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Blizzard Entertainment recently announced that they have closed a number of Warcraft III: Frozen Throne beta accounts which were observed to be using hacks. The corresponding base Warcraft III CD-keys have been disabled as well.
Blizzard's official announcement:

We have identified a small number of accounts and CD keys with which a hack or cheat program has been used while playing the beta of Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne on Battle.net. In keeping with our aggressive stance against hacks and cheats, the following actions have been taken:

-The identified beta accounts have been permanently closed.
-The beta CD keys and Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos CD keys associated with these accounts have been permanently banned from the beta realms (if two players shared a beta CD key and one cheated, both players were effectively banned).
-Any additional CD keys that had been used to access Battle.net along with the banned keys mentioned above have also been banned from the beta realms. For instance, if the beta was installed with two different copies of Reign of Chaos, the beta CD key and the CD keys for BOTH copies of Reign of Chaos have been banned.

Running the Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne beta test allows us to fine-tune the game experience; cheating during the test can severely hinder our efforts. We appreciate your understanding and cooperation in this matter. If you would like to report additional instances of hacking or cheating, please contact us at hacks@blizzard.com. Thank you again for your continued support.

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