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Blizzard.com.ua – a Ukrainian website dedicated to Blizzard games fans – has been breached by hackers operating under the Anonymous and AntiSec banners.   “About time you get you Content Management Systems updated son?!” they wrote next to the data leak sample. This indicates that the attackers leveraged an unpatched security hole in order to gain access to the site’s databases. The paste published on peoplesliberationfront.net contains a link to a 7 megabyte file that stores 19,106 usernames, passwords, email addresses and other user details. According to Cyber War News , besides this file, there are two other databases out there, apparently containing administrator details and information belonging to World of Warcraft players.  Hopefully, this will act as a wakeup call for the site’s administrators and they’ll address the vulnerability, but also notify their users to ensure that their details cannot be misused. Source:...

Account details for millions of players have been stolen in a hack attack on Blizzard, the maker of World of Warcraft, StarCraft and Diablo.   Blizzard revealed details of the breach in a message posted to its Battle.net account management service. Players in North America should change their login details for the account management service, said Blizzard. So far, it said, there was no evidence that credit card numbers and other personal details had been taken. Angry gamers In the message, Blizzard boss Mike Morhaime said it discovered on 4 August that there had been "unauthorized and illegal access" to its internal network. Its investigation into the breach revealed that whoever broke in got a copy of a list of all email addresses for Battle.net users outside China. Battle.net is the overarching account management and login service gamers use to play Blizzard games including World of Warcraft, StarCraft 2 and Diablo 3. Also accessed was informa...