Hacked account advice

[Seldum]

After reading a couple of these kind of threads, I got myself an authenticator. It's a bit annoying that you have to enter the 6 digit code on each wow client and have to wait a bit in between the generation of the 6 digit code, but its nothing compared to get your stuff deleted....

I hope you get your stuff back. I would love to kick the people who hack wow accounts in the nuts.

[Fef]

After reading a couple of these kind of threads, I got myself an authenticator. It's a bit annoying that you have to enter the 6 digit code on each wow client and have to wait a bit in between the generation of the 6 digit code, but its nothing compared to get your stuff deleted....

Indeed.

Stupidely, I was stubborn enough to not get an authenticator only after I had one of my accounts hacked. You know, "I never bought or sold gold, I do only WoW and a bit of web (not even mail) on that machine, nobody but me knows my password, blah blah ...", so I have nothing to fear.

I got everything restored within a couple of days. Blizzard seems to be very good at that.

[zenga]

The irony is that the authenticator is only available from the blizzard store. There doesn't seem to be any real life shop where they sell it. Meaning I'm forced to give out my credit card information in order to have better security.

Keeping my private info private & never buying something online with my plastic is my first line of defence against hackers though.

[Ñightsham]

The irony is that the authenticator is only available from the blizzard store. There doesn't seem to be any real life shop where they sell it. Meaning I'm forced to give out my credit card information in order to have better security.

Keeping my private info private & never buying something online with my plastic is my first line of defence against hackers though.

iTunes has it available for free (iPhone or iTouch only), I placed it on the iTouch and it works great. It's available for a few other mobile devices HERE it's only .99 cents

[zenga]

iTunes has it available for free (iPhone or iTouch only), I placed it on the iTouch and it works great. It's available for a few other mobile devices HERE it's only .99 cents

Thanks, but it seems my phone ain't supported. Figured as much as my phone is gonna be worth a lot of money in a few years, just like all antique. Besides answering an occasional call I never use it. I can even step on it when I'm drink. It never lets me down.

Must admit that the phone app is a very nice tool though.

Would prefer to just go to the store and buy it. Maybe in the future. Or i'll just have to use my plastic :/

[heyaz]

It's not really that easy to have a keylogger end up on your machine. Either you are very unlucky or clicked something you shouldn't have.

A lot of people just willingly give up their password by signing up on a website/blog/forums. This trick has been around for over a decade. You sign up on their site using your usual email and password, and trust the site owner to not use it. Much more common than keyloggers.

[thinus]

It's not really that easy to have a keylogger end up on your machine. Either you are very unlucky or clicked something you shouldn't have.

A lot of people just willingly give up their password by signing up on a website/blog/forums. This trick has been around for over a decade. You sign up on their site using your usual email and password, and trust the site owner to not use it. Much more common than keyloggers.

Which is why you should have a trash password for forums, fan sites, etc and separate passwords for things you care about like banking, email, paypal, wow accounts, etc. This is basic internet security 101.

[Khatovar]

Thanks, but it seems my phone ain't supported. Figured as much as my phone is gonna be worth a lot of money in a few years, just like all antique. Besides answering an occasional call I never use it. I can even step on it when I'm drink. It never lets me down.

Must admit that the phone app is a very nice tool though.

Would prefer to just go to the store and buy it. Maybe in the future. Or i'll just have to use my plastic :/

You can go to places like Walmart or a Check Cashing Store and get a prepaid credit card and use that to purchase an authenticator if you don't want to use real plastic.

[Ualaa]

Or if you have Paypal, you can use your credit card through them, and not have the number revealed to the store you are sending your payment to.

[ericforsell]

As for email, gmail and paid yahooo mail both allow you to work on a secure connection, https, so your info will not be out in the open or in clear text. Gmail is nice in that you can switch to secure mode forever if you want. This coupled with an authenticator should do the trick, at least I hope. Using CC on sites is not a big deal, they are required to be on a secure encrypted connection with certificates to authenticate the connection.