Ray Ban wrote on May 24, 2012, 11:51:
My source also said that this was the first time in 25 years he had experienced an account hijacking and suspected brute force hacking of Battle.net accounts.

But by all means, don't let me stop you from cherry picking quotes.

Anyway, the point of this newsbit is to at least make our audience aware that hacking IS happening, and to encourage everyone to take whatever steps necessary to protect their account. If you don't want to lose your items and gold (or even have them delete a character, which they could also do), then go change your password to something tougher and sign up for both security options.