blizzard hacked
Like many other big companies, Blizzard has been hacked, but doesn’t seem to be as bad as many others.
As of August 4th, the hack occurred, but “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.”
They go on to say: “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.”
So while this is serious business, you shouldn’t panic, but take precautions all the same.
Source:Â http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/securityupdate.html
