Over the past couple of days, players have expressed concerns over the possibility of Battle.net® account compromises. First and foremost, we want to make it clear that the Battle.net and Diablo III servers have not been compromised. In addition, the number of Diablo III players who’ve contacted customer service to report a potential compromise of their personal account has been extremely small. In all of the individual Diablo III-related compromise cases we’ve investigated, none have occurred after a physical Battle.net Authenticator or Battle.net Mobile Authenticator app was attached to the player’s account, and we have yet to find any situation where a Diablo III player’s account was accessed outside of “traditional” compromise methods (i.e. someone logging using an account’s login email and password).

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5568799631?page=2#32

Here’s some more information for you:
(http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5568799631?page=2#32)

“Over the past couple of days, players have expressed concerns over the possibility of Battle.net® account compromises. First and foremost, we want to make it clear that the Battle.net and Diablo III servers have not been compromised. In addition, the number of Diablo III players who’ve contacted customer service to report a potential compromise of their personal account has been extremely small. In all of the individual Diablo III-related compromise cases we’ve investigated, none have occurred after a physical Battle.net Authenticator or Battle.net Mobile Authenticator app was attached to the player’s account, and we have yet to find any situation where a Diablo III player’s account was accessed outside of “traditional” compromise methods (i.e. someone logging using an account’s login email and password).”

There were a bunch of reports by people who said they were hacked inspite of having an authenticator so I wrote that.”

Sounds like hearsay to me- Blizzard’s official stance is that no accounts with an authenticator attached have been compromised. Perhaps you should mention Blizzard’s stance on the issue in your article in order to clear up the spread of potential misinformation. I was lead to this article by someone who walked away with the idea that Blizzard had admitted accounts were being hacked despite the use of an authenticator, and that much just isn’t true.

Hey Jim,

There were a bunch of reports by people who said they were hacked inspite of having an authenticator so I wrote that.

“While the authenticator isn’t a 100% guarantee of account security, we have yet to investigate a compromise report in which an authenticator was attached beforehand.”
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5149619846?page=29#571

http://www.cheatanarchy.com/diablo-3-maphack-download

Selling 6.3 Million copies in one week and having stable servers up after the second day does not scream “epic fail” to me. Maybe you should have used a more secure password and let’s be honest, 75K in gold and a weeks worth of newbie gear is not very much. Eat cheese with your whine if your account had been hacked after a year of playing the game.

Pretty messed up, this launch has been an epic fail