Has anyone noticed this in their WoW Account?

[MoanaLisa]

It's not all that new. It went live at the end of November.

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/3657435851

Those of you who wish to disable this feature can do so by opting out of the bypass on your Battle.net account management page. If you opt out of the by-pass, you will be prompted by Battle.net for an authentication code each time you log in.

It says Starcraft II but was posted in the WoW forums. Anyway that's when it happened.

[Syfy]

I own a mac (nobody writes keylogging spyware for macs :P)

Wrong, they are indeed spywares of all sorts for MAC's, even tho it's the biggest piece of crap out there people still write spywares/viruses for it, hope one day some of them will just kill it and poof it was gone, then we can have a crap free pc world (not that it deserves to fall under a pc)

[Deleted]

Its about time, its pretty sad I can pull out my SSD in a caddy tray, drive to someone's house and shove it an another computer* and launch wow from it with nary a complaint. After 2 or 3 logins it finally asks for the authenticator...sorry but by then if its not you your account has been stripped naked.

The following apply to my firsthand experience using it at a relative's place:
*In another state on another slash /8 (for the non-technical: its a different ISP with a vastly different IP, think area codes)
*Significantly different windows configuration
*Nvidia vs ATI graphics
*Intel vs AMD (yeah yeah its all x86 but cpuid is a single simple instruction)

And none of that flags their supposed "algorithm" the first time? Fire that guy.

Doubt that very much since every time I format my machine it asks me for my authenticator regardless.
now if it does it for a machine with the exact same hardware, bios and OS configuratioin (since I run it off a standalone install) then it will do it when you move the drive from one location to another.

[loki504]

I own a mac (nobody writes keylogging spyware for macs :P)

I don't download mac addons

I don't buy gold

I don't use any passwords that are the same as my WoW account

I don't enter or accept any funky downloads...

I don't visit any questionable websites

I don't click on any web adds or pop-ups...

I'm so damn secure I don't even get spam emails.

...and I got hacked.

Trust me, doesn't matter what "precautions" you take... you CAN get hacked.

Do yourself a favor and get an authenticator.

security has noting to do with doddy email.
using your email for noting(only to get a account) and don't share it on the internet you will not get doddy email. but it has noting to do with your own security.

[Amtah]

I rather have the enter my Authenticator code everytime instead of one time becuase at LEAST i wont get hacked, and unlike last time where i got hacked within 15hrs apart!

Fucking hackers faked my ID twice and stripped my account twice, Blizzard was completly clueless.

Porn will do that to you

[Palisis]

Its about time, its pretty sad I can pull out my SSD in a caddy tray, drive to someone's house and shove it an another computer* and launch wow from it with nary a complaint. After 2 or 3 logins it finally asks for the authenticator...sorry but by then if its not you your account has been stripped naked.

The following apply to my firsthand experience using it at a relative's place:
*In another state on another slash /8 (for the non-technical: its a different ISP with a vastly different IP, think area codes)
*Significantly different windows configuration
*Nvidia vs ATI graphics
*Intel vs AMD (yeah yeah its all x86 but cpuid is a single simple instruction)

And none of that flags their supposed "algorithm" the first time? Fire that guy.

About time? They implemented this quite some time ago.

[Kharalla]

I got hacked twice in a weeks period, 2nd time I discovered it an hour before my authenticator arrived *laugh* And I didn't get hacked from visiting dodgy websites, or clicking links I shouldn't. I got hacked using the Curse client to update DBM. It was the only thing I had downloaded in the past month and I had just run a keylogger and did a full virus scan the week before. First time, they stripped all my toons, deleted some of them and moved others to new servers and stripped 3 guild banks (that was the part that mortified me the worst) Luckily Blizzard was quick and had everything restored in 24 hours. Hubby and I ordered our Authenticators that day. 3 days later I got hacked again. An hour later my authenticator arrived. I went the full hog that time, changed login to a new email, changed password, virus scanned twice and used Ad-aware 3 times just to make sure *laugh* Had long since gotten rid of the Curse Client. Haven't had a problem since.

Occasionally I log in on my husbands computer or I log him in on mine and it always asks for our authenticator's when I do.

[alacast]

I own a mac (nobody writes keylogging spyware for macs :P)

I don't download mac addons

I don't buy gold

I don't use any passwords that are the same as my WoW account

I don't enter or accept any funky downloads...

I don't visit any questionable websites

I don't click on any web adds or pop-ups...

I'm so damn secure I don't even get spam emails.

...and I got hacked.

Trust me, doesn't matter what "precautions" you take... you CAN get hacked.

Do yourself a favor and get an authenticator.

Same exact situation happened to me, I was completely floored. Account was not even active at the time. The only thing I could think of was a brute force, and that is downright amazing, considering the pass I had for the account had no words, special chars, caps and lower case, etc.

[brirrspliff]

yes, people complained that you didn't have to enter your authenticator every time (odd thing i know) so blizzard gave you the option.

hahaha. precious.

[Mad_Murdock]

Same exact situation happened to me, I was completely floored. Account was not even active at the time. The only thing I could think of was a brute force, and that is downright amazing, considering the pass I had for the account had no words, special chars, caps and lower case, etc.

But how often do you rotate your passwords ? Of the people I knew that were comprimised, they all had used the same passwords for years. Even the guys who had inactive accounts. I myself change passwords every 2-3 months or anytime I feel frisky

[MoanaLisa]

But how often do you rotate your passwords ? Of the people I knew that were comprimised, they all had used the same passwords for years. Even the guys who had inactive accounts. I myself change passwords every 2-3 months or anytime I feel frisky

My battlenet password is changed about every 30 days. Usually the first of the month. I have an authenticator. I've never been hacked.

[Mad_Murdock]

My battlenet password is changed about every 30 days. Usually the first of the month. I have an authenticator. I've never been hacked.

You don't count, you have an Authenticator :P

[Xurn]

I have been hacked twice in my long history of playing wow. Once by watching a video on a well known raiding guilds website during vanilla wow that took advantage of a media player security hole to install a keylogger. The second time it was from logging into my account on a computer on a university campus. Seems all of their traffic is routed through very few external ip's and logging in from one system and using my authenticator allowed them to log in from somewhere else on the schools network. So if you only log in from your home pc