Blizzard gaming network hacked. Users should change password

Blizzard Entertainment, a popular online game company in Hong Kong had issued a notice on the official website. Their security team discovered unauthorized and illegal access to Blizzard's internal network. According to their information, there is not yet any evidence that financial information (such as credit card, billing address, real name etc) was compromised.

The security team found unauthorized accesses to the e-mail address of global users and the answer to the personal security question, and information relating to mobile and dial-in authenticators for the players on North American servers (which generally includes players from North America, Latin America, Australia, New Zealand, and Southeast Asia).

Although they believe this information is not enough to allow anyone to log in the Battle.net account, they recommend the players of the North American servers to change their password, and to change their secret questions and answers, as well as update their authenticator software.

Blizzard Entertainment have multiple popular online games in Hong Kong, including Diablo, World of WarCraft, StarCraft etc. Some of the games are also using the affected North American servers. We recommend users to change the password in accordance with the recommendations of the gaming company.

In addition, criminals may take this opportunity to issue a large number of phishing e-mail to steal the user login information. As Blizzard Entertainment said that they will never ask the user's password by email, users shall bear in mind that this tip.