According to The Register the game server of Diablo II is hacked and cracked!
Players of the online fantasy game Diablo II must wait almost a week for their characters to be restored after a hack attack, developer Blizzard Entertainment revealed this morning, Andrew Smith writes. |
Hackers reportedly exploited a weakness in Blizzard's servers to gain access to player accounts. By repeatedly attempting to login as another player, they caused the authorisation process to fail, which then granted access.
They then took control of the player's character and stripped it of equipment and bonus items. In some cases the characters were killed.
The hack seems to have been targeted at characters of a high skill level with valuable items and experience points. Such characters will have been built up over many months of playing, often for hours each day.
Blizzard announced this morning: "Monday, January 8, we will be reviving all hardcore characters who died between December 19th and January 1st. The restored hardcore characters will be revived with the experience, skills and items possessed as of Tuesday, December 19th."
There goes your super-killall-lazer gun
