EPTyou cant change your original email without knowing the secret answer... and from what i know, thats been in place for a while now...
somethings not adding up here yo
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Steelo_Rivers
United States1968 Posts
you cant change your original email without knowing the secret answer... and from what i know, thats been in place for a while now... somethings not adding up here yo | ||
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Inschato
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TheToast
United States4808 Posts
Anyway it's better than steam. About a year and a half ago they locked my account due to suspicion of account hacking (never did find out if this was really the case or not) which is fine, but they don't have a customer service hotline. The only way to deal with them is via email, which can get frusterating. | ||
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UniversalSnip
9871 Posts
On May 17 2012 22:33 storkfan wrote: what the hell how do they get stolen. you can just brute force it with a dictionary attack? does the client leak the hash check This is what I'm wondering as well. I'm more inclined to think it's something like people engineering things like your birthday out of you in game, or linking you to keyloggers. | ||
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Serejai
6007 Posts
I've also experienced some shady things with Blizzard firsthand. I made a new email address and created a Battle.Net account with it. This remained dormant for nearly a year until I added a copy of WoW to it. This email had never before been entered ANYWHERE nor had I even checked it after the BNet verification email. Within a day of adding WoW to the account I started getting gold selling spam and phising emails with keyloggers attached to them. Same exact thing happened with an account I made specifically for SC2. I don't entirely know what's going on or why, but I know that out of the 7-8 email addresses I use the only ones to have gotten spam in the last 5-6 years are ones tied to Bnet accounts and the few people I know who have had accounts hacked have been virus-free and unlikely to have been bruteforced. My wife's account was also recently compromised and she uses an authenticator as well. That didn't stop some guy from hacking it, though. Again, not sure how anything but Blizzard could be the fail point in a situation like that. | ||
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UniversalSnip
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Serejai
6007 Posts
On May 18 2012 04:16 UniversalSnip wrote: lol serejai. They told you their passwords, so you know they can't be bruteforced, and the only failpoint is blizzard? I am skeptical of the complete truth of what you've said. I don't follow. Where did I say they told me their passwords? | ||
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Lysenko
Iceland2128 Posts
On May 18 2012 02:41 Serejai wrote: I don't entirely know what's going on or why, but I know that out of the 7-8 email addresses I use the only ones to have gotten spam in the last 5-6 years are ones tied to Bnet accounts and the few people I know who have had accounts hacked have been virus-free and unlikely to have been bruteforced. My primary WoW account is on an email that I don't give out for any other purpose, and I have had exactly zero spam over six years. Meanwhile, the account I use for untrusted vendors etc. gets tons of WoW phishing emails despite not being associated with a battle.net account. I think it's random chance. | ||
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UniversalSnip
9871 Posts
On May 18 2012 06:03 Serejai wrote: I don't follow. Where did I say they told me their passwords? You have no other way to verify what they're telling you. It's worthless, biased, self protecting hearsay if they didn't. | ||
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Serejai
6007 Posts
On May 18 2012 08:47 UniversalSnip wrote: You have no other way to verify what they're telling you. It's worthless, biased, self protecting hearsay if they didn't. That's pretty ignorant. Of course there are ways of telling how secure a password is other than blurting it out. Here's one of dozens of ways to judge the anti-bruteforce capability of a password: http://howsecureismypassword.net/ It doesn't really matter what the actual characters are and it doesn't take a genius to realize that a 14-16 character password is not going to be bruteforced by a small time gold selling company in China in a few weeks or months. Not to mention the people that hack accounts aren't interested in specific accounts. They're not going to waste years of resources trying to bruteforce some random account when they could be picking off hundreds or thousands of other accounts with easier passwords. | ||
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Backpack
United States1776 Posts
They are free if you have a smartphone and/or iPod Touch. http://us.battle.net/support/en/article/battle-net-mobile-authenticator-faq Or if you don't, its only $6.50 for the keychain. http://us.battle.net/support/en/article/battle-net-authenticator-faq#q1 Really, if you have more than one game tied to your bnet account, it's stupid not to have one. | ||
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UniversalSnip
9871 Posts
On May 18 2012 10:09 Serejai wrote: That's pretty ignorant. Of course there are ways of telling how secure a password is other than blurting it out. Here's one of dozens of ways to judge the anti-bruteforce capability of a password: http://howsecureismypassword.net/ It doesn't really matter what the actual characters are and it doesn't take a genius to realize that a 14-16 character password is not going to be bruteforced by a small time gold selling company in China in a few weeks or months. Not to mention the people that hack accounts aren't interested in specific accounts. They're not going to waste years of resources trying to bruteforce some random account when they could be picking off hundreds or thousands of other accounts with easier passwords. No, because I don't trust your friend to be honest about how he got screwed. | ||
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metbull
United States404 Posts
but I hear ya. having to wade through Blizz CS just to get back your stuff. not fun. | ||
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Starparty
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