Diablo 3 Forum Filling with Hacking Complaints; Stolen Items
There's supposedly an exploit that will hijack Diablo 3 accounts, allowing hackers to steal gold and goods.
Last week Blizzard released the highly-anticipated, long-awaited action-RPG game Diablo 3 for the PC. The launch was littered with problems ranging from connection issues to a bug that kicked users out of the game for donning a shield. Blizzard quickly offered an apology and thanks to its customers for their patience and tolerance, closing a rough week.
However the second week of Diablo 3's market presence has seemingly started off with a similar controversial bang. Numerous threads are now filling the Diablo 3 forums reporting that accounts have been hacked. Thieves are reportedly taking character items and liquidating gold, leading to a possible massacre once the real-world auction house opens its doors next week.
"I had my Diablo 3 account hacked today," states one player in this thread. "All my items gone and gold liquidated. Blizzard rolled it back to where I was a day and a half before. Meaning I lost around 20 hours of game time play. My password is a random combination of capitalized and uncapitalized letters, numbers, and special characters. My security question answer is also unknowable by anyone but me."
In this thread, a player with a hacked account was flamed for not using an authenticator to secure his virtual goods. However in this thread, a player claims he used an authenticator and still saw his account drained of gold and goods. In the same thread, another player even figured out who actually hacked into his account.
"The hacker's is luckllezz (George Melchers) the guy added me as a friend before I logged back in," writes iMax. "I joined his game and watched as they cleaned out 30+ players, one after another. I reported all this to Blizzard with little to no response, now I have a level 57 worthless and not able to progress. Couple this with the server issues that happened earlier, my Diablo 3 experience is going peachy!"
Another thread on the Diablo 3 forums not only reveals that a hacker somehow appeared on a player's friend list, but the player took screenshots of an actual hacking of a Level 52 Witch Doctor in progress. "I think people were hacked a while ago and hackers were just waiting for Diablo's release before they set 'Order 66' into motion," another player muses, referring to Star Wars Episode III.
Finally, this thread suggests that a Diablo 3 exploit allows session hijacking. "You will lose connection to the game," reports Frobozz as he describes what will happen when the account is hijacked. "This can result in just the 'Lost connection to server' error message or no message at all."
"A good sign that the connection loss is a hijack attempt and not just a server error is if you are also having trouble surfing the web (i.e. slow connections, or can't load pages)," he continues. "People are reporting that their IP is getting DDOSed to prevent them from relogging into Diablo 3 and thus getting a new session and stopping the attack."
So far Blizzard hasn't issued a statement through the PR channels or via the forums, so stay tuned.
57 levels in a week???? The hacker did you a favor man, now i sugest a game called "Outside" - awesome MMORPG with no sever downtimes and completely FREE*
*fees may apply
Your attempt at mocking others like a high school, teenage, punk blatantly reveals your own insecurity. Most will come to the conclusion that you are embarrassed yourself about that which you're mocking of others to compensate.
*Leech. And no, I don't see why people should "pay" for this crappy experience, no matter how much fun the game is. I checked: the game costs $70 in my area, while it costs $60 everywhere else. Why is that? Normally all the games are much cheaper here (got ME3 N7 Digital Deluxe Edition for $40 while it's $70 or so in US), and combined with all the issues, this is a no-deal for me. I will be sure to download the cracked version if it ever comes out, though, and see what's the hype about. And then if they drop the price to a decent point in my area and fix all the BS, I might even buy it.
I would say it is true that some kind of hack is going on. I dont know how they do it but it does not involve a trojan from a website or keylogger. It is done exclusively from using your battlenet ID
That would be boogie2988, link to original video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsqUZkmO-zk
So... Game = Bad, therefore pirate? Guy's right, you're an absolute leech. If you think the pricing is unfair, order from Amazon or something. If you think that the fact that you don't like the game's experience entitles you to a free copy, then you are completely delusional. If you don't want to buy the game, then don't buy it AND don't play it. If you want to play it, buy it.
Yeah i know, ever since EA released BF3 for 1500 bucks, PC game prices have shot through the roof...
Ok so this game is turning into or is a Trojan horse..... Class action lawsuit of extreme breach of privacy heading your way blizzard!!!
Either someone is investing a lot of money into doing widespread MitM attacks or someone found a way to bypass the authentication system.
I will download the cracked version because I do not have a constant internet connection.
Also, Activision-Blizzard Inc. is greedy. That is all.
Perhaps you should put things into perspective... Duke3D, Doom etc were coded by 3-4 guys, done over a few months and fit on a floppy or two. Todays games employs thousands of people, costs in the millions to develop and take years to put into shape. Not to mention the far greater tech employed into the games. Also, those games you mentioned had their amount of patches and serious bugs too, but it's a lot easier to debug some 20-30MB of code than several gigabytes of code. I've worked with these things, debugging Doom could be done in a weekend over a few cups of coffee, would you be able to do the same with Diablo 3? Or any modern game for that matter?
Either way, this Diablo 3 flaw is serious and it will only escalate as long as there is real money in it, which is why I am opposed to the real money AH. If it doesn't attract a bunch of idiot chinese gold farmers it will attract any a-hole to destroy the game for their own personal greed.
Non_turbo: Seriously, review your text or get a dictionary. I also didn't understand half of it.