Comments on: Hacked.

By: Nishi

Nishi — Tue, 22 May 2012 08:36:22 +0000

Oh my word MaryAnn, you are too kind! I didn’t think anyone even read these pages, let alone offer my blog from way back. Thank you. You are hrdlay an Optimist by Accident. And i LOVE your bucket list;)

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By: Linkin’ Love | Jaded Alt

Linkin’ Love | Jaded Alt — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 03:16:12 +0000

[...] more fun: part 1, part 2, part 3. Cassandri at Hots and Dots had a scary experience with a hacker — not to throw in a spoiler, but her characters are still playable and her gear sets are [...]

By: Heirlooms Items and Beta Testing Cataclysm

Heirlooms Items and Beta Testing Cataclysm — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:27:06 +0000

[...] logged into my Battle.net account very very carefully yesterday. I actually logged in looking for some (any!) information about transferring Bind on [...]

By: Natarumah

Natarumah — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:27:37 +0000

Well, one of the nasty things of the new battle.net is that many, many people use the email with which they blog or join mmo-related sites to log in with. Before the merge, everyone could have either an email adress (if they changed) or a username (if they did not). This means that people who want access to your account need 2 pieces of info to get in – username/email and password.

After the required merge, I have seen compromised accounts reach a new height. Last year one hacked account in my WoW friends’ circle, and now almost 2 per month. Why is this?

Partly due to the keyloggers, but also the required merge.

Let’s say that there is a person with a toon named Fizzle. Before the merge, her account name was Pierre (after her boyfriend) and her password something ecclectic.
After the merge, because she loved her toon Fizzle, she used her fizzle@hotmail email address, which also is the one with which she is registered on her guild site, fansites, and mmo-champion.
Anyone who wants to hack Fizzle now has 1 piece of info – her email address. Using algorythms and scripts it is possible to generate an endless stream of passwords until the account unlocks (I have no idea if an account hardlocks after X tries, however).

TL;DR: Create a special email for your account and never use it for something else, or get an authenticator. Else you are quite at risk of having your account compromised. And it sucks, believe me.
.-= Natarumah’s last blog … DPS Q&A – Bring the pain =-.

By: Cassandri

Cassandri — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:55:42 +0000

@Nantosuelta I am using WowMatrix. Well I installed it many months ago and have run it to autoupdate my addons twice, I believe.

Assuming that the WowMatrix also installed some keylogging application, how can I be certain to remove that, too? Dumping the WowMatrix app into my trash bin wouldn’t fix the problem, would it? Or is WowMatrix a problem only when you actually run it (sending sensitive keylogged info to gold sellers)?

By: Nantosuelta

Nantosuelta — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:04:50 +0000

Cassandri, I have to ask, are you using WoWMatrix? If so, I would place the blame squarely on that and not hotmail or your security question – do a google search of “wowmatrix keylogger” and you’ll find lots – the latest build of wowmatrix has even been reported to McAffee and Symentac as a keylogger. Many of my guildies got nailed by this one – if you still have it on your system, get rid of it!

By: Haedus

Haedus — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:36:06 +0000

Great to know you got your stuff back!

I was hacked, the hacker also changed the password of my hotmail account then deleted my main (probably in a fit of rage; I didn’t have much gold).

Apparently he used whatever emblem of mine he could to purchase valor bracers, then DEed all my Soulbound epics.

The GMs returned EVERYTHING to me (including some greys and stuff that I had originally vendored myself) and I was left with 120 Abyss Crystals and 2 EoV Bracers and 2k more gold than I had before I was hacked.

A very stressing, yet funnily profitable ‘getting hacked’ experience.

By: Linkin’ Love «

Linkin’ Love « — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:56:59 +0000

By: Zai

Zai — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:00:50 +0000

The week that most of my guild converted to Battle.net accounts, five guild members got hacked; the week after, it was four, one including an officer with full access to our guild bank. From what we could tell, the battle.net site had effectively “activated” keyloggers that were already on our guildies’ systems, resulting in complete chaos as we waited every day to find out who’d been hacked next – the gmotd was changed to alert us all of free available anti-spyware and antivirus programs, whilst gbank access was changed to absolute minimum and we all changed our passwords and prayed that our guild master didn’t get hacked. He didn’t, fortunately. Interestingly, the GMs were on call 24-7, and everyone got all of their items back within 24 hours (although we couldn’t recover most of what we lost from our guild bank) – so it looks as if Blizzard had been expecting something like this to happen.

Of course, two weeks earlier someone who hadn’t logged on for two months had turned up, looted the guild bank, said “hi i dont know any1 here so im leaving” and gquit. Turned out a guildie had sold/given away their account without bothering to warn us or leave the guild. On the whole, we’d rather have been hacked >.>