S U N risr
7/21/2011 12:44:00 PM
On 7/21/2011 8:01 AM, EvanMac wrote:
> here's the story:
>
> tonight I had insomnia, so around 5:00 a.m. I logged in, after
> installing the wowhead prog+addon to send profiles to their site, I
> played with my mage a litlle, then I went to bed around 5:30 a.m.
>
> Today's morning at 11:00 a.m. (around) I was in my bike repair shop and,
> because there was no customers, I decided to do a round at AH with my
> banker...
>
> First strange thing: upon logging in, at char select screen I saw that
> my toon were in a strange order, but, oh boy!, I slept a few hours
> tonight, maybe I did something while sleeping?
>
> Second strange thing: the banker wasn't mounted and far away from
> silvermoon's AH, boh!, surely I sleepwalked around tonight while playing
> wow...
>
> 3rd s.t. (strange thing): I was unable to post auction because I was too
> low in money. WHAT!? I have around 4k gold here... no! a look at my
> backpack and I discovered that I... MISS ALL MONEY!!!
>
> oh god, are there my auctions still there? yes
> the cracker stolen something from guild bank? yes
>
> ok, I was hacked between 5:30 a.m. and 11:00, further investigation lead
> me around 9:00 a.m. as steal time. I immediately opened a ticket about
> the thing, then logged out with banker to check other toon... that I
> didn't see before this discovery
>
> MY HIGH LVL CHAR WAS ALL NAKED!!!! in the char select screen... the
> huntress, the shaman, the rogue, the... ALL!!!!!!
>
> so I logged in with my huntress just to run around in dalaran totally
> naked, waiting for a ticket response
>
> interlude: beetwen the awful discovery I downloaded and set up the
> authenticator on my android device
>
> end of the story: after around 45 min wait, emptying the banker's guild
> tabs to sell all and disband that useless guild, someone from the
> blizzard contacted me, we had a short conversation and he mailed to all
> char all stolen suff and money
>
> GREAT BLIZZARD!!! many thanks to you :D
Nice that you got your stuff back so fast. Glad I have had my
authenticator for quite some time. Not that it's the end-all means to
prevent hacking, but it's definitely discourages most hackers. Why go
through the trouble, when it's easier to hack a unsecured account.
Sure, there will be those that will do it, but there are less of them
then there are of the others.
Also - you need to check your PC if you haven't already to find out if
any keyloggers are there to see if that's how they hacked in. I also am
careful on visiting sites for WoW info. I use google for the search,
then always use the goggle cached version of that site. It's usually
only a few hours or a day behind what the actual site is, unless I
require live data (wow armory, wow-heroes, etc).
Still not sure about the new authenticator procedure. So far, so good
but I'd still like an opt out check box that forces me to enter my auth.
code each time. I'd feel better....
BTW - On that note, last week I was asked out of the blue for the first
time on my main PC since the new procedure went into effect for my auth
code. I'll have to keep a mental note of how often it asks for
verification. So far, once now in 3 weeks, and it did ask for it when I
went on a trip and accessed my account while I was on my laptop at a
hotel. Come to think of it, it also said something like I was playing
outside of my usual schedule (during a weekday, when I normally am at
work). Is Bliz tracking our playing history/frequency/time to help
combat hacking? Not sure I like that as I just don't like being tracked
or watched in general from credit card usage history, to traffic light
cameras, GPS tracking. Not a conspiracy person or anything...just
private and don't like it. But I understand as far as Bliz is concerned
that I agree to it when I choose to play the game, and can leave if I
don't like it. Can't so much with the other type of surveillance...