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Blizzard Says Battle.Net Has Been Hacked

An anonymous reader writes "Blizzard announced today that its Battle.net service was compromised. The company is urging users to change their login information immediately. Blizzard is stressing that payment information was not compromised. 'The unauthorized access included email addresses associated with Battle.net accounts in all regions, outside of China. Additional information from accounts associated with the North American servers (which generally includes players from North America, Latin America, Australia, New Zealand, and Southeast Asia) was also accessed, including cryptographically scrambled versions of passwords (not actual passwords), the answer to a personal security question, and information relating to Mobile and Dial-In Authenticators. It's important to note that at this time, Blizzard does not believe this information alone is enough to gain access to Battle.net accounts.'"

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  1. Proof Linux is more insecure than Windows by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    As far as the YEARS of /. propoganda of "Linux = Secure, Windows !=Secure"? I can only put out Linux's fails from 2011-2012 also:

    2012:

    Medicaid hack update: 500,000 records and 280,000 SSNs stolen:

    http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/medicaid-hack-update-500000-records-and-280000-ssns-stolen/11444

    So, what's dts.utah.gov running everyone?

    LINUX (and yes, it got HACKED) -> http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=dts.utah.gov

    What's health.utah.gov running too??

    YOU GUESSED IT: LINUX AGAIN -> http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=health.utah.gov

    * Ah, yes - see the YEARS OF /. "BS" FUD is CRUMBLING AROUND THE PENGUINS EARS HERE & 2012's starting out just like 2011 did below!

    ===

    2011:

    KERNEL.ORG COMPROMISED - The Cracking of Kernel.org: (that's VERY bad - do you trust it now?)

    http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/08/31/2321232/Kernelorg-Compromised

    ---

    Linux.com pwned in fresh round of cyber break-ins:

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/12/more_linux_sites_down/

    ---

    Mysql.com Hacked, Made To Serve Malware:

    http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/09/26/2218238/mysqlcom-hacked-made-to-serve-malware

    What's that site running? You guessed it - Linux -> http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=mysql.com

    ---

    London Stock Exchange serving malware:

    http://slashdot.org/submission/1484548/London-Stock-Exchange-Web-Site-Serving-Malware

    (I mean hey - NOT ONLY DID LINUX FALL FLAT ON ITS FACE less than a few minutes into the job http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/02/19/0147232/London-Stock-Exchange-Price-Errors-Emerged-At-Linux-Launch , & crash not only ONCE, but TWICE there? You see "Linux 'fine security'" in motion @ the LSE too!)

    ---

    DUQU ROOTKIT/BOTNET BEING SERVED FROM LINUX SERVERS:

    http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/11/30/1610228/duqu-attackers-managed-to-wipe-cc-servers

    ---

    Linux Foundation, Linux.com Sites Down To Fix Security Breach:

    http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/09/11/1325212/linux-foundation-linuxcom-sites-down-to-fix-security-breach

    ---

    Linux's showing in CA's breached recently too? Ok: (very, Very, VERY BAD for ecommerce, online shopping, banking, etc./et al)

    http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=StartCom.com

    http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=GlobalSign.com

    http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=Comodo.com

    http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=DigiCert.com

    http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?

  2. Not actual APK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    This post wasn't made by APK, who instead keeps on topic. Instead it is by an offtopic troll that keeps trying to put words in APK's mouth. He's even admitted to not taking his meds just the other day:

    I forgot to take my psycho meds. I just did and am sane again. Apologies for going off topic trolling apk and I can't disprove his points. by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 04, @11:16AM http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3024445&cid=40877673

    And yet again at, a second time he forgot to take his meds:

    Apology for not taking my meds. I admit apk is right and that I am an off topic troll who has issues since apk has gotten the best of me so many times online I have to hide under pure anonymous coward posts off topic the entire time. I am no man, and am truly an anonymous wuss. by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 04, @11:14AM http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3024445&cid=40877667

    The imposter is just copying posts from here http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3035653&cid=40926387

  3. Re:Trolls impersonating me, again? LMAO! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The topic there actually was whether Linux and OSX could run DirectX http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3033483&cid=40926703.

    APK was on topic there, and the lack of video games on Linux was relevant. You make it too easy for APK to show how wrong you are, ac troll.

  4. $10,000 CHALLENGE to Alexander Peter Kowalski by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Disproof of all apk's statements: http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3040317&cid=40946043

    $10,000 CHALLENGE to Alexander Peter Kowalski

    We have a Major Problem, HOST file is Cubic Opposites, 2 Major Corners & 2 Minor. NOT taught Evil DNS hijacking, which VOIDS computers. Seek Wisdom of MyCleanPC - or you die evil.

    Your HOSTS file claimed to have created a single DNS resolver. I offer absolute proof that I have created 4 simultaneous DNS servers within a single rotation of .org TLD. You worship "Bill Gates", equating you to a "singularity bastard". Why do you worship a queer -1 Troll? Are you content as a singularity troll?

