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#27 Oct 17 2013 at 2:54 PM Rating: Decent

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Medieve wrote:

Shiener wrote:

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I have never had an authenticator for Blizz and none of my game accounts were hacked or stripped. I think if every account that was without an authenticator was hacked, we'd hear more about it. Please stop making sh*t up.

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I'm almost POSTIVE that posting this information, and especially posting the e-mail you received, isn't breaching any confidentiality agreements that may be in force, or cannot in any way, shape, or form come back to bite you in your bunghole. [:endsarcasm:] (WHY has that not been added yet?)

If I were you, I'd make vague comments about "a" major company that has security leaks that keeps them hidden, and recommend people get authenticators when they can long with keep different e-mail/password combinations together, basing all this on your background in network security.

I would think someone with a background in network security would know posting what you did is just not a good idea.

I have not posted the "Security Bulletin Notification" email yet only because i have not had time to search for it. It did not come from Blizzard and was in no shape or form labeled confidential. It's public knowledge, were talking about 10mil accounts of one of the most popular games. If you played it, you should not use your same account names, passwords, maybe not even the same email address. That is the only thing to take away from the posts I have made, protect yourself.

I don't recall Forbes being a company that makes stuff up, well no more than a actual news company.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/08/09/its-official-blizzard-hacked-account-information-stolen/

also

http://bit.ly/1i00vAj

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#28 Oct 17 2013 at 2:58 PM Rating: Decent

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Check 4 links down on the second link I posted for the official bulletin released from Blizzard.

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#29 Oct 17 2013 at 7:53 PM Rating: Decent

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Shiener wrote:

Blizzard flat out denied the leak of data however when D3 came out if you didnt have an authenticator you logged in and found your account stripped.

This says that everyone who didn't have an authenticator was hacked.

From your first article:

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Blizzard says that based on their assessment, this data alone is not enough to access accounts, though they are urging players to change their passwords and secret questions to be on the safe side.

All they got was a grip of battle.net email addresses and scrambled passwords. That's a far cry from "Everyone who didn't have an authenticator was hacked". That's the only point I'm making here. You blow it out to be way bigger than it actually was.

If you don't wanna use battle.net due to security issues then that is your prerogative. It wasn't nearly as bad as you'd have people believe it was though. The whole reason it was blown out of proportion in the first place was the RMAH. People were worried about attaching their payment information to Blizzard if there was a security breach.

As for your second link:

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Some data was illegally accessed, including a list of email addresses for global Battle.net users, outside of China. For players on North American servers (which generally includes players from North America, Latin America, Australia, New Zealand, and Southeast Asia) the answer to the personal security question, and information relating to Mobile and Dial-In Authenticators were also accessed. Based on what we currently know, this information alone is NOT enough for anyone to gain access to Battle.net accounts.

We also know that cryptographically scrambled versions of Battle.net passwords (not actual passwords) for players on North American servers were taken. We use Secure Remote Password protocol (SRP) to protect these passwords, which is designed to make it extremely difficult to extract the actual password, and also means that each password would have to be deciphered individually. As a precaution, however, we recommend that players on North American servers change their password. Please click this link to change your password. Moreover, if you have used the same or similar passwords for other purposes, you may want to consider changing those passwords as well.

Both of the articles you linked prove that none of the information that was accessed by hackers was enough to do any damage.

LMGTFY? Brilliant. Now if only the search results you generate would actually support the claim you're trying to make Smiley: glare

Edited, Oct 17th 2013 10:00pm by FilthMcNasty

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