Att företag och webbplatser råkar ut för intrång med läckt användarinformation som följd har blivit något av vardagsmat. De senaste månaderna har både Yahoo och Nvidia hamnat i blåsväder, och i slutet av förra året stod spelnätverket Steam i skottgluggen.
Nu har turen kommit till Blizzard, och inget mindre än gigantiska nätverket Battle.net. Här samlas spelare från jättetitlar som Diablo III, World of Warcraft och Starcraft II, vilket innebär miljontals aktiva konton. Enligt företaget innefattar den läckta informationen e-postadresser för alla användare utanför Kina, samt för vissa regioner krypterade lösenord, svaret på säkerhetsfrågan och viss annan data relaterad till företagets authenticator-system.
Some data was illegally accessed, including a list of email addresses for global Battle.net users, outside of China. For players on North American servers (which generally includes players from North America, Latin America, Australia, New Zealand, and Southeast Asia) the answer to the personal security question, and information relating to Mobile and Dial-In Authenticators were also accessed.
Främst handlar det om konton för spelare på de nordamerikanska servrarna, vilket borde göra att de flesta svenskar ligger utanför riskzonen med endast en e-postadress på vift. Blizzard menar även att krypteringen gör informationen mycket svåranvänd, men rekommenderar trots det ett lösenordsbyte på alla tjänster.
SweClockers rekommenderar alla användare att välja lösenord med omsorg, och att undvika vanliga ord som lätt går att hitta i ordlistor. Det är även lämpligt att variera lösenord mellan olika webbplatser för att minimera skadorna vid ett eventuellt intrång.
Important Security Update
Players and Friends,
Even when you are in the business of fun, not every week ends up being fun. This week, our security team found an unauthorized and illegal access into our internal network here at Blizzard. We quickly took steps to close off this access and began working with law enforcement and security experts to investigate what happened.
At this time, we’ve found no evidence that financial information such as credit cards, billing addresses, or real names were compromised. Our investigation is ongoing, but so far nothing suggests that these pieces of information have been accessed.
Some data was illegally accessed, including a list of email addresses for global Battle.net users, outside of China. For players on North American servers (which generally includes players from North America, Latin America, Australia, New Zealand, and Southeast Asia) the answer to the personal security question, and information relating to Mobile and Dial-In Authenticators were also accessed. Based on what we currently know, this information alone is NOT enough for anyone to gain access to Battle.net accounts.
We also know that cryptographically scrambled versions of Battle.net passwords (not actual passwords) for players on North American servers were taken. We use Secure Remote Password protocol (SRP) to protect these passwords, which is designed to make it extremely difficult to extract the actual password, and also means that each password would have to be deciphered individually. As a precaution, however, we recommend that players on North American servers change their password. Please click this link to change your password. Moreover, if you have used the same or similar passwords for other purposes, you may want to consider changing those passwords as well.
In the coming days, we'll be prompting players on North American servers to change their secret questions and answers through an automated process. Additionally, we'll prompt mobile authenticator users to update their authenticator software. As a reminder, phishing emails will ask you for password or login information. Blizzard Entertainment emails will never ask for your password. We deeply regret the inconvenience to all of you and understand you may have questions. Please find additional information here.
We take the security of your personal information very seriously, and we are truly sorry that this has happened.
Sincerely,
Mike Morhaime
Prisjakt.nu
