Who here is in "No Authenticator Never been hacked club?"

[Deleted]

Had someone try to change my password once, that is about it.

Got an authenticator on my phone so i could get the pet.

[maxvdakker]

just see the obvious and you wont get hacked

[thundercles]

The sites and scams that are out there designed to get your account info range from obviously a scam to extremely clever.

You don't have to be particularly stupid, foolish, or ignorant to make a one-time mistake and compromise your account information.

Some of these sites are extremely sophisticated and sneaky, the designers knew that many people would be wary.

Anyone, and I mean ANYONE can potentially lose their account even with an Authenticator.

Blizz sells the devices BELOW COST to help their customers maintain security.

Even so, they can only do so much. They can't keep every user from ever doing anything that might risk their account info, so it's ridiculous to demand that they give you more account protection as "baseline" than they already do.

[Abandon]

ITT: I'm serious about account security...

...just not serious enough to pay 7 dollars.

How about 50 cent?

[Pantelija]

*sigh*

If an addon website like Curse gets hacked (again)
If you mouse over a flash banner which has one embedded
If you log in from any other computer, ever, because you have no idea what the hell protection (if any) they are using
If you let anyone else ever use your account
If you have the same password for your email address and your WoW account, and registered the email as your Battle.Net address. Then if you check your email from any other computer which happens to have a keylogger, bam.

I can keep going if you like?

If u let anyone use your account info ? is this a joke ?

Stupid people get hacked . Downloading addons from curse from some suspicious guy
is your fault

My friend got "hacked" over 10 times because he is opening emails from unknown people , clicking shiny adds , watching porn from unknown/not trusty sites etc etc

There is no safe from keyloggers , heck there even is virus designed as anti authenticator (first time u enter password u get error while he sends those info to hacker etc etc )

[GhostSkull]

Stop reporting to public forums that you don't have proper security. Is the reports of that poll public? In other words does it provide hackers with a list of victims?

[zenkai]

It's not Blizzards responsibility to protect you from yourself, they are not a government backed operation. Saying something like this is akin to saying something like "It's an airlines job to provide all their passengers with parachutes and mace, just in case."
This isn't to say I disagree with them providing Authenticators in the box, but then it becomes an issue of what box to provide one in. Simply sticking them in every WoW SCU is not practical from a business perspective.

I'd also not really consider it hacking in most cases, as they aren't really doing anything other than taking info that people are pretty much just handing over to them.

It actually saves the money, thats why it should be free, people who get hacked have to be fixed, they have to hire people to fix it, why do you think Auth are so cheap? I pay 15 dollars a month, the least they could do is throw in a $5 item

[rieuxor]

I never been hacked before. I played without an authenticator for a long time, and I've been playing since early 2005. (I can't remember when authenticator were made available actually).

But I got my authenticator during WOTLK not really for security originally, but because I got an iphone and the app was free, also I got a core hound puppy. I'm glad I have an authenticator and can't see the need to bash something that is only meant to give you extra security, and is some cases like mine can be attained for free.

[Verth]

We need to make a signature of this club. I realy wanna join.
Btw, if you're a noob, you're gonna get hacked all right. Authenticator or not, do anything of the above quoted by the OP and you've got yourself a nice vacation off the game till mother blizzard decided to help you, if she wants to that is.

Been playing since vanilia. Never had a problem with my account. Only gotten a 3 hour ban as a retard reported me because he mixed my name with a scammer's.

[Slazky]

I've been hacked once in TBC, and I've played since vanilla. I have an authenticator now, even though I use Firefox with NoScript and AdBlock (don't know if that will ever help me against viruses though, but it's pretty neat :P), and I scan every day with an antivirus program, Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware and Spybot. I don't even get scammails from "Blizzard" and I certainly don't use my email address + WoW password anywhere else than WoW. I think I may be paranoid.

Maybe it's because it took Blizzard two whole weeks to give me my gear back that makes me so paranoid?

Oh and btw, when I were hacked I had not bought any gold, not had I given my password to someone else and I didn't go on any shady sites either, so don't be too sure that your phat lewtz is safe. It can happen out of the blue.

[Nevor]

I don't have an authenticator, and I have never been hacked. And I've been playing since Vanilla.

Me too. Just not being a stupid kid actually works fine.

[Whitcher]

He asked how someone could possibly get hacked if they don't click on a link, and I gave a list of ways it could happen. I wasn't trying to put together a list of ways that your account security could be compromised that you have no way to prevent, just explaining that you can quite easily get a keylogger without clicking anything.

I was just throwing out some not-so-common sense as to how to avoid getting hacked by those means. Wasn't flinging poo or anything

[Lightfist]

It actually saves the money, thats why it should be free, people who get hacked have to be fixed, they have to hire people to fix it, why do you think Auth are so cheap? I pay 15 dollars a month, the least they could do is throw in a $5 item

The physical version cost as much as a god damn fast food meal.

[Pantelija]

Btw, if you're a noob, you're gonna get hacked all right. Authenticator or not, do anything of the above quoted by the OP and you've got yourself a nice vacation off the game till mother blizzard decided to help you, if she wants to that is.

^ my point

If u are stupid u will get "hacked" all the time no matter what but some people are too ignorant about this

[Whitcher]

It actually saves the money, thats why it should be free, people who get hacked have to be fixed, they have to hire people to fix it, why do you think Auth are so cheap? I pay 15 dollars a month, the least they could do is throw in a $5 item

$5 item for 10,000,000+ people. That's $50,000,000 chief.

[Finalwish]

I tried a phone auth for a day, man it got tedious so I took it off.

5 1/2 years and never been hacked. guess having a brain prevents it

[Deleted]

I don't have an authenticator, and I have never been hacked. And I've been playing since Vanilla.

This. Just be carefull with links you click and what not and you'll be fine.

[Abandon]

If u let anyone use your account info ? is this a joke ?

Yes, people do it. Friend asks to log in for a minute to craft something, ect. Or even if you log into your own account from their computer for a second to check something. It doesn't make a difference. It's not smart, but it still happens, and doesn't involve you clicking anything.
You originally said "How can someone get hacked if they don't click a link?", I am just answering your question.

Stupid people get hacked . Downloading addons from curse from some suspicious guy
is your fault

...erm...what? I honestly am not sure what you mean here. Curse is one of the largest websites for World of Warcraft addons. They also recently bought out this website, so you are on a "suspicious" website right now if you consider Curse to be "some suspicious guy".

My friend got "hacked" over 10 times because he is opening emails from unknown people , clicking shiny adds , watching porn from unknown/not trusty sites etc etc

There is no safe from keyloggers , heck there even is virus designed as anti authenticator (first time u enter password u get error while he sends those info to hacker etc etc )

Yes, you have heard of the Man-In-The-Middle programs. There have been what, five people with Authenticators who have gotten hacked because of them? So 5 people with Authenticators....versus every single other account that has ever gotten hacked, which didn't have one. There are lots of reasons not to want to use an Authenticator, but the fact that it is "only" 99% effective instead of 100% is the stupidest I have seen.

"I don't want to get my girlfriend pergnant. I should use some sort of birth control. Wait, condoms are only 97% effective!? That's almost completely useless, I'd better just pull out, I'm smart enough to know when, right?"

[Garots]

I don't have an authenticator, and I have never been hacked. And I've been playing since Vanilla.

/brofist.

Same here, it's because I don't go to dodgey porn sites! Only the subscription ones

[daLaxC]

I don't use an authenticator, and I never have been hacked. I don't know what all these schmocks do to get hacked.