It all depends on who steals the account. Most keyloggers are from China or Indonesia, it seems, while the e-mail phishers are US based players (and Canada, they think they're immune from prosecution).

I could see the US thieves deleting characters, because if you go to sites where they hang out, they're all 13-18 year old anti-social snots.

The Chinese thieves are efficient. It's just a job to them. They tend to keep the high level toons to run bots in Wintergrasp, but I could see them deleting characters because the established characters would be too noticable to guildies and friends?

Anyway, sorry to hear you got hacked. This is the number one reason I have not installed WoW on my Windows Bootcamp yet, because I need to sit down and work out the best security plan I can. I have the WoW Authenticator on my iPhone, too, but after the last round of screwups, I'm holding off on that too.