Blizzard has always taken a hard stand against hackers and cheaters. According to an announcement on the redesigned Battle.Net front page, 350,000 BNet accounts have been banned and a new policy has been implemented. See what it means to you:

As part of our continued effort to ensure a fair and fun online experience for all Battle.net players, we have expanded our efforts to remove cheaters from StarCraft and Diablo II. We have identified and closed over 350,000 StarCraft and Diablo II accounts which were found to be using third-party hacks.

The Diablo II CD keys associated with the closed Diablo II accounts are now restricted from playing on Battle.net for approximately 30 days. Repeat offenders will have their accounts closed and their CD keys permanently banned from Battle.net.

As a reminder, we reserve the right to close the accounts and ban the CD keys of players who are caught cheating on Battle.net. Cheating ruins the game experience for legitimate players, and we will not tolerate it.

With Starcraft and Diablo II still in the top 10 game bestsellers on a regular basis, it's great to see Blizzard continuing their stance on cheating.