WOW Account attempted hijack

[Lazybones]

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.

[Melbosa]

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 .  That is what happened to two guys here in the office whom weren't active players.

[Mr. Analog]

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.

[Lazybones]

Almost tempted to get the battle.net authenticator app.

[Melbosa]

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 .