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"Blizzard has issued a security update confirming that its Battle.net servers have been hacked. The World of Warcraft and Diablo 3 creator detected the attack on August 4, with the intervening time spent fixing the security vulnerability and investigating what information had been compromised.   &amp;quot;This week, our security team found an unauthorized and illegal access into our internal network here at Blizzard,&amp;quot; the company said in a statement.  &amp;quot;We quickly took steps to close off this access and began working with law enforcement and security experts to investigate what happened.&amp;quot; Blizzard confirmed that some user data was accessed from users on the North American Battle.net server, which includes users in North America, Latin America, Australia, New Zealand, and Southeast Asia.  The hackers were able to access personal security question answers as well as mobile and dial-in authenticators on North American servers. Email addresses were also accessed for Battle.net global servers, including North American, European and Russian regions. Blizzard stated that the hackers were also able to access cryptographically-scrambled user passwords for North American Battle.net accounts.   &amp;quot;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,&amp;quot; Blizzard added. &amp;quot;At this time, we&amp;#039;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.&amp;quot; Blizzard recommends that all users change their passwords to ensure their account is protected. The company will also send out an email to North American users with instructions to change their security questions. Because email addresses were accessed, Blizzard advises that users be wary of phishing attempts, and reiterated that the company will never ask users for their password or login information in an email. Users can change their passwords by using this link. Battle.net accounts are used for all of Blizzard&amp;#039;s games, including Diablo 3, World of Warcraft and Starcraft 2. The next World of Warcraft expansion Mists of Pandaria is out in September. &amp;gt; Diablo 3 review (PC): A hellishly good dungeon crawler Watch a trailer for World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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