WoW accounts getting hacked

[Tonuss]

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.

The particular machine in question was running vista's UAC, Antivirus, and behind a firewall. However, it doesn't really surprise me that people can still get in. Given enough determination, people can find their way into anything.

It could be what I mentioned earlier, that an advertisement that was pushed from another site installed the virus/spyware/trojan. It's a pain to try and keep up with all of the possible vulnerabilities, not just in Adobe Flash or Javascript, but in the browsers themselves. Internet Explorer and Firefox get patched and updated pretty often, usually to shut down security holes. And I think that nowadays, the easiest way to get into your machine is via content that is being pushed to a site that you're visiting. Some sites will pull in data from more than a dozen additional sites! Each of those sites is a potential access point for malware, and your browser doesn't bother telling you that when you visit one site, you are also "visiting" many others.

I browse with Firefox, using both NoScript and AdBlock, and I try to be as aggressive and suspicious as I can with either of them. I have ZoneAlarm installed as well, which is a pretty good firewall and has the ability to block viruses and spyware, but more importantly it will alert me anytime a new program tries to access the internet from within my system. And it uses a checksum-based system, so if a virus tries to replace a legitimate file and assume its filename, that won't work.

[Biz]

I've been playing since 05' and have never been hacked. I have always had multiple accounts and really can't believe I've dodged the bullet for so long. Firefox ftw I guess.

[beyond-tec]

my main account got hacked in the past.

I was posting on a thread on the official WoW Forums and was surfing on other sites when an advertisement which was enbedded into a page crashed my firefox browser.

Due to a security bug the popup was able to grab my account name and my password which I've entered some minutes ago when I logged into the wow forums.

my account got hacked later that night, everything was sold and my chars got deleted.

After about 2 Weeks (sending the key and your personal data to blizzard etc..) I've recieved a mail that I shall contact a GM ingame to restore my chars and my stuff.
The GM restored my lvl 70 chars and put their stuff in the mailbox (armor, weapons ....)

:love: Blizzard GMs :love:


Now I've got the RSA security token. One token for all accounts. I start the wow sessions, activate keyclone and broadcast the current RSA Token Passwort to all sessions at once.

Excellent stuff