Lol My WoW account got hacked!

[HeadbangingLegend]

So I haven't played WoW in about 6 months simply because I got bored of it, and recently over the last month or so I've been getting e-mails from Blizzard about account related stuff, like password changes and recovery, subscription changes and some cataclysm beta shit. And just today I got an e-mail:

This is an automated notification sent from our account security system. You logined your account successfully at 2:41 on Jun. 30th form the 207.29.143.* IP range. According to the report of many players, we found that the account published spam information in the game which harassed other users seriously. This action has violated the EULA.

As too many customers' complaints, the IP range above has been blacklisted. We are concerned about whether your account has been stolen. In order to guarantee the legitimacy of your account, we need you check your account status as soon as possible.

So yeah no shit my account was hacked ages ago, I knew this from the password e-mails. What I don't get is why some lonely sad computer nerd would bother to hack my account when I shit you not, my most powerful guy was level 26, so it's not like there's anything worth hacking. And he only had the account for a little while before he was dumb enough to get HIS ip blacklisted and not mine, so now he can't play the game anyway. Have you ever had something like this happen to you? Wether the person did it was smart or not, I think in this case the guy was a pretty big fail.

Also should I be worried about some random guy hacking my un-used WoW account or could it just have been some random guy looking for an account to hack?

[Toastman7007]

At 7/18/10 04:05 AM, HeadbangingLegend wrote:

so it's not like there's anything worth hacking.

He used it as a means to spam. I think that's valid enough.

[Halberd]

I got that e-mail too, maybe the link is a phisher but I didn't even bother looking at it. I doubt it's a phisher though because they wouldn't know I had a WoW account or not.

My highest level is sixty something but MMO's bore me. I'm waiting for TOR.

[Snuff]

I once got scammed on Runescape, but that is all.

[PoloPancake]

Yeah, my account on WoW got hacked a couple times as well.
If you want to continue playing, recover your password as Blizz directs you and, while in-game, post a notice on the help tab and a GM will help you as soon as possible.

I know, my characters got deleted once, but I recovered them. Thanks.

[Im-A-Pirate]

I also got that email, so after doing some 1 second detective work, I went ahead and checked the link, it's and battl1e-b1izzer.com or net or some shit. (Note, don't go to that fucking link you retards)

So no, you weren't hacked.

But now you are.

[RubberTrucky]

How do accounts get hacked anyway?

Do people give out their passwords and user names?
Or does blizzard have poor account security set up?

[DumbassDude]

At 7/18/10 04:17 AM, Toastman7007 wrote: He used it as a means to spam. I think that's valid enough.

You make it sound like spam is actually funny.

Nah man, spam is for eating, not for online.

[Can-head]

Oh lol, i stopped playing WoW year ago, and I get tons of meail identical to this on my old email account. I leaved because i got banned over some simple stuff, so basicaly they tell me i might me haking when my account no longer exist... It's phising.

I had something like 100 email of them, all the same thing...

[silverxstein797]

Wait... do you still PAY for WoW? Why in gods name would you continue paying 15 dollars a month to keep your account active if you haven't even payed in 6 months and you know your account was hacked?

I could be wrong because I don't play WoW nor have I ever, but if you are still paying for it I advise you stop waisting you money. Now.

[Idocreating]

At 7/18/10 10:21 AM, RubberTrucky wrote: How do accounts get hacked anyway?

Do people give out their passwords and user names?
Or does blizzard have poor account security set up?

Most accounts are comprimised through malware. Phishing e-mails that redirect to a site that looks like the official WoW site to con (stupid) people into entering there account details.

Comprimised accounts are usually stripped of items for gold and the gold is then sent to some dick who paid real money for it. The account is typically then used to spam malicious links/gold selling websites.

The sad part is it's a supply/demand thing. Shit like this wouldn't happen if people didn't fucking buy gold.

[RubberTrucky]

At 7/18/10 01:04 PM, Idocreating wrote:
The sad part is it's a supply/demand thing. Shit like this wouldn't happen if people didn't fucking buy gold.

Yeah, people paying for in game gold are frickin weird.
I mean, that's like paying some other guy to play your PC games for you.
If you won't bother doing the missions and killing stuff for the money, why do you even want to play the game.