Two weeks ago on a Saturday, I woke up a bit groggy from the previous night of playing EQ2 only to discover three interesting e-mails in my inbox. They were e-mails from Blizzard and had all been sent within about 10 minutes of each other earlier that morning. They read as follows:
“This is a notice that the email address on your World of Warcraft account ******** has been changed. If you did not request this change please fill out our Account Security/Compromise webform at http://us.blizzard.com/support/webform.xml. If this change was intended please disregard this notice. Thank you.”
Basically, someone hacked three of my WOW accounts by changing the e-mail address and then sending themselves new passwords. I tried to log in shortly after getting the e-mails, to no avail. I then tried to log into the Blizzard web site and that didn’t work either. The next step was to call Blizzard customer service but guess what? They are closed on Saturday – of course. That meant I had to wait until Monday to try to get my accounts back. On Monday, I was able to get my accounts back and set up a new battle net account. Unfortunately, my friends from China deleted my level 80 characters and created an armada of characters named “Bhskejlshdsd” or something to spam gold announcements on various servers. On the inactive accounts, they activated 10 day trials so they could spam to their hearts content. Once I had the accounts back, Blizzard told me to send an in-game petition listing the various compromised accounts and they would do a roll-back; resetting the accounts to what they were just prior to the compromise. A few days later, I got notices that two of my accounts were banned due to violating the terms of service. Surprise… Surprise… I’ll keep you posted. Hopefully, they can restore my gear, characters and accounts soon. This is the first time I’ve been attacked and it would be an understatement to say that I wasn’t amused.
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Wow, that totally sucks. I take it your WoW account was active? I wonder how they broke in. I guess they could’ve used a brute-force attack on Blizzard’s server but I’m sure they would have detected that and shut it down. Maybe they got a key logger on your PC? Have you scanned it for viruses?
I did a complete scan on my main system using CC Cleaner, Malwarebytes and AVG with rootkit search and didn’t find anything. I originally suspected a key logger but it could have been brute force as well. One thing is for sure – it totally sucked.
Damn dude that toally sucks. I stared playing WoW again due to the lack of peaple that play vanguard. Not really a high lvl atm but working on it.