Blizzard Denies Authenticator Hacking

Everyone take a chill pill now.

There's been lots of rumors lately of hacking Battle.net accounts ever since Blizzard's flagship franchise Diablo launched its third iteration. Because, well, it's Diablo, and hacking goes hand-in-hand with it. But what was alarming about them is that it apparently bypassed the Battle.net Authenticator, which - given that it's effectively like having a keycard to get into your World of Warcraft or D3 account - would be really bad. 

Blizzard has stated in a forum post that, yes, hacking is happening, and they urge players to use their Authenticator system. But more importantly they have also said that the times where the account was hacked was due to a stolen password, and there was no Authenticator used. A relief, to be sure, but that also makes it pretty important that you use one - even if you don't have a smartphone, there's an SMS text system in place. No reason not to, now.

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