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The World of Warcraft has been compromised as a hacker’s gaming character has virtually massacred all of the characters in the game’s major cities.
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The carnage in World of Warcraft <\/FONT><\/TD><\/TR><\/TBODY><\/TABLE>

They’ve created an unstoppable character that can destroy all others, including those controlled by the game. Ironically, the TV show South Park parodied such a situation in an episode titled Make Love, Not Warcraft six years ago. <\/P>

Unfortunately the real life fix to this escapade is far less entertaining than that of the episode; the game’s creator, Activision Blizzard, simply released a software patch to prevent repeats. <\/P>

“This exploit has already been hot-fixed, so it should not be repeatable,” Blizzard said in an online forum.<\/P>

According to the BBC<\/A>, more than 10 million gamers play World of Warcraft. <\/P>

Olivia Grace, who contributes to WoW insider as an editor believes “it was a significant hack.” <\/P>

“They discovered a method to roll a level-one [beginner] character, which ran to the major cities.<\/P>

“We don’t know exactly what they did, but somehow they were able to kill every single player’s character in that city and every single computer controlled character – and they were doing this repeatedly.”<\/P>

Grace believes the same hackers have attacked WoW before, but to a lesser extent. <\/P><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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