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Re:Blizzard Network Breached; Change Your Battle.Net Passwords by Steko on Thursday August 09, 2012 @10:05PM (#4364438)
You can't brute force Blizzard passwords because they have server side limits.
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Re:Blizzard Network Breached; Change Your Battle.Net Passwords by lwat on Thursday August 09, 2012 @10:14PM (#4364468)
But in this case the server was compromised, so they can sit at home and brute force the hashes all day long.
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