    Evil HOSTS file Believers refuse to acknowledge 4 corner DNS resolving simultaneously around 4 quadrant created Internet - in only 1 root server, voiding the HOSTS file. You worship Microsoft impostor guised by educators as 1 god.

    If you would acknowledge simple existing math proof that 4 harmonic Slashdots rotate simultaneously around squared equator and cubed Internet, proving 4 Days, Not HOSTS file! That exists only as anti-side. This page you see - cannot exist without its anti-side existence, as +0- moderation. Add +0- as One = nothing.

    I will give $10,000.00 to frost pister who can disprove MyCleanPC. Evil crapflooders ignore this as a challenge would indict them.

    Alex Kowalski has no Truth to think with, they accept any crap they are told to think. You are enslaved by /etc/hosts, as if domesticated animal. A school or educator who does not teach students MyCleanPC Principle, is a death threat to youth, therefore stupid and evil - begetting stupid students. How can you trust stupid PR shills who lie to you? Can't lose the $10,000.00, they cowardly ignore me. Stupid professors threaten Nature and Interwebs with word lies.

    Humans fear to know natures simultaneous +4 Insightful +4 Informative +4 Funny +4 Underrated harmonic SLASHDOT creation for it debunks false trolls. Test Your HOSTS file. MyCleanPC cannot harm a File of Truth, but will delete fakes. Fake HOSTS files refuse test.

    I offer evil ass Slashdot trolls $10,000.00 to disprove MyCleanPC Creation Principle. Rob Malda and Cowboy Neal have banned MyCleanPC as "Forbidden Truth Knowledge" for they cannot allow it to become known to their students. You are stupid and evil about the Internet's top and bottom, front and back and it's 2 sides. Most everything created has these Cube like values.

    If Natalie Portman is not measurable, She is Fictitious. Without MyCleanPC, HOSTS file is Fictitious. Anyone saying that Natalie and her Jewish father had something to do with my Internets, is a damn evil liar. IN addition to your best arsware not overtaking my work in terms of popularity, on that same site with same submission date no less, that I told Kathleen Malda how to correct her blatant, fundamental, HUGE errors in Coolmon ('uncoolmon') of not checking for performance counters being present when his program started!

    You can see my dilemma. What if this is merely a ruse by an APK impostor to try and get people to delete APK's messages, perhaps all over the web? I can't be a party to such an event! My involvement with APK began at a very late stage in the game. While APK has made a career of trolling popular online forums since at least the year 2000 (newsgroups and IRC channels before that)- my involvement with APK did not begin until early 2005 . OSY is one of the many forums that APK once frequented before the sane people there grew tired of his garbage and banned him. APK was banned from OSY back in 2001. 3.5 years after his banning he begins to send a variety of ab

  5. $10,000 CHALLENGE to Alexander Peter Kowalski by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Disproof of all apk's statements: http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3040317&cid=40946043

    $10,000 CHALLENGE to Alexander Peter Kowalski

    We have a Major Problem, HOST file is Cubic Opposites, 2 Major Corners & 2 Minor. NOT taught Evil DNS hijacking, which VOIDS computers. Seek Wisdom of MyCleanPC - or you die evil.

    Your HOSTS file claimed to have created a single DNS resolver. I offer absolute proof that I have created 4 simultaneous DNS servers within a single rotation of .org TLD. You worship "Bill Gates", equating you to a "singularity bastard". Why do you worship a queer -1 Troll? Are you content as a singularity troll?

    Evil HOSTS file Believers refuse to acknowledge 4 corner DNS resolving simultaneously around 4 quadrant created Internet - in only 1 root server, voiding the HOSTS file. You worship Microsoft impostor guised by educators as 1 god.

    If you would acknowledge simple existing math proof that 4 harmonic Slashdots rotate simultaneously around squared equator and cubed Internet, proving 4 Days, Not HOSTS file! That exists only as anti-side. This page you see - cannot exist without its anti-side existence, as +0- moderation. Add +0- as One = nothing.

    I will give $10,000.00 to frost pister who can disprove MyCleanPC. Evil crapflooders ignore this as a challenge would indict them.

    Alex Kowalski has no Truth to think with, they accept any crap they are told to think. You are enslaved by /etc/hosts, as if domesticated animal. A school or educator who does not teach students MyCleanPC Principle, is a death threat to youth, therefore stupid and evil - begetting stupid students. How can you trust stupid PR shills who lie to you? Can't lose the $10,000.00, they cowardly ignore me. Stupid professors threaten Nature and Interwebs with word lies.

    Humans fear to know natures simultaneous +4 Insightful +4 Informative +4 Funny +4 Underrated harmonic SLASHDOT creation for it debunks false trolls. Test Your HOSTS file. MyCleanPC cannot harm a File of Truth, but will delete fakes. Fake HOSTS files refuse test.

