Aller US-Spieler von Blizzard-Games wie World of Warcraft, Warcraft, Starcraft oder auch Diablo wurden kürzlich per Mail über einen Hacking-Angriff auf das Portal der Spieleschmiede informiert. Die Hacker konnten zwar nicht an die Bank- und Kontodaten, Kreditkartendaten oder Namen der Nutzer gelangen, gelangen aber an die e-Mail-Adressen und die verschlüsselten Passwörter. Bei Spielern, die sich in der Vergangenheit auf nordamerikanische Server geloggt haben, sei ein Zugriff auf die Antworten auf die persönliche Sicherheitsfrage und Infos erfolgt.
Laut Blizzard wird es den Hackern jedoch nicht gelingen können, mit Hilfe der verschlüsselten Passwörtern und der Sicherheitsfragen in die Accounts zu dringen. Dennoch werden alle US-Nutzer gebeten, ihr Passwort zu ändern. Nur so ist ein 100%iger Schutz gewährleistet.
Wer 100%ig sicher gehen will, dass sich keiner auf seinen Account einloggen kann, kann auch Blizzards Battle.net Mobile Authenticator nutzen. Diese iOS App generiert dynamisch jede Minute einen euen, sechsstelligen Code. Ohne diesen Code kann man sich nicht in den Battle.net Account einloggen.
Die vollständige Presseinformation und Warnung an alle Blizzard-Kunden:
Players and Friends,
Even when you are in the business of fun, not every week ends up being fun. This week, our security team found an unauthorized and illegal access into our internal network here at Blizzard. We quickly took steps to close off this access and began working with law enforcement and security experts to investigate what happened.
At this time, we’ve found no evidence that financial information such as credit cards, billing addresses, or real names were compromised. Our investigation is ongoing, but so far nothing suggests that these pieces of information have been accessed.
Some data was illegally accessed, including a list of email addresses for global Battle.net users, outside of China. For players on North American servers (which generally includes players from North America, Latin America, Australia, New Zealand, and Southeast Asia) the answer to the personal security question, and information relating to Mobile and Dial-In Authenticators were also accessed. Based on what we currently know, this information alone is NOT enough for anyone to gain access to Battle.net accounts.
We also know that cryptographically scrambled versions of Battle.net passwords (not actual passwords) for players on North American servers were taken. We use Secure Remote Password protocol (SRP) to protect these passwords, which is designed to make it extremely difficult to extract the actual password, and also means that each password would have to be deciphered individually. As a precaution, however, we recommend that players on North American servers change their password. Please click this link to change your password. Moreover, if you have used the same or similar passwords for other purposes, you may want to consider changing those passwords as well.
In the coming days, we’ll be prompting players on North American servers to change their secret questions and answers through an automated process. Additionally, we’ll prompt mobile authenticator users to update their authenticator software. As a reminder, phishing emails will ask you for password or login information. Blizzard Entertainment emails will never ask for your password. We deeply regret the inconvenience to all of you and understand you may have questions. Please find additional information here.
We take the security of your personal information very seriously, and we are truly sorry that this has happened.
Sincerely,
Mike Morhaime
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