Converted to Battle.net and got hacked

[Noids]

I logged in today fresh after reset only to have the horrible realisation that my toons were wearing gear that I did not log them out in. They were all separated and standing outside mailboxes. Sure enough Gold was reduced to silver, all gear except undisenchantable stuff was stripped, badges, honour and arena points were 0...

My quandry is that I switched to Battle.net on the weekend. Other than that I had hardly been near a computer let alone played them since then. They have all gotten the Mr Penguin pet and login screen has changed to battle.net so it was all obviously legit. I can't help but think that if I hadn't had to do this however, my accounts would still be secure, or at worst only 1 of them would have been compromised let alone all 5...

Have put in a GM ticket. Will look more into any other action that needs to be taken, but would aprpeciate any advice from others that have been hacked.

[Naysayer]

that sucks.


advice?


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[Noids]

Actually ordered one during my account conversion process, but living in Australia it is still in the mail. My main issue is that if I hadn't had to convert to goddam Battle.net it seems very unlikely that this would have happened...

[Naysayer]

Actually ordered one during my account conversion process, but living in Australia it is still in the mail. My main issue is that if I hadn't had to convert to goddam Battle.net it seems very unlikely that this would have happened...

hahaha that sucks. you're going to have your authenticator arrive in the mail while you account is banned for being hacked. Life can be a B sometimes. Good luck getting it back in order. There's been quite a few multiboxers here that have been hacked, so I'm sure you'll get some tips on who to contact and how to get it back fastest.

[Drizhal]

How do you corellate (sp) converting to B.Net with you being hacked?
Normally you get hacked when something like this happens.... Go to website A for free cookies! *Click* MmmCookies, Oh a trojan / keylogger mmmm...
Wake up next morning to naked toons

Make sure you scan you PC, because eventually you will just get rehacked (they aren't stupid they will wait for you to get the stuff back and relog in)

Happened to me just before I started boxing, what caused me to switch TO B.Net, it's more secure, if nothing else for the ability to change your security Q...

[Noids]

Yeah I know the classic hacking scenarios, but this is really not the case. The PC I use for boxing I ONLY use for WoW, it was bought and built purely for this.

The correlation between B.net and the hacking is that the only website that I have put my wow information into happened to be the b.net conversion page 3 days prior.

Now I don't necessarily think that had been compromised in any way. I do not run any other executables associated with WoW or otherwise on the computer, I have just finished a full scan (done weekly) which has come up clean so I really have nothing else to go on.

What I am 100% sure on however is that prior to converting to B.net I had 5 separate WoW accounts with different usernames and passwords. I now have 5 accounts linked to the one username and password and the username is an email address. In the past if I had an account compromised it would have bene 1 of 5 only rather than all 5 as in this case. So whether the conversion was the cause or not (and it is only the fact that the conversion had occurred so recently to the compromise) it definitely increased the vulnerability of the accounts.

[Noids]

How do you corellate (sp) converting to B.Net with you being hacked?
Normally you get hacked when something like this happens.... Go to website A for free cookies! *Click* MmmCookies, Oh a trojan / keylogger mmmm...
Wake up next morning to naked toons

Make sure you scan you PC, because eventually you will just get rehacked (they aren't stupid they will wait for you to get the stuff back and relog in)

Happened to me just before I started boxing, what caused me to switch TO B.Net, it's more secure, if nothing else for the ability to change your security Q...

Not sure how having one single username and password for ALL of your accounts is necessarily more secure though...

[Noids]

Actually ordered one during my account conversion process, but living in Australia it is still in the mail. My main issue is that if I hadn't had to convert to goddam Battle.net it seems very unlikely that this would have happened...

Does that mean this needs to be posted again? :P

[jettzypher]

purely coincedence... theres not alot of advice to give. get those tickets in to get your stuffs back, and hope that authenticator gets there quickly. find some aintvirus/malware protection to keep other infections from ruining your pc.im sure you were careful enough with the sites you happened to visit, but people can and do put keyloggers in just about any ad. the chances of getting one for wow without visitin wow sites is extremely low, it is possible.

[Khatovar]

but people can and do put keyloggers in just about any ad. the chances of getting one for wow without visitin wow sites is extremely low, it is possible.

Those two sentences are contradictory. Keylogging MMO accounts, not just WoW, is business, not entertainment. These keyloggers aren't coming from some jerk in your English class looking to watch you have a nerdrage event. They are coming from companies that make money off of selling gold from MMOs, fake or stolen credit cards, money from bank accounts, ebaying crap purchased via compromised bank accounts. To them, there's no difference between a WoW account and a Bank of America account. The people using your WoW account are probably no more than 3 cubicles away from the guys selling your aunt's credit card numbers.