Quote Originally Posted by Iceorbz View Post
Makes you wonder how profitable this business is... if they really go to all these great lengths.
These aren't great lengths in any way, shape, or form. Compromising systems is pretty trivial to do, as it's pretty much an automated system once the basic tools have been developed. It costs virtually nothing, when spread out over thousands (or possibly tens or hundreds of thousands) of accounts, to compromise an account, so any money made from it is going to be profit. Figure every 1k gold on an account is going to turn into about 5-7 USD, and any account is going to have at least that much on it by this point.

Going to great lengths would be doing things like calling people by phone, claiming to be Blizzard employees and trying to social engineer account info.

I do admit that I'm somewhat perplexed why a security expert wouldn't have an authenticator on their account in the first place... It costs under 6 bucks (or is free if you put it on your phone) and anyone who works in the industry would surely find that a trivial expense and the time they need to spend rectifying it with Blizzard to be rather more valuable. I am by no possible stretch of the imagination an expert, but this seems to me to be common sense.