Hacked on a dedicated client.

[Idaho Immortal]

I have a computer running wow, and nothing else.

I don't log in anywhere else. I don't have anything but vent installed with wow on my dedicated client.



But still, I logged in and all my shit was gone except for my tank gear (but my weapon was gone too). All my gold went with it too. Just you know, hackt.


Point being.


I got hacked. On a dedicated client. Blizzard error, possibly?

[Thundurr]

Did you have an authenticator?

Why be so careful, and not use an authenticator.

[xGLxAnubis]

I have a computer running wow, and nothing else.

I don't log in anywhere else. I don't have anything but vent installed with wow on my dedicated client.



But still, I logged in and all my shit was gone except for my tank gear (but my weapon was gone too). All my gold went with it too. Just you know, hackt.


Point being.


I got hacked. On a dedicated client. Blizzard error, possibly?

I won't say it's Blizz's error necessarily, why would it have been? I will however say this:

I was hacked today. It happened 3 hours after I logged off for bed. They didn't reset my WoW acocunt info, but they did make it impossible for me to access my email.

I scanned my computer and all my hard drives, everything came up clean. No spyware, adware, trojans: Nothing. I updated and scanned again, nothing. I downloaded another virus scanner... Nothing. I double checked the sites I visited to make sure I hadn't done something stupid: Nothing. Mmo-champion, wow-forums, guild website, hotmail. Nothing out of the ordinary, no suspiciously looking fake links visited, let alone me putting my account information into. (In fact, The only time I've used my WoW account information in the last few days is for WoW itself, for the forums and stuff I have it entered automatically, no typing).

Needless to say, I was baffled. I've gotten everything back (Or in the process of) but I would certainly agree that recently quite a few people being hacked have claimed stories similar to mine and yours, where there isn't really a foreseeable way we could have been hacked, but we were.

Who knows?

[Kpoof]

Dis some scary crap!

I usually play at a huge internet cafe downtown every day to do daily dungeons and so on, and I honestly have never been hacked.

The hackers seem to enjoy choosing their targets, you sure you haven't pissed anyone off lately?

[Nwim]

Do you have any accounts on other sites with the same password as your WoW account?

[Rycul]

This is quite extraordinary. I myself have just recovered from being hacked as well and I too am always extremely careful when dealing with anything WoW-related. I still don't know how I got hacked (nothing malicious on my PC, dont use auto-fill-in functions from browsers since that means my password is stored somewhere on my harddrive, thus possible accesible to other software besides the browser. E-mails I always check, re-check and check again before I open them and I never click on links in those mails. My passwords are never the same. I'm not saying the possibility of a keylogger on my PC is as small as is the case with your PC, but still!

But hey, I did get some free game time and a core-hound pup out of this; The hackers put an authenticator on my account which was removed by Blizzard. I got to keep the core-hound pup and the game time that was left over from the hacker

[Vajjo]

I'd say that it was one of your friends that knew your password "hacked" you.

[Idaho Immortal]

Do you have any accounts on other sites with the same password as your WoW account?

Not anymore.

Funny story. While I logged to change my password and buy an authenticator, they got back on my account... And didn't close the gm ticket reporting it.

[pomop]

I won't say it's Blizz's error necessarily, why would it have been? I will however say this:

I was hacked today. It happened 3 hours after I logged off for bed. They didn't reset my WoW acocunt info, but they did make it impossible for me to access my email.

I scanned my computer and all my hard drives, everything came up clean. No spyware, adware, trojans: Nothing. I updated and scanned again, nothing. I downloaded another virus scanner... Nothing. I double checked the sites I visited to make sure I hadn't done something stupid: Nothing. Mmo-champion, wow-forums, guild website, hotmail. Nothing out of the ordinary, no suspiciously looking fake links visited, let alone me putting my account information into. (In fact, The only time I've used my WoW account information in the last few days is for WoW itself, for the forums and stuff I have it entered automatically, no typing).

Needless to say, I was baffled. I've gotten everything back (Or in the process of) but I would certainly agree that recently quite a few people being hacked have claimed stories similar to mine and yours, where there isn't really a foreseeable way we could have been hacked, but we were.

Who knows?

Exactly. And it really pisses me off when idiots who know nothing think that anybody who gets hacked bought gold or power leveling.

on topicish - Never use the same password for wow as anything else. Ever. Especially guild websites. Blizzard had a terrible idea to use email names as account names, as many players just used the same password figuring that the account name will always be different from the email. Now, it is easier to hack accounts because of this. (Not easy, but easier than with random names.) It is fairly easy to get emails nowadays as a decent hacker, and a person who manages a guild website can /wtfpwn a couple members in the guild because they used the same password for wow and the forums.

If MMO-champion were to be somehow hacked, I have no doubt that a few hundred to a thousand people will be hacked because they have the same account password. Whereas with the account name, it would be a bit harder to hack.

Even just browsing mmo champ you can click on a persons profile and view their email if they choose to show it. That right there is 50% of the effort, the rest can be done by RNG. :S

[Deleted]

Well "not running anything besides wow and vent" eliminates some of the possible attack vectors, but you still have an operating system and its services running (windows installs quite a few of them).

So even if you don't surf to p0rn sites with that machine it still somewhat vulnerable, depending on how it is connected to the internet and other systems in its network it may be even *very* vulnerable.

And as others have pointed out if you reused your password elsewhere that's another potential threat source especially without authenticator.
On that note: Posting on the official Blizzard forum from a compromised machine will give away user name and password

[freakshow]

I suspect a simple explanation.
Most likely except WoW dedicated PC you have others, Pc for normal use, family PC etc.
Most likely they are all connected in Local network.
And here comes mistake - you grant access to your WoW dedicated PC.
1 Pc in the network becomes infected )) Result ==> All PCs are infected.
Try checking access rights and firewall settings (must be switched on !! ).

[Phattopia]

do you think its possible there are people inside blizzard selling account information off to these gold selling account hacking losers?

[Deleted]

If MMO-champion were to be somehow hacked, I have no doubt that a few hundred to a thousand people will be hacked because they have the same account password. Whereas with the account name, it would be a bit harder to hack.

Even just browsing mmo champ you can click on a persons profile and view their email if they choose to show it. That right there is 50% of the effort, the rest can be done by RNG. :S

MMO-Champion has not been hacked. If someone were to "hack" MMO-Champion somehow, they would not be able to get anyones passwords. Everything is hashed, it's entirely one way. And your point about emails, nobody can see anyone elses emails even if set to allow in the profile.



Idaho Immortal, you say you only log into WoW on that one computer. But do you ever log into battlenet, WoW forums, or any other blizzard services on another computer?

[arcath]

Do you have any accounts on other sites with the same password as your WoW account?

Not anymore.

Funny story. While I logged to change my password and buy an authenticator, they got back on my account... And didn't close the gm ticket reporting it.

This is what happened. A lot of times old forum/site passwords were stored in plain text and/or that site/forum was hacked.

Either way your email login/password from that older site was found and they decided to try it out on WoW.

You don't have to have a virus on your computer to get your account hacked.

[Idaho Immortal]

MMO-Champion has not been hacked. If someone were to "hack" MMO-Champion somehow, they would not be able to get anyones passwords. Everything is hashed, it's entirely one way. And your point about emails, nobody can see anyone elses emails even if set to allow in the profile.



Idaho Immortal, you say you only log into WoW on that one computer. But do you ever log into battlenet, WoW forums, or any other blizzard services on another computer?

You have a good point. I'll probably start paying my bill from my desktop and not the computer I download porn on.