So I got hacked...my own fault but damn what a pita

[Gadzooks]

They launder the cash but the problem is, as many have said people are incredibly dense. They do not report things for multiple days/weeks, or they rarely play and don't report it. They were doing something against the rules so they don't report it for fear of being banned. So out of every lets say 50 accounts 10 people don't report it due to multiple reasons. They still have hijacked 10, in my case they charged my CC to xfer my 80 DK and unload all the crap (Also got a name change....why i ono...)

But anyways none got deleted, just fast and efficient ransacking. I think as others have said deleted toons are a proverbial twist of the knife...Toons 60+ Are never actually deleted off their servers (blizzards) even if you deactive your account (though I would be very hard pressed to test their claim). Anything under 60 will EVENTUALLY disappear but takes months.

But I am stalling converting the rest of my accounts into a BNet, I plan to use 2 bnets...why...I dono just cause 5 is to many and 1 seems to few but there is a silver lining to the Bnet, With a keylogger before hackers owned you completely once they got your pw and you retrieved it with the secret question, because it is impossible to change it, even through blizzard customer support. SO, if you ever do get hacked, you know you can actually change that secret question to help lock them out. Somewhat comforting....somewhat


Also I received this morning an email from blizzard report thanking me for submitting my ticket however....my email was changed away from my hotmail emai labout 5 months ago...it looked completely legit too

Name and server changing was a favorite thing of snot nosed US players, so they could sell the character - Bnet has pretty much put that market in the toilet, thank god.

If you have ANY plans to move characters around your accounts, use one Bnet. It's fine, I use one for all of mine. It will be a lot easier with one.

[Dramoth]

I am thinking of creating a 6th .eu account and moving all my important toons to that and having that under a different b.net account...

However, I like having all my toons on my current account setup as it makes it nice and easy to boost other toons easily.

[Iceorbz]

I wish that they would just allow authenticator for specific functions: ie anything that charges money to the cards.

Its annoying for me to login for the amount of times I open and close things I dunno.

[zaren]

Hey, I'm brand new to this whole multiboxing thing, but I already ordered a authenticator myself!!!

I only have 3 accounts (so far) but I would go NUTS if I was compromised! You guys got me to spend 6.50 american for a very good cause in my book!

Battle on!

[Marious]

There is the choice of the mobile app authenticator they sell for a lot of phones so you do not have to get a physical one at all.

[Ualaa]

I've now got 5 physical authenticators.

At the moment, I can use one to simultaneously access each of my 5 B.Net accounts.

If you can always use one to access all 5, then its 4 x 6 and change wasted, which isn't much.

If they change it so one authenticator can only do one code then its done (instead of one per B.Net account), then I'd need to use all five, but that's still a lot faster then a 30 second wait between accounts logging in, within the same B.Net account.

[thinus]

There is the choice of the mobile app authenticator they sell for a lot of phones so you do not have to get a physical one at all.

The iphone authenticator app is free. I am just slightly worried about the phone breaking or being stolen, how do you get back into your accounts?

[Ughmahedhurtz]

The iphone authenticator app is free. I am just slightly worried about the phone breaking or being stolen, how do you get back into your accounts?

It's easy but tedious. You have to basically prove to them you're the account owner. Documents like driver's license, etc.

[Flekkie]

Wow, if my e-mail was hacked I would be worried about more than just my WoW accounts!

[Zamok]

Status update

6 accounts fully restored including the un-deleting of the raid toons. Whoot I wont miss this weekends raids.