Quote Originally Posted by Monk3yv View Post
I too had an account compromised. the hacker had emptied my guild bank because I had access to all tabs, vendored all items except my gear (this I found rather odd because he kept the gear for my multiple specs).

I purchased an authenticator after this and I didnt even change the password. The next day I took the authenticator off of my account and waited to see if the account would be compromised again. (I am crazy like that) Well it never happened.

Me being the paranoid person that I am immediatly thought, "Inside job!" What's stopping a company from doing shadey dealings, such as faking a hacked account just to make you buy an authenticator, once they see you have one, they go to the next person. All items were restored of course.

Overview:

What does blizzard have to gain from compromised accounts? Sales in authenticators.

They have the information needed, the power, and a motive. And who is to say someone in the coorporate ladder couldnt be selling your account information to ammatures to "do the deed". Thus pushing you to purchase their new safety feature.

Highly unlikely, but hey it would be pretty hard to "catch" if everyone is so ready to accept that it could never happen. Maybe I shouldn't watch The Manchurian Candidate when drunk haha!

Quite a conspiracy theory lol. I think the hackers are doing a fine job by themselves to get players to use authenticators lol. I think if blizz wanted to sell authenticators they could just add it as a go forward requirement.

I believe it is simply a case that there is A LOT of money being made hacking accounts and selling gold, as I stated in my hack thread, the GM I dealt with that finally resolved most of my issues said that "there are between 2 - 3k accounts per day being compromised in the US and Australica alone" , now that is a serious amount of gold. The peon hacker is most likely being paid a few dollars a week and their bosses are making the big money, THIS IS BIG BUSINESS.