Today, the Blizzard Community Team alerted the fan sites that bans for hacking are incoming. We were provided with this bulletin shortly before it went up on Battle.net:

Blizzard Entertainment has always taken cheating in any form in Blizzard games very seriously, and that's no different for StarCraft II. If a StarCraft II player is found to be cheating or using hacks or modifications in any form, then as outlined in our end user license agreement, that player can be permanently banned from the game. This means that the player will be permanently unable to log in to Battle.net to play StarCraft II with his or her account.

Playing StarCraft II legitimately means playing with an unaltered game client. Doing otherwise violates our policies for Battle.net, and it goes against the spirit of fair play that all of our games are based on. We strongly recommend that you avoid using any hacks, cheats, or exploits. Suspensions and bans of players that have used or start using cheats and hacks will begin in the near future.

Recently, the community has started to notice some suspicious behavior in the occasional ladder match. Many have started to analyze replays and others have even began to compile unofficial hacker lists. Warden, Blizzard's anti-hack program is now active and as confirmed by the Community Team, bans are incoming.

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