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Yesterday Blizzard announced that “when you are in the business of fun, not every week ends up being fun”. Blizzard has detected a security breach in their battle.net servers. The hackers were able to access North American emails associated with s, encrypted s, and the answers to security questions. Even though only encrypted s were stolen, Blizzard recommends that you change your anyway.

[quote_simple]Some data was illegally accessed, including a list of email addresses for global Battle.net s, 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 s.

We also know that cryptographically scrambled versions of Battle.net s (not actual s) for players on North American servers were taken. We use Secure Remote protocol (SRP) to protect these s, which is designed to make it extremely difficult to extract the actual , and also means that each would have to be deciphered individually. As a precaution, however, we recommend that players on North American servers change their . Please click this link to change your . Moreover, if you have used the same or similar s for other purposes, you may want to consider changing those s as well.[/quote_simple]

The whole article is here. Change your s everyone

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