dose anyone now if they have access to my personel account infrmation after the server hack ? thnk you my family is worried
Yes, good luck
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No. You’re fine. Go hug your family and tell them that everything is going to be okay.
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Probably not. And even if that was the case, it wouldn’t just be you but hundreds of thousands or millions of people, and Blizzard would likely be in huge trouble.
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DDOS is not a hack. It is getting a bunch of compromised zombie computers to send a lot of bogus network packets to a target. There’s too much bogus crap coming in that the servers can’t keep up and connections get dropped.
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- They aren’t really skilled
- They aren’t really hackers
- This has nothing to do with accessing anyone’s information, it’s more like filling Blizzard’s mailbox with junkmail until it overflows.
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They are just overloading blizz servers
I think your information is fine.
‘Skilled’. 
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No, they can only affect server speed, they will not be able to get your data, even if they could, it’s encrypted.
Are you new to the Internet?
ok thnx all i hope those hackers use there skill for good in thte future instade of evil 
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Good layman explanation
how r they not skileld ?? they took offline a multi million doller company
A DDoS is not a way to get information from a database. Basically, it is sending many, many requests to the servers, and causing them to crash. There would be no cause for alarm with regards to data leakage in this case.
You can google how to ddos and be a pro. It takes 0 skill. It’s just a bored neckbeard upset that he has to wait in a queue just like the rest of us have had to. Only we were adults about it and just waited.
listen i am scared 2 theirs no reason 2 kid urself by not admiting it
We do not know. However, oftentimes the types of people who do things such as DDoS attacks, and think they are cool, do not actually have programming skills. They likely are not capable of writing the types of scripts they use, but they may be able to modify them.
Someone may have picked up some scripts from somewhere online, modified them a little, and are using them to DDoS Blizzard servers. These types of people are referred to as script kiddies, and are not generally respected by the community. Of course, we do not know if the person or people behind the current DDoS attacks are indeed script kiddies, who lack programming skills, or are actually decent hackers, but decent hackers typically wouldn’t do this sort of thing, because it’s silly, and has quite severe repercussions.
You might think of someone that is able to configure WeakAuras, but unable to author an addon, or modify WeakAuras as an addon as fitting into this category. That is maybe being generous to script kiddies.
This isn’t a hack, please educate yourself about this sort of thing while you are unable to play, you’ll be less stressed as a result.
It’s more skilled than, say, most people would want to put the time and effort in to, but it’s not actually that difficult to do. It’s more a matter of repeatedly sending lots of information from multiple points, which does require setup and a program (or script) to do so. Most of the times the people who run the scripts are not the same as the people that write them. So they usually don’t even have a lot of the in-depth knowledge required beyond how to set up the multiple points of attack and how to run the script.
It’s like saying a terrorist is skilled because they can blow up lots of people. They’re not, and probably couldn’t even make the actual weapons, nor are they often of any considerable intelligence. They just have the resolve and time to make use of them (and the lack of compassion for any collateral damage).
The weakness lies in the way the TCP/IP protocol operates and the general peer-to-peer nature of the Internet. It would be much easier (but - at least for now - more difficult) to have single point-to-point communication that was verified along every step (and even then you may have some bad actors).
Note: I am not a network person, so any networking gurus, feel free to correct anything I didn’t get right - or expound with any needed clarifications.
I wish I had a family 
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