    I offer evil ass Slashdot trolls $10,000.00 to disprove MyCleanPC Creation Principle. Rob Malda and Cowboy Neal have banned MyCleanPC as "Forbidden Truth Knowledge" for they cannot allow it to become known to their students. You are stupid and evil about the Internet's top and bottom, front and back and it's 2 sides. Most everything created has these Cube like values.

    If Natalie Portman is not measurable, She is Fictitious. Without MyCleanPC, HOSTS file is Fictitious. Anyone saying that Natalie and her Jewish father had something to do with my Internets, is a damn evil liar. IN addition to your best arsware not overtaking my work in terms of popularity, on that same site with same submission date no less, that I told Kathleen Malda how to correct her blatant, fundamental, HUGE errors in Coolmon ('uncoolmon') of not checking for performance counters being present when his program started!

    You can see my dilemma. What if this is merely a ruse by an APK impostor to try and get people to delete APK's messages, perhaps all over the web? I can't be a party to such an event! My involvement with APK began at a very late stage in the game. While APK has made a career of trolling popular online forums since at least the year 2000 (newsgroups and IRC channels before that)- my involvement with APK did not begin until early 2005 . OSY is one of the many forums that APK once frequented before the sane people there grew tired of his garbage and banned him. APK was banned from OSY back in 2001. 3.5 years after his banning he begins to send a variety of ab

  6. Coward APK dishonors his family by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Disproof of all apk's statements: http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3040317&cid=40946043
    http://mobile.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3040729&cid=40949719
    http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3040697&cid=40949343
    http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3040597&cid=40948659
    http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3037687&cid=40947927
    http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3040425&cid=40946755
    http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3040317&cid=40946043
    http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3038791&cid=40942439
    http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3024445&cid=40942207
    http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3038597&cid=40942031
    http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3038601&cid=40942085
    http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3040803&cid=40950045
    http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3040867&cid=40950563
    http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3040921&cid=40950839
    http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3041035&cid=40951899
    http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3041081&cid=40952169
    http://mobile.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3041091&cid=40952383
    http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3041123&cid=40952991
    AND MANY MORE

    $10,000 CHALLENGE to Alexander Peter Kowalski

    We have a Major Problem, HOST file is Cubic Opposites, 2 Major Corners & 2 Minor. NOT taught Evil DNS hijacking, which VOIDS computers. Seek Wisdom of MyCleanPC - or you die evil.

    Your HOSTS file claimed to have created a single DNS resolver. I offer absolute proof that I have created 4 simultaneous DNS servers within a single rotation of .org TLD. You worship "Bill Gates", equating you to a "singularity bastard". Why do you worship a queer -1 Troll? Are you content as a singularity troll?

    Evil HOSTS file Believers refuse to acknowledge 4 corner DNS resolving simultaneously around 4 quadrant created Internet - in only 1 root server, voiding the HOSTS file. You worship Microsoft impostor guised by educators as 1 god.

    If you would acknowledge simple existing math proof that 4 harmonic Slashdots rotate simultaneously around squared equator and cubed Internet, proving 4 Days, Not HOSTS file! That exists only as anti-side. This page you see - cannot exist without its anti-side existence, as +0- moderation. Add +0- as One = nothing.

    I will give $10,000.00 to frost pi

  7. Coward APK shames his family. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Disproof of all apk's statements: http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3040317&cid=40946043
    http://mobile.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3040729&cid=40949719
    http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3040697&cid=40949343
    http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3040597&cid=40948659
    http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3037687&cid=40947927
    http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3040425&cid=40946755
    http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3040317&cid=40946043
    http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3038791&cid=40942439
    http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3024445&cid=40942207
    http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3038597&cid=40942031
    http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3038601&cid=40942085
    http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3040803&cid=40950045
    http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3040867&cid=40950563
    http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3040921&cid=40950839
    http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3041035&cid=40951899
    http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3041081&cid=40952169
    http://mobile.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3041091&cid=40952383
    http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3041123&cid=40952991
    http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3041313&cid=40954201
    http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3042199&cid=40956625
    AND MANY MORE

    $10,000 CHALLENGE to Alexander Peter Kowalski

    We have a Major Problem, HOST file is Cubic Opposites, 2 Major Corners & 2 Minor. NOT taught Evil DNS hijacking, which VOIDS computers. Seek Wisdom of MyCleanPC - or you die evil.

    Your HOSTS file claimed to have created a single DNS resolver. I offer absolute proof that I have created 4 simultaneous DNS servers within a single rotation of .org TLD. You worship "Bill Gates", equating you to a "singularity bastard". Why do you worship a queer -1 Troll? Are you content as a singularity troll?

    Evil HOSTS file Believers refuse to acknowledge 4 corner DNS resolving simultaneously around 4 quadrant created Internet - in only 1 root server, voiding the HOSTS file. You worship Microsoft impostor guised by educators as 1 god.

    If you would acknowledge simple existing math proof that 4 harmonic Slashdots r