new hack involving un-merged (bnet) accounts

[Overpowerdin]

Before the "Blizz can't be hacked" band wagon jumps on board. I would like to throw this out there.

There are a large number of accounts (with and without authenticators) that are canceled/frozen that are being enabled and used by gold farmers. They are using these account to pillage your belongings for gold, and if you have 80s, they are farming them out or transferring the toons to sell. They use stolen credit card info and game cards to reactivate the account. The email address that was tied to your account may not be hacked, but it will be on their list and you may or may not start getting spam that is identical to blizz's own account info emails that a person normally can get, and the only way to tell them apart is to trace the IPs of the email servers the message came through.

Blizzard will tell you (along with the majority of users in the mob mentality that believe blizzard is the only company in the world that can't be hacked) that your account was compromised and its all your fault, you must have logged into a Trojan infected PC with your account info at some point in your life. I honestly believe after several weeks of research that there are one of two things going on here.

1. Someone (or a group) in Blizz's customer service department is compromising the accounts or selling the info.

2. Blizz's authentication servers have been compromised.

I really think option one is what is happening. A lot of the accounts I have looked into have been in canceled or frozen status or recently canceled with game time still left active. Only someone with access to customer service could know this info, a hacker would have to guess your security answer after brute forcing your password. Someone at customer service can also easily change your password as well.