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General => Game Chat => Topic started by: Lazybones on January 12, 2011, 10:08:37 AM

Title: WOW Account attempted hijack
Post by: Lazybones on January 12, 2011, 10:08:37 AM
Looks like someone attempted to hijack my old wow account, received a REAL password reset mail from blizzard last night.. Updated my account by going directly to the site and also merged it into a battle.net account even though I don't play anymore.

Thought I would mention this since I get A LOT of fake phishing emails that look just like the official ones, however this one was real (checked the headers).

Just a heads up for anyone else with a old WOW account.
Title: Re: WOW Account attempted hijack
Post by: Melbosa on January 12, 2011, 11:47:34 AM
I got hacked December 31st, 2010.  And I am actively playing again.  For me they hacked my battle.net account (which is used for all Blizz games now) and my hotmail account that was linked to that account.  I eventually got it all sorted out, by the Jan 02, 2011.

I actually got banned from WoW twice for 3 hours a piece.  All official emails from Blizz, all legit hacking.  Was funny, would be playing with my Hotmail open on a second monitor, and I would see a flood of password reset notices and then all of a sudden "Disconnected from Server".  Try to relog and got your account is banned.  Then a minute later I would get a Banned email from Blizzard Entertainment.

I have also heard if you call Blizz and complain that your account is being hacked, they will give you a free month to play again :D.  That is what happened to two guys here in the office whom weren't active players.
Title: Re: WOW Account attempted hijack
Post by: Mr. Analog on January 12, 2011, 12:00:56 PM
Battle.net seems to be under constant assault, also deviantArt is under attack at the moment, a lot of peoples accounts getting hacked thanks to a XSS fault.
Title: Re: WOW Account attempted hijack
Post by: Lazybones on January 13, 2011, 08:26:27 AM
Almost tempted to get the battle.net authenticator app.
Title: Re: WOW Account attempted hijack
Post by: Melbosa on January 13, 2011, 09:18:56 AM
I got one because of my hack. I couldn't get the mobile phone app so I got the RSA instead. With the RSA, very unlikely it will ever happen again... and Diablo III comes out this year :P.