Wow account hacked while on holiday

[CHR1S]

I return to find I've been hacked, my gold gone and any high value sell able item gone.

 

I had a good password, an email address that isn't my usual and a gaming PC that is never used on the web.

 

Second time its happened in the history of the account.

 

Seems fishy to me.

[FN-GM]

Have you seen the big bang theory? If so you should do what Sheldon does

[CHR1S]

And what does he do?

[FN-GM]

Calls the police. Tracks down the person who hacks his account then gets a girl to beat him up

[CHR1S]

lol, might just take it as an omen and give up on wow again.

[MacGeek]

That was what eventually caused me to stop playing. Unfortunately it was too late to save my degree

[CHR1S]

Its weird, I know how to be secure online, I knew the precautions to take since I was hacked before (when my account was disabled, they re-activated and added new CC details).

 

They knew I was away, did it, and changed no other settings, details, passwords, authenticator or ANYTHING!

 

Weird.

[LosOjos]

Its weird, I know how to be secure online, I knew the precautions to take since I was hacked before (when my account was disabled, they re-activated and added new CC details).

 

They knew I was away, did it, and changed no other settings, details, passwords, authenticator or ANYTHING!

 

Weird.

 

Do you share your house with anyone? Could it be a family member/flat mate doing it to wind you up? Ever logged in at work? Maybe a colleague?

 

Seems you've taken all the precautions you can, making it seem like somebody has simply sat at your machine and splurged your valuables "for a laugh"...

 

Alternatively, if you have a missus, could she be doing it to make you quit?

 

Think outside the box lol

[CHR1S]

Home PC, all family and missus on holiday with me, never played anywhere else but that single PC.

 

Only other thing is the wow armoury on my iphone.

[CAM]

How long ago was the first hacking? Could be a keylogger if they are close. These are the possible and often overlooked causes no matter how complicated your password is:

 

- Game password same as E-Mail password.

- Poor E-Mail password in the first place (likely cause of first hacking plus once you have the E-Mail password, reset is easy).

- Login details re-used on guild or related (even forgotten about) website and that was breached (a lot more common then people realise, especially if they put in their game E-Mail address and their password no matter what username they pick).

- Phishing attempt was succesful, had any Blizzard E-Mails lately? Or even for other games where you may have re-used login details?

- Your security question being stupidly easy to guess. Can even be revealed with "pimp name" style games on social networks.

[Arcath]

I use a battle.net authenticator, means you need my email/password and a time sensitive code generated on my phone. It does get annoying sometimes when my phone is not next to my PC but I'd rather suffer through and not loose my stuff.

 

When my brother got hacked it was his email account not his WoW, they just clicked forgot password and waited for the email.

[CHR1S]

No viruses, no compromised email accounts, totally different passwords for both. Different passwords for sites and games etc.

 

Been years since I was hacked before.

 

They cleared my main char of his gold, guild tabbard and teleport to org cloak. Didnt touch any other char and just created a mule char to ship it.

Seems it was done in a hurry. Seems very weird to me, didnt trigger the mobile alerts I have set up too as nothing was changed.

[CHR1S]

Bliz restored my account with no issues.

Ive added the authenticator as I still can not find how it was compromised and also decided to cancel until the new expansion is released.

 

Might get diablo 3

[sonofsanta]

Bliz restored my account with no issues.

Ive added the authenticator as I still can not find how it was compromised and also decided to cancel until the new expansion is released.

 

Might get diablo 3

 

Weren't they doing an offer of getting D3 for free if you subbed to WoW for a year?

Sign Up for the World of Warcraft Annual Pass and Get Diablo III Free - World of Warcraft

[CAM]

Yep, waiting to play my free copy myself.

[RabbieBurns]

go outside and play in the sunshine

[AMLinington]

If you were hacked before, how come you didn't put the authenticator on it then? Our guild went through a spate of attempted and successful hackings (it seemed a certain guild was being targetted or a set of guilds on our realm). I bought an authenticator (this was before I had a smartphone) and have never had a single issue. I've had emails telling me people have been trying to reset my password but they always fail at the hardware authenticator (I am certain the keyring authenticators are more secure than the app ones). I've invested far too much time and love into my WoW account to let some s**t-smeared little scrote get all my gold and epics. Across my toons on a single realm I don't even break the 50k gold mark so it's hardly a worthy hack. Our Guild master got done 3 or 4 times because of his access to the guild bank and all the thousands of gold sitting in it...

[korifugi]

go outside and play in the sunshine

 

Not in this weather!

[CHR1S]

If you were hacked before, how come you didn't put the authenticator on it then?

 

It didn't exist! I was first hacked when I stopped playing just after I finished BWL, back in vanilla.

 

The account was inactive and someone hacked it, added game time, and then used it as a gold selling account.

[AMLinington]

See I always wonder how they know what address to use. I keep getting phishing scams to my 'junk' account saying that my WoW account is being suspended due to illegal activity unless I visit what is clearly a phishing URL and enter my details to 'answer the charges'. Funny, I don't HAVE a WoW account on that address.... Interestingly, I've never had one of these to the account I actually use for my WoW account...

[sonofsanta]

See I always wonder how they know what address to use. I keep getting phishing scams to my 'junk' account saying that my WoW account is being suspended due to illegal activity unless I visit what is clearly a phishing URL and enter my details to 'answer the charges'. Funny, I don't HAVE a WoW account on that address.... Interestingly, I've never had one of these to the account I actually use for my WoW account...

 

I get those even though I've never played WoW (Diablo II was my battle.net poison of choice ). It's telling that they are by far the most believable and well constructed phishing scams around - if it wasn't for the fact I know I don't have a WoW account, they'd have me fooled.

 

Just shows how much money there is in gaming I suppose that it's worth putting the effort in to chase a technically competent market rather than trying to copy a bank and aiming for pensioners.

[CHR1S]

Someone mentioned to me its all insider done, there is no way I could have been hacked by my own doing (ok a very very slim chance, but highly unlikely).

 

How did they know I was on vacation? How did they find the battle.net email I use? How did they get my password and know not to change anything to trigger the mobile alerts?

Neither my wow PC or emails have been compromised, where else is the attack originating?

[X-13]

Someone mentioned to me its all insider done, there is no way I could have been hacked by my own doing (ok a very very slim chance, but highly unlikely).

 

How did they know I was on vacation? How did they find the battle.net email I use? How did they get my password and know not to change anything to trigger the mobile alerts?

Neither my wow PC or emails have been compromised, where else is the attack originating?

 

Who has access to your WoW computer?

 

Find them and kick them in the nuts. If female, it'd be a boob punch of your choice. [left or right? You decide.]

[CHR1S]

Who has access to your WoW computer?

 

Find them and kick them in the nuts. If female, it'd be a boob punch of your choice. [left or right? You decide.]

 

Only me, when I say this is a very weird (and concerning) scenario I mean it!

 

The only plausible way I can think of is that a gold seller has somehow compromised an account of someone on my realfriends list (which shows account email addresses) and just brute-forced the password or the wow armoury iPhone app is in some way compromised.

[X-13]

Only me, when I say this is a very weird (and concerning) scenario I mean it!

 

The only plausible way I can think of is that a gold seller has somehow compromised an account of someone on my realfriends list (which shows account email addresses) and just brute-forced the password or the wow armoury iPhone app is in some way compromised.

 

 

Now... I'm not saying it's Aliens.

 

But, those space cows always looked shifty to me. [And they sound russian.]