Blizzard detected a virus, de-activated all my accounts.. how?

[Heavyd]

There was a story a couple of days ago about 44mm game accounts, including some number of warcraft accounts, that were found on a chinese server. Maybe it had something to do with that?

http://news.techworld.com/security/3...tolen/?olo=rss

If you don't want to click the link you can google 'stolen warcraft accounts' and it'll be the top couple of stories.

[Fat Tire]

This is unfortunate, however there is a silver(gold) lining.

I made out like a bandit when my accounts go hacked @6 months ago - pre authenicator. At the time I had about 160k gold and just a ton of other items, mostly enchanting,jewelcrafting mats on bank mules etc. These hackers pretty much cleaned me out and transfered alot of my characters to different servers.

I went thru the procedure and it took about 12 days to get my stuff back and when I got it all back I was blown away. I got around double my gold back and got about 3 times in mats back. My warrior had thunderfury from back in the day and when I logged him on he had his original equipped and another in his bags.