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World of Warcraft secretly embedding user data in screenshots – report
Blizzard Entertainment has reportedly been watermarking screenshots taken inside World of Warcraft with encrypted user data for years, though it never notified players that their information is shared in the images. According to users who discovered the watermarks, each screenshot taken by players with the MMORPG client contains information that “can be easily recovered and decrypted by hackers,” including account IDs, timestamps, and the IP address of the realm. Though the watermarks do not contain …
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