I'm glad you got your items back Brooke . I remember some months back when Cali and I still played WoW, that our guild site kept getting hacked with little hidden programs and key-logging viruses. It kept Cali busy for a good while, she traced it back to a WoW item seller/paid-to-level service that I think was based in China.

It's crazy what some people will do to get at your in-game items, scarier still that so much money can be made from something that doesn't technically exist.

Holy shiz.

They cracked the padlock on the hometeams locker.

Nobodys jocks are safe.

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Originally posted by Mischief_FD:
I almost started crying when she told me this morning

Tears of joy that you might get your friend back. M I RITE?

Getting your accout hacked sucks. The guild leader of the top guild in GW got his account hacked and his guild deleted... luckily when they remade the guild they still had their gold cape.

Good thing you got your account back

oh no

Tracking every item back to who had what at any point would be an immense amount of data. They would do it, if they were responsible and held accountable for that. However they are not, and thus, it's substantially cheaper to tell users to be careful with their accounts.

A plausible hypothesis on how these are accomplished, is by hacking into various forums (possibly related to WoW) which have very lax security, obtaining user information, running scripts to see if any of those accounts are WoW accounts.. etc etc.

I've also read about trojans and the like coming along with various game mods, even from reputable sites. Remember, if it's all scripted, the people looking for the info just have to wait. The computer does the work for them.

A cheap option is the Blizzard Authenticator, too bad it is currently sold out. Click here for further details.

Aside from what Blizzard says, I have yet to see the reliability of the devices, and the practical application of them.