I recently had the unfortunate occurence of being hacked. Here was the "wierd" part about it: When I found out my account was hacked, I checked my running processes and sure enough I ran across and unknown. I started checking my browser history and went back 3 months. The computer I play WoW on is just that, for WoW. I had been to wow o-boards and allak... and that was it.

So, I either got it from allak OR I got the virus a while back and it took it 3 months before it went into effect.

Something that I want to point out... ANYTIME a major holiday (i.e. Christmas) comes around or other Major Holidays (i.e. Expansion Pack releases), it would be a very good idea to change your password in the weeks leading up to that. Gold Companies realize that blizzard support will be cut back so response time will be slower, people will typically be saving up gold, and the demand for gold will skyrocket.

I have had two friends get hacked as well as myself. I got hit the week before Wotlk came out and my two friends got hit the week before christmas. This has been a trend among others that I have come across.

Blizzard is getting account recovery down to an artform though. My main account got cleaned out pretty badly, but they didn't even make it to the mailbox on my second account before it got slapped with a temp ban. The rest of my accounts didn't get touched thankfully.

All in all, I got the majority of my stuff back that was linked to my character, but my guild was nuked, bank gone and about 5k-6k gold worth of items in the bank non-recovered. This is the second time my bank has been cleaned out by hackers. (First was when my friends got hit, second was when I got hit.) I really wish blizzard would be able to restore those items as well. That's probably 10k gold/items that I've been unable to recover from it.