Assholes need to die!

[Deathsane]

So just recently I started playin WoW again after quitting for a about 6 months, but since I was out of school for a while I thought I would start playing for a little bit. So the first few weeks were good just doin my thing. then suddenly i login to my account and find that i've been hacked, and this never happened to me before so i was quite suprised so I talked to a GM and got my shit back. But it just keeps happening, I've been hacked 2 more times since and its making me really not wanna play this game anymore that at one time I really enjoyed. The hackers are ruining the game!!!

So I ask you escapists has something like this ever happened in a game that just made you so angry you wanted to just quit playing the game and never set eyes on it again?

 

[manaman]

Have you tried going to http://www.pctools.com/guides/password/ to create a secure random password?

 

[Xeros]

Sure have. Hackers fucked over my entire guild in WoW. Don't know about most of them, but I was sure as hell done with. I'm not forking over $15 a month for that fucking nonsense.

 

[TheNamlessGuy]

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[khaimera]

I've never had an account hacked, but I only play on consoles. Wishing death on someone over WOW, all I can say is Wow. Not the game, but the word.

 

[WilliamRLBaker]

Sure have. Hackers fucked over my entire guild in WoW. Don't know about most of them, but I was sure as hell done with. I'm not forking over $15 a month for that fucking nonsense.

Um, how did he screw over your entire guild? Either your guild leader was stupid or doing something stupid to get himself hacked or you invited some random person who then stole everything. It is not the games fault it is essentially yours/guilds fault.

Or it could be that wow has thousands of hackers doing just these things to make gold and money? since gold farming is still a lucrative business in WoW...and short of being god of the net really you can't help but be hacked in WoW which is why it happens constantly regardless of measures taken.

I've seen it many many times guys have taken every single precaution and still gotten hacked.

 

[Fusionxl]

I've seen it many many times guys have taken every single precaution and still gotten hacked.

I call shenanigans, I haven't changed my EVE Online password for 3 years and still haven't had any problems with hackers. If you manage to leak your login details it's your own fault.

 

[snow]

Sure have. Hackers fucked over my entire guild in WoW. Don't know about most of them, but I was sure as hell done with. I'm not forking over $15 a month for that fucking nonsense.

Um, how did he screw over your entire guild? Either your guild leader was stupid or doing something stupid to get himself hacked or you invited some random person who then stole everything. It is not the games fault it is essentially yours/guilds fault.

Yes but when some one is going in and taking away the joy you could be having while playing the game. No one is going to want to play, especially when money is involved. Yes it's not the games fault, but 15 dollars a month could be easily used elsewhere if some one is taking the fun out of the game.

 

[Actual]

Hijacking of accounts relies entirely on the owner of the account making a mistake.

Giving their password to a gold seller, a friend, or anything that isn't the WoW log in page.
Not keeping their computer free of keyloggers.
Choosing easy to guess passwords and security questions.
My favourite: re-using a password that a hijacker already knows!!
Or playing on a public computer.

I hear the authenticator tool can really help if you insist on not keeping your own account secure.

 

[DazZ.]

Password change, and virus (keylog) check, stop looking at porn.
I'd format if it happened that many times though.

No I haven't had anything stolen from me because I'm not an eejit with my details, with fake passwords/accounts on things that don't look secure.

 

[Xeros]

Sure have. Hackers fucked over my entire guild in WoW. Don't know about most of them, but I was sure as hell done with. I'm not forking over $15 a month for that fucking nonsense.

Um, how did he screw over your entire guild? Either your guild leader was stupid or doing something stupid to get himself hacked or you invited some random person who then stole everything. It is not the games fault it is essentially yours/guilds fault.

Over the course of about a month, our GM got hacked twice, my brother got hacked, my friend got hacked, and then I got hacked. Hacker cleaned us all out, emptied the GB, deleted most of our gear and spent our tokens on random crap. No idea what we did to get hacked, especially all of us so close together. I run the game vanilla for the most part, and we never invite random people.

EDIT: I know it's not the games fault, but stuff like that can still ruin it. That's why I stopped playing WarRock.

 

[o_O]

Sure have. Hackers fucked over my entire guild in WoW. Don't know about most of them, but I was sure as hell done with. I'm not forking over $15 a month for that fucking nonsense.

Um, how did he screw over your entire guild? Either your guild leader was stupid or doing something stupid to get himself hacked or you invited some random person who then stole everything. It is not the games fault it is essentially yours/guilds fault.

Over the course of about a month, our GM got hacked twice, my brother got hacked, my friend got hacked, and then I got hacked. Hacker cleaned us all out, emptied the GB, deleted most of our gear and spent our tokens on random crap. No idea what we did to get hacked, especially all of us so close together. I run the game vanilla for the most part, and we never invite random people.

EDIT: I know it's not the games fault, but stuff like that can still ruin it. That's why I stopped playing WarRock.

GM's are admins, right? How does that even happen?


As to the topic at hand, it's always because the *USER* has done something to compromise their account/computer. Stop going to untrusted fansites or crap like that. Don't download crap related to the game unless it's released by the developer. Don't log in on any computer you don't trust is clean (no cyber cafes). Use a freaking antivirus. Use a password people can't brute-force or the like (not something you can find in the dictionary basically). I seriously have never gotten how people manage to get hacked unless they're doing something stupid. Same with scamming. Anyone that says that they've done all this crap and says they were hacked are lying.

 

[Xeros]

GM's are admins, right? How does that even happen?

Meant guild master.

 

[Wolfram23]

I played WoW for like 4.5 years and never ever had that happen, without ever changing my PW. I think you must have spyware/keyloggers on your comp. Also, a password like "12345" is not safe. At all. Try something like yoMan@35 that's a secure one that's pretty impossible to guess. numbers + upper+lower case + special characters = good password.

The only peole I had heard of getting hacked also bought WoW gold.

 

[Tharwen]

Someone has your account details. Get an authenticator, don't buy gold.

 

[Valksy]

I have had a WoW account for five years - as have 3 out fo 4 of my housemates. None of us has ever been hacked. You have to learn how to take care of yourself and your PC - losing your WoW account is one thing. Losing your bank account or your identity is a whole other ball game.

Most common causes would be:

Picking up a keylogger (now these are cunning bastards and they get everywhere. I have heard of stories like keylogger on the ISS, on the official Superbowl pages a couple years ago and pre-installed on a thumb drive). It can be bloody hard to find them once you have them. Starting by using a more secure browser and something like Noscript is a start.

Falling for as phish. Seriously - check where emails are originating from. Keep in mind that Blizzard ban first, ask questions later and not the other way around. And don't assume that you are a special snowflake who would receive a special pet/mount/whatever if you log on to a website.

Blizzard dropped the ball years ago by not nipping the RMT trend in the bud when player numbers were still small enough to do it. There is no way on earth that the powers that be at ActiBlizzard will ever let them ban the tens of thousands of players who buy gold. That is the only blame you can lay at their door. Getting keylogged or phished is the fault of the user and I guess Blizzard are being generous by restoring damaged accounts - plenty of other games would not.

Just look at the bigger picture and what it means to have your PC tampered with and covered in malware.