So many of you swear by your authenticators (even though there was that whole authenticator hack drama not to long ago).
So I commended blizzard for the idea of this device. It has no doubt saved many from destruction. However one of the aspects I don't think Blizzard really ever considered as a problem, is one that many of us have witnessed happen. Those damnable gold farming bastards who steal accounts and stick authenticators onto them.
What I find most amusing though, is where do these authenticators get shipped to ? Wouldn't that be some kind of way to trace the malicious bastards behind these attacks ?
The reason I bring this up, is because as I am sure you have guessed. My battlenet account was hacked. I have not had a virus or trojan since the great blasterworm virus of 2003(?). The only thing I have ever had hacked was my paypal account around 2003 or 2004, when I was fool hardy to think I was fine with a 12345678 password.
I still have no idea how my battlenet was hacked in the first place. I still have no virus or trojans or spyware. I have no out of the normal process running on my computer. Everything is typical windows shit or ati. The only thing out of the ordinary was when I logged onto the Remote AH beta. Oddly enough, the next day when I logged back on remote AH to see my auctions that sold, my gold suddenly dropped from 1700 on the character to 0. I just brushed this off as a bug of some kind with the RAH beta. Perhaps I was mistaken.
Anyways, I am sitting here, laughing at my accounts 72 hour suspension for gold selling. But my laughter stopped when I tried to log onto bnet to play Starcraft II.
I am curious to see what damage was done to my account though, and if the damage was singled out to just the alt char on the alt server.
So now I am wondering what I should do with this free time I have until I finally get through to blizzard. I could study for my finals, but that's no fun. I just want to rush Void Rays at people =(