Over 5,000 StarCraft 2 Players Banned for Hacking

October 1, 2010 3:00 PM

[Update 10/4] Blizzard has told Shacknews that these bans were handed out at the "game account level," though there have been account suspensions at the Battle.net level.

[Original Story] After warning players that bans would be forthcoming a few weeks ago, Blizzard has banned over 5,000 StarCraft II players "for cheating and/or using hack programs while playing."

It is unclear if these bans simply disable the StarCraft II license attached to a Battle.net account or if the entire Battle.net account is disabled. If it is the whole Battle.net account, it would mean that a banned player would lose access to World of Warcraft and potentially digital copies of older Blizzard games.

Shacknews has reached out to Blizzard for clarification on how these bans function.

Brian Leahy

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