No. Not even close. The entire amount of duplicated info was his credit card number and the associated billing address, neither of which can easily be permuted between sites.

Which is relevant to what, exactly?


it shouldn't be. Honan's point is that both Amazon and Apple (...and who knows who else?) treat it as if it is. Seriously, did you even read the Wired article?

The physical authenticators haven't been compromised

With regard to Mobile Authenticators, information was taken that could potentially compromise the integrity of North American Mobile Authenticators. We have no evidence that other regions were affected. We are working quickly to provide software updates to users.

Additionally we believe the integrity of the physical authenticators remains intact.

The physical authenticators haven't been compromised, which leads me to believe that Blizzard handle the mobile authenticators in a different way.

But no, I don't really understand public key auth, but I still don't understand how it's a 'severe breach' either, they're only bloody game accounts at the end of the day.

I... Is there any point conversing with you? Haven't we already established that "just game accounts" definitely isn't all they are?

Yes, and all of the information held within. How are we not on the same page? It's not complicated!

And now you've just reiterated the points Rich already addressed above! Regardless of whose "fault" it was, that guy suffered at the hands of hackers because a) some major websites have particularly lax security measures, and b) seemingly innocuous data is actually quite the opposite because of these lax security measures. That's regardless of the guy's own blunders, which we can learn from.

that guy suffered at the hands of hackers because a) some major websites have particularly lax security measures, and b) seemingly innocuous data is actually quite the opposite because of these lax security measures.

Bollocks! Hackers gonna hack. Certainty.

Ha! I thought rule number one of ecommerce/storing secure data was to assume that someone is definitely going to hack you.

Is it an expansion, though? I mean, it has just as much content as SCII, only the campaign is Zerg instead.

Regardless, I've had it with Blizzard and they can lick the salt from my balls.

I have been enjoying the 360 version of this...I am assuming that I am the only one here who is.

So, you get a very generous demo of Diablo 3 on the old PS3 right now, it's just a shame the game itself is so dull. I've never played a Diablo game before, are they all so boring?

The setting and atmosphere of Diablo 3 seemed very nice to be fair to it, it's just the game play that bored me so much I never even finished the demo. The perspective and quality of the graphics reminded me a lot of the Lara Croft game and that just made it worse because I spent the entire time wishing I was playing a game like that instead. Indeed if they kept everything else about it and just made the core combat like the Lara Croft game it would be fucking excellent; the quests and RPG elements would work just as well. Someone go and make that game for me right now.

I have been enjoying the 360 version of this...I am assuming that I am the only one here who is.

Ange and I were very much enjoying it on the PS3 before GTA V came out and ruined that.

I have been playing it, but it was just too easy to be much fun. I set the difficulty level to the highest I was allowed to, but there is still little challenge, all that happens is that you level up faster. Which means that after finishing chapter 1, I am already halfway towards the level cap. I have uninstalled it now, and I don't think I'll play it again soon, if ever. Shame, because I like everything else about it.