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Blizzard's Battle.net Hacked - Recommends All Users Change Passwords
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2012-08-09 23:03
Blizzard Entertainment, the company behind Warcraft, Starcraft and Diablo, today informed customers that their internal security network had been breached.
The company doesn't believe that financial information has been compromised but other data including email addresses for all non-China players and scrambled passwords were taken. The company believes it will be extraordinarily difficult for hackers to break into actual accounts, but is recommending that all users change their passwords.
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Valve to Steam users: No class-action suits
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2012-08-01 02:49
Valve has issued an update to its Steam Subscriber Agreement that effectively prevents all Steam users from joining in class action lawsuits against the company. Valve's new SSA requires that "you [the user] and Valve agree to resolve all disputes and claims... in individual binding arbitration," mimicking similar language added by EA to its Origin service agreement and Microsoft with Windows 8.
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Ubisoft moves to patch Uplay security vulnerability
Submitted by l33tdawg on Tue, 2012-07-31 00:21
Game developer Ubisoft is advising customers to update their systems following the discovery of a high-profile security vulnerability in the company's Uplay games tool.
Researcher Tavis Ormandy first spotted the flaw, which could potentially allow a third-party to exploit the uPlay service to run arbitrary and potentially malicious applications.
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Diablo 3 Barbarian God-Mode Exploit Found
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2012-07-25 00:47
A Diablo 3 God mode exploit for the Barbarian class has been discovered. The bug's been found only a day after users found and abused a similar bug that made Wizards completely invulnerable. The Wizard God-mode exploit took Blizzard almost an entire day to fix, and players were even live streaming their experiences of taking out some of the hardest content the game had to offer without even breaking a sweat, or the bank, for once.
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Over 8 million passwords and email addresses leaked from Gamigo
Submitted by l33tdawg on Tue, 2012-07-24 01:11
Hackers have posted more than 8 million passwords and email addresses obtained from Gamigo, a free gaming site based out of Germany.
Gamigo was initially hacked in March. At the time, the site required all registered users to create new passwords. Hackers posted the personal information earlier this month on a password-cracking forum called Insider Pro, according to Forbes.
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