WoW account hacked

[chemical]

One of my accounts that has been inactive was hacked earlier. though the email i use i have never used on any site.. nor have i downloaded anything ( this is my legit pc hehe) i was wondering if anyone could post or PM me tips on how people are actually doing this? probably prefer PM, though blizz restored all my stuff. im just amazed/confused on how they did it. Don't be scared i know someone on this forum has done it.. just pm me

in the end i have a free month of game time and all my stuff back..

 

[fpsware]

I expierenced a similar unfortunately incident many months back. The email address used and the computer were "clean"; the email address had never been used for anything other than that WoW account. I still don't know how it happened.

 

[spacebooger]

i made my sister an account awhile back with a "clean" email which i only had access to and she never played anyway, some how that account was accessed (my accounts have never been) there must be a leak somewhere...cuz i swear that email started receiving the want to buy gold email's right after attaching it to the account and also had to contact a gm to get all the shit back.

 

[dudekde22]

Similiar situation happened to me about 6 months ago. My main account was hacked even though the computer was free of viruses and malware according to my software sweeps. To this day i'm unable to figure out how i got hacked, but it is indeed scary. Right after it happened i got an authenticator, but i still wonder how safe i really am going forward.

 

[Addicted.]

FUD Keylogger (0/28) Fully undetected. Could of been in ANY download.
Or bruteforced (program which runs every letter, symbol, & number combination to find a password.
All they would have to know is a guessed email.

 

[hazard]

Get your self an authenticator mate. If you have an iPhone you can install it for free

 

[Swizzie]

I expierenced a similar unfortunately incident many months back. The email address used and the computer were "clean"; the email address had never been used for anything other than that WoW account. I still don't know how it happened.

WoW employee's selling account info...you know there are ones that are dirty.

 

[Gothic\]

WoW employee's selling account info...you know there are ones that are dirty.

Real life story here from a couple of years ago:

I was working at a Software store and someone purchased a new Laptop over the phone. Turns out the Credit Card number was stolen and we got taken for 3 grand... Anyway, Police come down and had a chat with us. Turns out, the thief was an X-Employee of Cable TV Company. When he signed people up he kept a copy of all of their details. Names, addresses, phone numbers, Credit card numbers. Hell, everything he needed to steel there identities. He held on to it all and a couple of years later when he got fired, he started using/selling all his Credit Card numbers he had stockpiled. (Australia btw =) )

Anyway, moral of the story is just because you expect everyone to be honest, doesn't mean they are!

 

[Ulbjorn]

An Authenticator sounds really good if this happens often. I just hate typing in that code every time and wouldn't that cause issues with botting?

 

[Relic]

You don't type it in each login. Just if your IP changes or sometimes after the game updates.

 

[chemical]

i read this on a site, is this true??

Blizzard spokesperson Shon Damron said the company recommends using the Blizzard Launcher, a console that delivers WoW news and at the same time runs a scan of players' computers. If it finds something amiss, it alerts the player. Damron said Blizzard also recommends players use virus-scanning software.

the only site i have went to as in a forum is this site.. i don't venture off to dirty sites, download sites. or anything on this computer... that why i'm intrigued

 

[Teveel]

There really is nothing better than an authenticator.

 

[ambrose]

how does the authenticator work with botting?

 

[CodenameG]

i use keepass for all my password management, and it seems to work well so far, a randomly generated 128bit password is much better then "Password123!" plus its all in a encrypted database so even if i have it on a usb key, and i lose it, there's basically no chance someones going to be able to access those passwords.

 

[Teveel]

i use keepass for all my password management, and it seems to work well so far, a randomly generated 128bit password is much better then "Password123!" plus its all in a encrypted database so even if i have it on a usb key, and i lose it, there's basically no chance someones going to be able to access those passwords.