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Germany1338 Posts
On August 11 2012 07:53 Kvz wrote:
in the last day my cell phone has been spammed with telemarketers (hasn't happened ever) and im getting spam emails. is this coincidence or due to this security breach?
No, if you had your phone registered in the battle.net database, it's likely that this isn't a coincidence. Contrary to destroying someones ladder rank for fun, which isn't profitable, selling stolen addresses and phone numbers to advertisers actually does generate profits for the hackers, so those are some of the things to be expected.
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On August 11 2012 08:24 MisterD wrote:Show nested quote +On August 11 2012 07:53 Kvz wrote:
in the last day my cell phone has been spammed with telemarketers (hasn't happened ever) and im getting spam emails. is this coincidence or due to this security breach? No, if you had your phone registered in the battle.net database, it's likely that this isn't a coincidence. Contrary to destroying someones ladder rank for fun, which isn't profitable, selling stolen addresses and phone numbers to advertisers actually does generate profits for the hackers, so those are some of the things to be expected.
Probably worth plugging this to all the Americans effected.
https://www.donotcall.gov/
Hopefully there's something equivalent in other countries.
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I've had my account hacked twice. The first time, I was supposedly selling gold to friends on WoW, and the 2nd time, some one was trying to sell a D3 account under my user name.
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While this sucks to hear im glad blizzard told us right away.
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"At this time, we’ve found no evidence that financial information such as credit cards, billing addresses, or real names were compromised"
But they probably don't have evidence that they weren't compromised right?
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On August 11 2012 12:07 Elegance wrote:
"At this time, we’ve found no evidence that financial information such as credit cards, billing addresses, or real names were compromised"
But they probably don't have evidence that they weren't compromised right?
In this case, the lack of evidence (yet) could be evidence that they weren't compromised 
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Sounds pretty bad, but i have faith in blizzard. Just gonna change my password and no worries ya kno? people shudnt freak out.
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On August 11 2012 05:01 discomatt wrote:
Finally, botnets aren't usually used to harness CPU power... the idea is for the zombie computer to never realize they're infected. Stealing CPU cycles isn't a good way to do this. You're much better off simply renting a cluster of high-powered floating point processors and using that.
Botnets are mainly used to send tone of spam or perform DDoS attacks, which essentially steals CPU cycles, so I assume they wont be concerned to add some additional CPU overhead to their zombie net  . Essentially they can do what they want with botnets, and this include hash cracking. And for them its free, so its quite cheaper than renting a cluster of servers.
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Bosnia-Herzegovina261 Posts
Wasn't this done so they could screw players in that WoW tournament? Someone was getting DDoSed constantly there and a couple of accounts were hacked.
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Personally pretty happy they came out and addressed worries of the community before rumors started first. Not too worried based on what was said.
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My account got hacked that day. Only good thing about it the guy reactivated my WoW account and paid 55$ for a server/race transfer. I'm enjoying some free time -_-
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On August 11 2012 22:04 KoiKetv wrote:
My account got hacked that day. Only good thing about it the guy reactivated my WoW account and paid 55$ for a server/race transfer. I'm enjoying some free time -_-
Thats the good guy hacker, he just gives you free stuff while you try to figure out what happened
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So I changed my password, but the next day I forgot it so I had to change it again lol.
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On August 11 2012 22:04 KoiKetv wrote:
My account got hacked that day. Only good thing about it the guy reactivated my WoW account and paid 55$ for a server/race transfer. I'm enjoying some free time -_-
 why does that never happen to me.
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The email I used for my Battle.net account got hacked either today or not much longer ago, I can't access that email anymore. That can't be a co-incidence, it must be due to this Battle.net server hack.
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blizzard handled this very good!
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On August 12 2012 15:29 Zzoram wrote:
The email I used for my Battle.net account got hacked either today or not much longer ago, I can't access that email anymore. That can't be a co-incidence, it must be due to this Battle.net server hack.
Did you use the same secret question and answer on the B.net account and email account?
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How do I change my answers to the secret questions?
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I lose all my items on WoW and D3 thanks blizzard
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On August 13 2012 16:41 KaluGOSU wrote:
I lose all my items on WoW and D3 thanks blizzard
This is most likely unrelated. Those who are capable of breaching Blizzard security, are not interested in your game accounts. They have better things to gain.
This besides the fact that, if you had a decent password to begin with, there is no way that it could have been breached already.
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