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Blizzard Suspends Professional Hearthstone Player for Hong Kong Comments

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2525 points hownottowrite | 3 comments | 08 Oct 19 09:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.715s | source
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dylanz ◴[08 Oct 19 19:26 UTC] No.21196132[source]▶
If you have a Blizzard account and want to cancel your account, you can do that here: https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/2659
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saltking112 ◴[08 Oct 19 19:30 UTC] No.21196180[source]▶
What’s hilarious is that deletion of account might require government issued photo ID.

The last step for me to stop doing business with a bad actor is by giving up my privacy.

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1. jonny_eh ◴[08 Oct 19 22:14 UTC] No.21197865[source]▶
Devil's advocate here: They probably put this check in place due to the extremely high number of hacked Battle.net accounts.
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2. Sohcahtoa82 ◴[09 Oct 19 18:27 UTC] No.21206295[source]▶
Don't even need to play Devil's Advocate here.

I guarantee 100% that this is the exact reason. If they're truly deleting ALL your data, could you imagine the customer service nightmare if someone's account got hacked and the attacker could issue a request to delete the entire account with no method for recovery?

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3. FDSGSG ◴[10 Oct 19 08:18 UTC] No.21212113[source]▶
What's the point? Anyone can buy fake id scans for $50 at most, $20 if you aren't getting ripped off.

Blizzard obviously doesn't authenticate these IDs as that isn't really possible.

The fact that you can do essentially anything to a Battle.net account with just an ID scan is a huge vulnerability.