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Originally Posted by Mow Yun
While there is almost no sure way to ensure that one's computer is 100% hack proof, I find it bordering on absurd that if the compromise was on the user end, that it was only the Diablo 3 account, and not Starcraft 2, World of Warcraft, or any other account, even financial details such as Paypal or saved credit card info which was claimed to accessed.
Because hacking to gain control of a video game account is far more monetarily advantageous than compromising a bank account...
I'm not saying its not possible, but for this kind of scale it seems like kind of flimsy that every single one of these people have poor personal security which has not resulted in any financial loss but only video game inventory loss.
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Hacking into major institutes system is more likely to get the FBI on your ass than into your regular joe/sally computer. It does happen though as we have seen in Sony case but this is usually done by a different group of people and more often than not, without monetary motivation.
WoW and recently Diablo 3 is targeted for the monetary value inherent in it. Actually there have been cases where people who had their Diablo 3 account compromised and the culprit reactivated their WoW account to strip their assets.
As for paypal and credit cards, i ll have to research it up. My initial guess is that such intrusion are more prolific than game accounts and more likely to draw the enforcement agencies attention.