2012-05-28, 00:16 | Link #2081 | |
A Proud Lolicon
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: In front of my computer
Age: 37
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I'm pretty sure my password is case sensitive.
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2012-05-28, 00:19 | Link #2082 |
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Well, at this point, pointing fingers at anyone isn't going to help. Note that I never have and never will expect Blizzard to be hack proof, because that's impossible. But hopefully they'll restore people's shit and make it so you can't log in 10k miles away without triggering something.
However, regardless of user error or server error, I have decided to not use the auction house for a while. It's likely the hackers will have put their ill gotten gains up on it for now, and I'd rather not purchase stolen goods.
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2012-05-28, 00:21 | Link #2083 | |
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Florida
Age: 37
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I've seen hundreds if not thousands of posts saying they've been compromised from posts made today alone. And he's trying to claim the large majority of compromises are from them buying gold from sketchy places? I don't buy that for a minute. Especially considering I'm not part of that large majority, and unless the other people I've seen posting are all liars, then neither are they. Nope, D3 passwords are not case sensitive.
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2012-05-28, 00:31 | Link #2084 |
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Tennessee
Age: 36
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lol, I've heard of blaming the victim but this is taking things to a whole new level. "It's always the victim's fault, if you claim that you're innocent in the matter you're lying!" Why, exactly, are you so determined to white knight Blizzard and paint them as blameless, and so reluctant to believe anyone who says that they were hacked through no real fault of their own? It seems as though you won't believe that anyone had their account compromised without doing anything moronic and irresponsible unless they write a 5,000 word essay describing in detail the precautions they took to protect their account.
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2012-05-28, 00:32 | Link #2085 |
A Proud Lolicon
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: In front of my computer
Age: 37
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Then what the heck have I been typing in my password box all the time...?
In any case, I'll believe anything that I can see rather than anything people are telling each other on the internet, and so far none of my friends have problem regarding security.
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2012-05-28, 00:35 | Link #2086 |
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I don't have Diablo 3 myself, but out of the 6 people I know who have, and talked to, three have had their accounts compromised. Two work in high level IT and I'd trust to keep their computers very secure. While it is a very small sample size, even a 10% rate of "my account's been hacked!" sounds like it should be outside the realm of probability.
Also regarding the authenticator issue - I've been told that the smartphone-based authenticators don't work against this "Diablo 3 hacking" issue. It's only the physical kinds you can buy that work. About rollbacks as well - my friend has reported that a user is only allowed two rollbacks in an account's lifetime. Basically, if it happened to you once, pray it doesn't happen twice again. EDIT: Duo - Apparently passwords are valid whether you use capitals or not. Perhaps battle.net has a cipher which converts all characters to either upper or lower case. |
2012-05-28, 00:35 | Link #2087 |
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Tennessee
Age: 36
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I dunno, unless you're the most popular guy on the planet I would imagine that your friends make up a pretty small sample of Diablo III's 1,000,000+ userbase. I'm sure the people that have been hacked are a minority of all the Diablo III players around, but there's still a higher number of compromised accounts than there should be.
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2012-05-28, 00:38 | Link #2088 | |
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EDIT: Accusing someone of "Its your fault, your computer security sucks!" is an accusation which cannot be disproven, so its a handy one to sling around. |
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2012-05-28, 01:16 | Link #2091 | ||
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Join Date: Jun 2004
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In fact, it's more important to target non-buyers because these are usually the works of 3rd party gold seller. Doesn't make any business sense to target your own customers. And it's the internet, who knows who is lying and who is telling the truth? But internet crime/scam can be more devious and malicious than we attribute it for. Quote:
We can keep our risk low but the chance is always there. Security flaws in external program to cleverly nested code in ads. While we know Blizzard hacking is popular, but i m certain that there's way more malware written to target Asian MMORPG which typically is cashshop driven and carry far more monetary value than your Diablo 3 account ever will.
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2012-05-28, 01:43 | Link #2092 |
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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. |
2012-05-28, 01:54 | Link #2093 | |
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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.
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2012-05-28, 02:15 | Link #2094 | |
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I'm this close to soloing Belial (already killed him with friends) I keep dying in the third phase which is stupid because the third phase is the easiest (the only tactic is don't stand in the green stuff)
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2012-05-28, 02:21 | Link #2095 | |
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Still, I'm unconvinced that stripping a video game account of items is the most valuable thing a malevolent party would do to a person's computer with the kind of access which was had. I just find it strange how Diablo 3 was the only game worth having people's accounts compromised lately, especially since the auction house doesn't accept real currency yet (from what I hear). Too many questions for me. For example, be playing WoW for years without incident and suddenly when Diablo 3 comes out, your Diablo 3 account becomes compromised. If it were an account hack, the coincidence of these two events (diablo 3 release and account compromise) as well as this recent burst of "Diablo 3 account hacking" cases seems like it fits too nicely to be a simple "your password sucks/ your computer got hacked," case. |
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2012-05-28, 03:46 | Link #2096 | |
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Somewhere, between the sacred silence and sleep
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Easy to halt packs of knockback elites by kiting them to a narrow chokepoint. In act 2, there's much less areas like that, so I'll be switching of course. Shield is great for upping Armor as well as giving block %, but I don't have a high enough DPS 1-hander to compensate. Once I get one of those 800+ DPS weapon, I may switch to using a shield. Or, I could compensate by stacking more armor and resist. I'm aiming for 800 resist and 8000 armor or so for Act 2. Act 3 is... another story. Most monks are struggling in Act 3, and I don't plan to advance in it anytime soon. Once I beat Act 2, I'll probably set my monk aside for a while.
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2012-05-28, 05:05 | Link #2097 | |
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Age: 36
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The point is, I did nothing that would make this hacking "my fault" yet I still got hacked. And the funny thing? I never got hacked on anything other than my blizzard account. Even my bank and paypal accounts were safe. Only my blizzard account has been hacked. Let me put that in perspective: A hacker managed to get into my game account, but left my banking accounts alone. This leaves us two options: 1: If my computer was what was compromised, apparently my bank accounts have appropriate security measures in place to fend of the kind of attacks made. Which means blizzard's security is worse. 2: The account was compromised on blizzard's side, explaining why my bank accounts were untouched. Either way, blizzard's security is flawed. |
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2012-05-28, 05:30 | Link #2098 |
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Australia
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How's about if the compromise happens during the distribution phase? During some steps of that Diablo 3 grand "15th May launch"? Is it possible, because i heard the key was distributed separately from the physical game copy?
If that the case, then it explains why some knew no one getting accounts compromised, while others hit 50% rate (as all your friends tend to go for the same distributor)
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2012-05-28, 06:37 | Link #2100 |
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Join Date: Nov 2003
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Act 3 Inferno is so very annoying... Very close to beating it, but some of these mobs with the base teleport and massive attack power is extremely annoying. Farming Siegebreaker for now, got some amazing 160Dex/80Vit/60Res/Mov Speed boots. Hoping that'll fetch a good penny.
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