A report on Eurogamer relates one incident when staffer Chris Donlan’s account for playing the hit action RPG was accessed by someone who claimed to have bought it. On the official Diablo III forums, other users are also reporting instances of illicit access and gold theft . Apparently, the hackers are finding a way around the added security provided by Blizzard’s Mobile Authenticator, as well, according to forum posts.
First, the long-awaited hack-and-slash suffers a terribly crippled launch week that leaves thousands of players unable to play the game they waited 12 years for. Then they announce that the game’s ballyhooed real-money auction houses have been indefinitely delayed. If the hacking of user accounts becomes widespread, it’ll be the ugliest setback yet for a game whose always-online connection was supposed to protect players from the worst realities of PC gaming.
Kotaku has reached out to Blizzard for comment and will update this story as needed.
If you’ve run into this kind of thing — or haven’t — chime in in the comments.
Diablo 3 accounts hacked, gold and items stolen [Eurogamer]
Good to see this problem is gaining a big voice blizzard need to see that its too big a problem to just blame the people constantly and something is wrong with their security. I am one of the poor bastards who got hacked and had blizzard just say i must have gone to a dodgy site prior to installation even though due to my Vista being unable to install Diablo 3 i formatted and went back to a new clean computer on XP just before install, my computer had its regular scan in the middle of the week and computer was clean and yet i still managed to have my account hacked and being told it was my fault.
Blizzard royally screwed up on this one. I seem to have been slightly luckier then others as i only lost 1 act and 2 lvls but in the 50's thats a good few hrs where as i hear others have lost a couple of days of effort. But to be told if i get hacked 1 or 2 more times i will be permernantly banned because of their poor security is just ridiuclous..
/endrant
A site you might of registered on previously may of been hacked, there are tonnes of ways hackers can get access to accounts. Blizzard have advised that no one with an activator has been hacked in Diablo 3 yet and there is no suspiciousactivity to indicate some kind of exploit. Diablo 3's auction house makes it a prime target, however it's your own fault that you were hacked. Change your password to something not used on other sites (password generator maybe?) and attach an activator to your account. You also don't get banned from 1-2 hacking attempts, you will then need an authenticator to use their auction house again it's suffering to people being hacked because of their own fault, it would be different if there was a security exploit which there isn't. Check the forum, one of the Blizzard members has also called out people who said they had authenticator but lied, 100% users fault.
Ok so this means that those that play the single player aspect of it are now susceptible to hackers....whereas if they did not have to have a constant net connection, they would not be susceptible to it.
Diablo was always a single player game with a fantastic multiplayer component (D2 I mean). Why fix something if it was not broken in the first place. I just do not understand how people are still defending this very bad game. I just do not see how.
I would hate to see anyone at Blizz join the unemployment line. So I hope they fix the bugs and do something about the game soon. But really, poor form is still poor form at the end of the day.
/Golfclap
It's not a bad game, it's just wrapped in a turd at the moment, hopefully they will clean the turd of in the future and we can all be happy.
People also need to take notice that for whatever reason Blizzard has NOT enabled case sensitive passwords. So if your password was something not to hard but with capitals to make it difficult then perhaps now is a good time to change them to something totally random and long. Like caketunawheeldog ;)
I'm not going to sound off with a 'I'll never again but a game with an online requirement' but this game has shifted my attitude from ambivalent to wary. It's hard not to feel hard done by with this game. It is an excellent game but they have again given legitimate users a kick in the teeth in the name of 'fighting the pirates'. I'm genuinely wearied by the ongoing rhetoric about pirates and piracy when it is subsequently used to make life more difficult for consumers. I think I'll go play Portal 2 - Long live Valve
Frankly, the news on Diablo III over the past near-week has served as an excellent warning not only to potential players, but also to other companies.
Having said that, NO company can protect against user stupidity - like giving account details to non-Blizzard websites, for instance.
I have not been able to have a proper play session, and news like this doesn't inspire me - nor does the lack of skills available in-game.
It's very pretty though, isn't it? :)
Just got hacked as well, logged off at 12pm after doing some whimsy runs, log back on at 1pm, snap.. Everythings gone.
Sux2bme cant do shit about it..... the quiet victim in the corner.
Just happened to me.
Blizzard have said no breach was made and all the hacking was due to client error. They also advised that none of the hacked members had an authenticator. If you've been hacked it's your own fault. However if you have get in contact with Blizzard to roll back your character.
I'll never buy another Blizzard game. I don't need to play this outdated junk, Borderlands 2 will be out soon enough.
I had a lot of gold and some very nice equipment. I got an email from Blizzard this morning indicating my account was locked due to suspicious activity. I didn't trust the email at first so to double check I tried logging into my Battle.net account and sure enough my password didn't work so I followed the instructions in the email to reset my password and am able to log in now only to find all my gold and all my equipment was gone with the exception of a dexterity ring. The wait time to talk to Blizzard support is over an hour. I'm hoping they'll be able to roll back to get all my missing stuff.