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Re:Blizzard Suspends Professional Hearthstone Player for Hon... by jonny_eh on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @06:14PM (#21197865)
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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Re:Blizzard Suspends Professional Hearthstone Player for Hon... by Sohcahtoa82 on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @02:27PM (#21206295)
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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Re:Blizzard Suspends Professional Hearthstone Player for Hon... by FDSGSG on Thursday October 10, 2019 @04:18AM (#21212113)
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.

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