Hack Again

Par Koreus le 9/1/2001 à 10:51:00 (#101576)

Tiens je savais pas que Blizzard appartenait a Vivendi, the French media giant ;)

Vu sur : http://www.securityfocus.com/templates/article.html?id=129

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.

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."

This is an embarrassing incident for Blizzard, and follows months of petitions
and protests about bugs and unbalanced gameplay in what is one of the
best-selling titles of recent years.

In August, changes to the skill system in Diablo II left some players with
severely weakened characters. Many complained that hundreds of hours invested in
the game had gone to waste.

Blizzard was also criticised for not notifying players of key changes made to
the game rules until after they had been exposed by fan sites.

Based in Irvine, California, Blizzard is a subsidiary of Vivendi, the French
media giant.

Par Babel le 9/1/2001 à 14:05:00 (#101577)

Oui. Blizzard a été racheté par Havas il y a 1 an ou 2. Et depuis le groupe Havas a été renommé Vivendi.

Par simonfou le 10/1/2001 à 15:52:00 (#101578)

Pas loin. En fait, Havas a été rachetée par la Générale Des Eaux, qui est devenue Vivendi, avant de se scinder récemment en Vivendi Environnement (rien à voir avec Havas), et Vivendi Universal.
Voila.
diablo2, c'est français maintenant.

Par Babel le 10/1/2001 à 16:58:00 (#101579)

D'ailleurs ils ont aussi Half Life.