Diablo III Accounts Under Attack

Numerous sites, including Eurogamer and Examiner, are reporting that hackers have managed to get into Diablo III accounts only days after the game’s release. While it’s not clear at this time if this represents a serious vulnerability in Blizzard’s own servers, or is the result of social engineering and other tricks, it’s another unfortunate side-effect of the game’s online-only play that all players have to put up with.

We recommend that everyone enjoying Diablo III change their Battle.net passwords, just in case. Blizzard have yet to comment on the matter, but for now, here’s a snippet from Eurogamer’s report:

One theory suggested by players on the Battle.net forum revolves around hijacking session identifiers, which would allow hackers to take over accounts without alerting Blizzard’s authentication server. Again, this remains unconfirmed. Whatever the cause, Blizzard will be keen to address the situation quickly, especially in light of the upcoming release of the real money auction house and the growing complaints from players. Blizzard said last week it was set for release at the end of the month.