Re: Blizzard Faces Class Action Over Battle.net Security

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com>]

On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 10:42 AM, David M Chess <chess () us ibm com> wrote:
> > http://www.gamepolitics.com/2012/11/09/blizzard-faces-class-action-over-battlenet-security
> >
> > Two gamers have filed a class action against Blizzard Entertainment
> > last week on behalf of Battle.net account holders, accusing the
> > company of failing to properly secure players' personal information
> > and requiring them to purchase a Battle.net Authenticator "in order to
> > have even minimal protection for their sensitive personal, private,
> > and financial data."
>
> Heh!  Don't know the details here, but this seems weird.  Blizzard offers
> hardware two-factor authentication for a trivial fee, which is more than
> most US banks do, ffs.  And they're being sued because it's not free?  Or
> something?  Or because if you -don't- elect to use it, the resulting
> security isn't as good?  Better they shouldn't have offered it at all, I
> suppose.
>
> (My World of Warcraft characters are better protected than like 99.9% of the
> rest of my non-work-related digital data...)
I think their complaint is Blizzard failed in its responsibility to
protect their private/sensitive data. The players took extra measures
by purchasing the token, and Blizzard still failed.

Jeff
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