to help players protect themselves against account compromises, and we encourage everyone to take advantage of them. In addition, we also recently introduced a new service called Battle.net SMS Protect, which allows you to use your text-enabled cell phone to unlock a locked Battle.net account, recover your account name, approve a password reset, or remove a lost Authenticator. Optionally, you can set up the Battle.net SMS Protect system to send you a text message whenever unusual activity is detected on your account, keeping you aware of important (and possibly unwanted) changes."
These are good things. But this is all so far generic stuff. Not addressing Battle.net itself. All these so far are security measures the player can use. But players are all using these things and still getting hacked. My friend is my personal connection, but I've heard it hundreds of other times as well. But they still rely on being safe during the handshake. All the security and defenses are on the player side. But what about Battle.net itself being comromised? When are we going to talk about the orginal sentence?[Rest of post is blizzard saying if they notice something unusual they ask for more info]
Oh, I see. You are going to talk about it directly. But you spend the whole post telling players how they must beef up security. Nothing at Blizzard could possibly be wrong.
After telling my Dad this situation he said it reminds him of the Ford Pinto situation. It is cheaper to roll back accounts then it would be to admit any error on their part.
P.S. Yes I mad. My friend over the night got hacked. He has all the security functions blizzard mention but still got hacked. He said it happened after a night of public games then going to sleep.
