I was reading up about the hacking on European battlenet forums. In one post there are two reports from people who bought brand new computers days before the release of D3. If it isn't an issue on blizzards side than how do you explain this? The computers came from the factory with keyloggers allready on them?
"My roommate and one of my friends got hacked too, hacker even killed my roommates hardcore champpion. Both of them lost all items and money, blizard rolled back their accounts and both lost loads of items and lots of levels. Blizard also replyed that the account can only be rolled back twice. My rommates computer was just bought for diablo, he had almost no other programs, had not visited any suspicious sites and we ran a virus scan, but no keylogger or trojans were found."
It is kinda funny they killed off his hardcore character xD.
"Having spent a lot of money on blizzard products, and 100% knowing the hacking was nothing to do with me since my computer is literally 2 days old i feel like the least I'm owed and everyone else is owed is an explanation."
Here is a game reporter claiming she was hacked even with an authenticator, I'm not sure why she refers to herself in 3rd person. Maybe random people stating it got passed their authenticator isn't credible enough for some but here is someone with a bit more credibility stating it.
"This reporter, after having her own account with authenticator hacked, firmly believes this is a serious security breach on Blizzard’s side, though they either do not want to admit it, or are still unaware of the problem. Many who have had their account on Diablo 3 hacked were logged in at the time of the hack and support staff tells them there was no evidence of their account being hacked. That indicates there is an exploit in the system being taken advantage of."
People are getting their hackers(or the character's they traded the gold too) randomly added to their friends/recently played list. There are many people getting hacked but only a handful of these random friends, meaning it is either a few people or small group of people doing the hacks. This isn't anything surprising, but if it were keyloggers wouldn't this imply that all these people getting hacked visited the same site? If this is the case than pinpointing said sites should be easy considering how many people are complaining about being hacked.
Like others have said, the massive influx of people getting hacked leads me to the obvious conclusion that the problem is server side. Sure there are probably people with keyloggers too, like the user that had the password changed but this backdoor entry into accounts makes much more sense, especially with blizzard telling a lot of people they have no log of their accounts being comprimised. I.E.- The session ID didn't change and the hackers skipped the authentication process. This is also why people with authenticators are getting hacked.
Edit- Looks like someone all ready posted this info but I will keep it on
Just read this on official forums. A blue replied but didn't confirm nor deny it. Seems like the issue is on Blizzards end after all.
"an exploit was discovered by duplicating a session ID basically, if you join a public game with people, they can view your session ID and spoof it to login as you without need for a password or email or anyting if you play with people, try not to play in public games bro, only with people you know"
If this is the case we should expect to see servers going down shortly I would think.
This is the thread its in, http://us.battle.net...opic/5149539239 not much else to read though. I just logged in to delete randoms off my friends list, not sure if it would help or not but I just want to be safe as possible lol. I kept getting errors trying to remove people from friends and getting disconnected...
It doesn't explain every hacking incident, like one of the users in here that had their password changed which requires their email be hacked too.
I will almost guarantee these issues are client side and not server side. I agree with Doez even though I do feel sorry for the people who get hacked. It is their own fault the majority of the time. Good luck to everyone having these Issues, but from what the OP said you will likely need to purchase an authenticator if you want your account restored.
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"My roommate and one of my friends got hacked too, hacker even killed my roommates hardcore champpion. Both of them lost all items and money, blizard rolled back their accounts and both lost loads of items and lots of levels. Blizard also replyed that the account can only be rolled back twice. My rommates computer was just bought for diablo, he had almost no other programs, had not visited any suspicious sites and we ran a virus scan, but no keylogger or trojans were found."
It is kinda funny they killed off his hardcore character xD.
"Having spent a lot of money on blizzard products, and 100% knowing the hacking was nothing to do with me since my computer is literally 2 days old i feel like the least I'm owed and everyone else is owed is an explanation."
Here is a game reporter claiming she was hacked even with an authenticator, I'm not sure why she refers to herself in 3rd person. Maybe random people stating it got passed their authenticator isn't credible enough for some but here is someone with a bit more credibility stating it.
"This reporter, after having her own account with authenticator hacked, firmly believes this is a serious security breach on Blizzard’s side, though they either do not want to admit it, or are still unaware of the problem. Many who have had their account on Diablo 3 hacked were logged in at the time of the hack and support staff tells them there was no evidence of their account being hacked. That indicates there is an exploit in the system being taken advantage of."
Like others have said, the massive influx of people getting hacked leads me to the obvious conclusion that the problem is server side. Sure there are probably people with keyloggers too, like the user that had the password changed but this backdoor entry into accounts makes much more sense, especially with blizzard telling a lot of people they have no log of their accounts being comprimised. I.E.- The session ID didn't change and the hackers skipped the authentication process. This is also why people with authenticators are getting hacked.
Just read this on official forums. A blue replied but didn't confirm nor deny it. Seems like the issue is on Blizzards end after all.
"an exploit was discovered by duplicating a session ID basically, if you join a public game with people, they can view your session ID and spoof it to login as you without need for a password or email or anyting if you play with people, try not to play in public games bro, only with people you know"
If this is the case we should expect to see servers going down shortly I would think.
This is the thread its in, http://us.battle.net...opic/5149539239 not much else to read though. I just logged in to delete randoms off my friends list, not sure if it would help or not but I just want to be safe as possible lol. I kept getting errors trying to remove people from friends and getting disconnected...
It doesn't explain every hacking incident, like one of the users in here that had their password changed which requires their email be hacked too.