Unauthorized World of Warcraft log-in attempts rise; Blizzard warns users
A rash of unauthorized login attempts to numerous World of Warcraft user accounts through the website and mobile Armory app has forced Blizzard to the auction house through the app and warn players to change their logins.
A rash of unauthorized login attempts to numerous World of Warcraft user accounts through the website and mobile Armory app has forced Blizzard to disable access to the auction house through the app and warn players to change their logins.
"We're in the process of notifying any account holders who were not using an authenticator and whose account showed signs of unauthorized access (e.g., logging in from an unusual IP address)," Blizzard said on its official blog. "If you are among this group, you will receive an email describing how to reset your account."
In the meantime, Blizzard has temporarily disabled access to the auction house through the mobile app, and will be restoring gold and items to anyone affected by the breach.
The series lost about 1.3 million subscribers so far in the first quarter of this year from the 9.6 million announced after the launch of Mists of Pandaria expansion last year. Blizzard is planning to push out more frequent updates to keep players interested in the game.
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replyJohn Keefer posted a new article, Blizzard disables World of Warcraft mobile auction house use.
A rash of unauthorized login attempts to numerous World of Warcraft user accounts through the website and mobile Armory app has forced Blizzard to the auction house through the app and warn players to change their logins.-
That's actually quite interesting. Has this been going on longer and has Blizzard cared about this only now, due to falling subscriber numbers?
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The amount of gold spam that goes on across B.Net is ridiculous. You log in to SC2 and you see 30 friend invites with gold spam messages for Diablo 3 or World of Warcraft. I think these problems have been going on for a very long time and I think for the most part they quietly deal with them.
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Yeah, its terrible in diablo 3. Back when I played world of warcraft, during wrath of the lich king, gold spam in wasnt nearly as bad back then.
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I wonder if some other company's data got leaked and the cracked table is being used to try to get access to Blizzard accounts.
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Funny, unauthorized logins for Guild Wars 2 are referred to as hacks:
"It may be time to gird your loins and beef up your passwords again, as yet another online game's security has been compromised."
http://www.shacknews.com/article/75656/guild-wars-2-hack-impacts-11000-accounts
And yet when it's WoW:
"A rash of unauthorized login attempts"-
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"Hackers have big lists of email addresses and passwords that they've harvested from malware and from security vulnerabilities in other games and web sites, and they're systematically testing Guild Wars 2 looking for matching accounts."
hardly qualifies as a "Guild Wars 2 hack" and
"yet another online game's security has been compromised."
It's just shitty sensationalist reporting.
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And have you ever noticed how black olives are sold in cans, meanwhile green olives are sold in jars
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