Change your passwords... maybe...

[Razaak]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19207276

It's not clear if European accounts are affected, in one line it says "North America" and in another it says everything "outside China". Might be worth playing it safe and changing your password anyway...

 

[Xarlaxas]

What I read from the official Blizzard website was that they only got e-mail addresses for everywhere outside of China, but for the North American (and South American) servers they got authenticator data, secret questions, and the (heavily encrypted) passwords.

So, people in Europe should be fine, but it's probably never a bad thing to change your password.

 

[Ronin Storm]

it's [...] never a bad thing to change your password.

That. Should swap your passwords out on a regular basis. I imagine that most, if not all, of us don't do that nearly regularly enough.

 

[Ki!ler-Mk1]

That. Should swap your passwords out on a regular basis. I imagine that most, if not all, of us don't do that nearly regularly enough.

I don't, though i have a lot of passwords

 

[thatbloke]

Official announcement on the Blizzard website: http://eu.blizzard.com/en-gb/securityupdate.html

That seems to indicate that only NA players might be affected, however it won't hurt to change your password anyway.

 

[KillCrazy]

Just loaded my WoW launcher to find a patch being applied and then this message:

http://eu.blizzard.com/en-gb/securityupdate.html?utm_source=internal&utm_medium=launcher&utm_campaign=wow&utm_content=left-banner