[Diablo III] A friendly reminder for D3 players

Not exactly the visual example, but you get what I'm trying to say here.

From problems during launch date to choppy connection and unbearable lag, it would seem Blizzard has its hands full just to fix their Battle.net servers for their newest baby. With numerous sudden maintenance downtime, account theft and hijacking is another problem that's rising.

There have been numerous complaints about their accounts being 'hacked'. One such anecdote was a player joined in a public game, and during their farming operations quests he got suddenly booted out for some reason or another. When the player attempted to log back in, he was told that his B.net credentials and password have been changed or what. Some say because the authentication token during public games were shared, while others blamed hidden keyloggers and malware as culprits.

Like I said, it's an anecdote. I can't even verify it.

But one person had a first-hand experience with his account being hacked. Ars Technica writer Kyle Orland was one of us; a somewhat-normal player: no high-level legendary equipment to boast about and such. But when it comes to hackers and account thieves, there's no discrimination on who they want to target. And bad luck will strike at anyone, and in the internet, no account is truly safe without added security.

Read his first hand account over at the Ars Technica page, as it serves as a cautionary tale for everyone who plays online games. I remember a tip that my computer science friend told me a long time ago: use different passwords for every account you have in the internet, be it Yahoo! messenger, Facebook, Twitter, Gmail and such. If you use one password for everything, consider your life totally screwed when your accounts are compromised.

So for Blizzard fans and players, I leave it up to you on what other security measures you do on your game accounts. For further reading, head to their B.net FAQ site.