WoW accounts getting hacked

[Bigfish]

Right, but all someone needs is access to your main email account, at which point they can pick up your account name from any non-deleted blizz email, use it to reset your password, and click the link in the email that got forwarded to the account they had access to anyway. And I don't know the specifics of what happened, I'm just airing the concept that, yes, your account CAN be compromised without having a key logger, and I only put THAT out there because there seems to be this idea that if your account was compromised, it was because you got a Trojan without consideration for the dozens of other ways people can figure out your account and password.

[Vyndree]

Anyone else think it's a bit silly to allow password reset requests without also requiring authenticator codes be entered?

I mean, even if you did forget your password, you still need the authenticator number to log in. I got a nice little wave of e-mails (in my deleted mail box this time) trying to reset my authenticator-passworded accounts.

Oh, and the strange thing? I had created a trial account so long ago that I don't even REMEMBER it, and certainly haven't logged into it for ages... it's still a trial account (expired)... and they tried to password reset that one... Strange, huh? Means they likely looked in my World of Warcraft\WTF\InsertAccountNameHere folders.

[Gadzooks]

As a scammer/hacker myself, I know that the autenticator will NEVER be hacked, but it's a god send to hackers out there, have a few of those babys laying around and get the accname/pw for a account on like markeedragon, the tie the baby to the account and BAM, email addres, cdkey, secret question, all becomes redundant. So a tip is for everyone to tie on of those to your account and never fear being hacked again!

As someone who doesn't "hack" and scam, and as someone who's seen people effected by sleazy people like you, I won't be responding or reading anything you have to say, your opinion is worthless, and I would ask the Mods here to ban you for admitting that you take part in stealing people's accounts or in-game items.

[Sajuuk]

Nilco turned me into a newt! He's a witch! Geet him!

[Basilikos]

As a scammer/hacker myself ...

Epic LOLZ incoming...

[Svpernova09]

Nilco turned me into a newt! He's a witch! Geet him!

Looks like you got better.

[Multibocks]

LOL he was already banned.

[TheBigBB]

I have trouble believing that brute force is a commonly used method to steal accounts from scratch. The number of username/password combinations is staggering even for a supercomputer, and the server would have to respond that a password was incorrect before you could rule any one of those of trillions of possibilities out. Further, you wouldn't guarantee that you even got an account worth anything once you got into one finally. I am sure that most accounts are hacked by someone who already knows some info about the account, like at least the account name, and then 99% I would imagine would be from keyloggers and people being dumb with their information.

I mean even the talk of bank information being compromised in here has me rolling my eyes. I used to work at a bank a year and a half ago, and the FDIC was trying to get people to use online banking because the vast majority of identity theft or check fraud was perpetrated through physical documents being stolen, and of the online identity hacking, almost all of it was through those fake spam e-mails where it asks you for your info, and uninformed people would send it. Hackers brute forcing bank accounts wasn't even mentioned.

[wizofid]

Bah.... authenticators are sold out at Blizzard's site.

[lille]

and of the online identity hacking, almost all of it was through those fake spam e-mails where it asks you for your info, and uninformed people would send it

Never ever show your email on wow related sites, if you check mmo-champ forums, all of those who makes posts about "Is this real or a scam?" wondering if they really are banned or if its a scam mail are showing their email address for everyone to see on the forums. Other than that all security software i use is Firefox with noscript, spybot and the windows firewall. Installed nod32 2 months ago to see if i had any viruses but nope, system was clean, even if i hadnt used antivirus software other than spybot for 2 years