First things first: everybody, go change your Battle.net passwords. I have to imagine that someone at Blizzard uttered the phrase “Besides, what else could possibly go wrong” over the weekend, prompting the god of comedically cruel timing to bring its massive whack-a-mole hammer down on Blizzard’s doorstep. And so: hackers! Diablo III‘s official forums are currently rife with tales of items and gold going missing and characters even being hijacked wholesale. Even Eurogamer has firsthand experience. Now, though, Blizzard’s attempting to play knight-in-increasingly-tarnished-armor once again.

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