thx for nothing blizz watch your gold

Get an authenticator.  Its that simple.  It protects your entire battle.net account.  I've had one for years.  These security issues have been happening for years, they aren't new and they affect any game where real life money can be made.  I was hacked several times in Diablo 2 back in the day, and technology has only gotten better for hackers.  If you read the whole article, Blizzard has reported that they haven't found a single case where someone was hacked other than someone logging in with their username and password.  People are getting phished and then blame blizzard.  They did it in WoW too until progression raiding guilds started demanding members have an authenticator to qualify for core raid slots, now everyone has them.

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EXACTLY! This issue is server side, it's just frustrating that Blizzard doesnt want to help us and just insists that it's our fault the accounts got hacked. I use strong passwords too and so far Diablo 3 is the only game i've ever had my account hacked.

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The issue is not serverside.  Blizzard has officially stated numerous times they have not found a single case of an account being hacked by any method other than username/password, nor have they found any method of an account being hacked with an authenticator prior to the original hack.  It doesn't matter how strong your passwords are if you get phished or have keylogging software on your computer.  You can keep saying Blizzard is a liar, but you have absolutely no basis to be making that claim.

Here is an article regarding hacking and how hackers can NOT make more money as programmers for very compelling reasons.

if blizzard knows there are hack problems the authenticater should be free nuff said.

Choose a better password for the email you use your battle.net account for and the battle.net account itself. I know that sounds stupid but a lot of people tend to use passwords like 1234 + a capital letter or something like "cat" or "dog" + 1234. Seriously, probably one of the major problems on any account managing for any site. But I do agree blizzard is doing very poorly with hacking. I wish they had that safeguard thing where if you login to another computer you have to verify with a code that its you with your email.

[QUOTE="shadowchronicle"] Yeah I haven't used the authenticator but it seems pretty useless.[/QUOTE] Its not. Its the best account security you can get. Having an awesome password is great for brute force hackers, but this is the vast minority of hackers. Most people get hacked by phishers and keyloggers. Strong passwords don't protect against these. Authenticators do. You can say "well just don't go to sites", the thing is most people with an authenticator play Blizzard games for years. I've had my authenticator for 3 years. Perfect diligence in a digital world forever and ever just isn't something that's going to happen for most people. That's where the authenticator comes in.