"Bashiok has just posted confirming that they have yet to see any accounts comprised other than normal means. updating that section to match his new post"
Blizzard has been telling people that their accounts have not been compromised despite their gold and gear disappearing and random new people added to their friends list. They are still offering these people rollbacks to my knowledge.
Blizzard isn't lying when they say no accounts have been compromised other than normal means because most of the "hacked" accounts weren't compromised just accessed through an exploit. In other words the hackers/exploiters don't have any information about the account and can't access it without you all ready being in game and through the authentication process. After reading the battlenet forums off and on over the last 6 hours or so it appears that the majority of the people making these claims have had their characters cleaned but still have access to their accounts. Relatively, there are very few people who are claiming that their account and/or email passwords have been changed, which is common practice when phising or keyloggers are in use.
Legally Blizzard is only obligated to announce their security measures have been breached if personal information was gained by the parties that broke through their system. Why would Blizzard announce to the world that they have a faulty security setup if they don't need to? Considering the RMAH that is set to release in a week the answer should be fairly obvious -- They wouldn't announce it. I probably wouldn't make a public statement about it either if I was in their shoes.
Of course this could possibly be wrong, but I am not making any of this up as it has all been gathered first hand from the battlenet forums. Take a look at the blue topics tracker in the top left corner or at the battlenet forums and you will see that this is a very hot topic. I have never seen this big of an increase in "hacked" accounts with any releases of other Blizzard games and they all use the same authentication setup. The shear number of people getting simultaneously hacked suggests that the problem isn't everyone visiting the same lame phising site.
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What ever story line they go with, they almost certainly will do something with unleashing the Evils from the black soul stone. At one point in Act 2 you can read some of Cain's journals and he talks about the Prime and Lesser Evils. When he mentions Mephisto he says something along the lines of " If he is brought back into this world destruction will await us", sounded an awful lot like foreshadowing to me.
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Damn why didn't I think of that! Hopefully I get in the EU servers before this entire board reads this and crashes those servers too lol.
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Ok, for the next online game you buy you should expect similar issues to occur like many of us that aren't over reacting to this. The issue is the servers not the product you bought, unless you somehow paid for the servers?
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Blizzard should say "not soon enough "
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I havn't tried it yet but that appears to be the case. When you start a specific quest it will only give you the WP's that you had/should have when that quest is started. In the beta if you farmed the SkellieKing it wouldn't give you the WP right outside his room because you didn't have that WP when you started the SK quest. Hope that makes sense.
One thing I'm not sure of because I havn't tried farming yet, is if the bosses are still alive when you start a new room but are on a further quest than the boss. For example, in D2 all the bosses were alive in a new game despite what quest you are on. The way the quest system is structured would suggest otherwise, but if it is like D2 it just means the farming would be that much quicker. Can anyone confirm/comment on this?
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If you know how to make servers allow millions of people connecting at the same time you should say something. Currently there is no solution for this in existence.
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Just hilight the password with your mouse and make some copy pasta.