World of Warcraft: Vulnerability caused a mass extinction - Update

Yesterday you could admire in World of Warcraft with a good mass extinction: hackers had made a security hole advantage and therefore organized a veritable genocide. The backgrounds of the hackers who are responsible for the mass deaths have so far not known.

Update: As Blizzard announced meanwhile that it had fixed the exploit via hotfix. He should not occur again. You take such incidents very seriously and will make an appropriate investigation. Relevant information should be sent to hacks@blizzard.com.

Source: Battle Net

Yesterday afternoon, in World of Warcraft takes a good mass extinction. This was not about a virtual epidemic, as has been in the wow gold game as early as 2005, it is simply a vulnerability. Affected were mostly American but also German Realms. The playing pieces of whole cities were killed here in a few minutes.

Apparently it was not just about a hacker, but a group. This exploited a vulnerability that those in charge of the MMORPG World of Warcraft, however, fixed in a hotfix already. The hackers have also added a video to the mass extinction - this can be found below the article in the gallery. Reasons the perpetrators are not known, maybe you just wanted to point out impressively on the vulnerability. Immediately provided by the hotfix that vulnerability is not close.

Background on World of Warcraft
With World of Warcraft Blizzard MMORPG launched in 2005, the par. Two add-ons (Burning Crusade, Wrath of the Lich King) have already been published, a third (Cataclysm) follows. In addition to buying the game for the player will be charged a monthly fee, the annual Blizzard secure over a billion U.S. dollars in revenue. Worldwide, there are 11.5 million subscribers, which are immersed in the world of Azeroth. Below you will find all the articles about World of Warcraft, which were posted on PC wow gold Games Hardware Online. More about World of Warcraft, there are issues on our side.