idk i had my wow account hacked last year (inactive account for 9+months)and i have never had any accounts hacked before or given my passwords out.

also it happen around the same time that their was a big uprise in accounts being hacked.

also had that extra pw thing added on when it was hacked had to get support to remove it.

lots of fishy stuff with wow but i wouldnt blam any f2p companies of anything like that. my pw wasnt at the time the hardest to crack iam sure someone could of just used a dictinary thing to get it which they probly did with many ppls accounts.

This is the biggest Bullshit i have ever heared that game got some awards. It really has potential on the market and you  guys think they hack wow accounts omg...

Please stop playing WoT.

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Originally posted by SnarlingWolf
Ok, so you say you installed WoT, then the SAME DAY you go to resub to WoW. Considering you weren't subbed to WoW means you weren't logging in, that means there is no way for a program to grab your info. A phish gets your info when you type it in, the first time you went to type it in you found your account subbed by someone else, that means it wasn't anything that came from WoT.

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Well, technically you don't know that. First I went to battlenet.com to check my account and the status was active which made me go "What?!" and then I dug deeper and found the credit card info, etc. They had ALL day from when I installed WoT to when I checked the account on WoW to get the password and resub.

Anyway, I didn't say it WAS WoT just to be WARY as it possibly COULD be WoT. I still want to know what type of java code it might have been and which site I went to, which most probably was a video game site, since that's where I spend 90% of my online time.

If you dont trust indy companies who you install that shit, go back to WoW. Blizzard is everyone's friend! Im not kidding, internet is dangerous place. All kind of cyberbullies, cyberpedos. etc etc. Sick mother fucker stalkers!

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Originally posted by AzurePrower
A lot of inactive accounts have been strangely hacked out of the blue.

I'm one who is ever wary of phishing and hacking tricks. You could find no one else more paranoid. Yet my EU WoW account got hacked last year after 2 years of being inactive.

Doubt it is this "World of Tanks", though you never know since there was that whole Evony scandal.

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I wonder if it has nothing to do with phishers or viruses but is just plain blackmail from inside employees. Or something like it, someone who can access the WoW logging database and goes' through inactives. Like an inside job.

I had my account frozen for 4 months in wow, and I recieved an email stating that my account had been banned. Someone had activated it, done michievious things with my main, melted all vendorable items and then my account was banned. At the time, I didnt really care, because I had no plans of ever going back to wow. several months later, after finding nothing at all to hold my interest, I went through the channels to reinstate my account. Turns out that after the hacker took my account, they told thier credit card company to deny the charges. Blizz support team told me that there was no way to identify what was taken, and since the account was in the hole 15 dollars, I had to pay it to get it back, there was nothing I could do.

Not sure exactly how they got my account, my theory is that through addons/ftp games w/e, they already have a list  of user and passes longer than they can attack at once, and just go into accounts when they get to them. If you dont have the authenticator, you WILL get hacked, its just a matter of time.

Originally posted by Riboflavin

Not sure exactly how they got my account, my theory is that through addons/ftp games w/e, they already have a list  of user and passes longer than they can attack at once, and just go into accounts when they get to them. If you dont have the authenticator, you WILL get hacked, its just a matter of time.

 Addons... Didnt OP say something about that too. Oh boy. 

Get Authenticator.

Free bump, keep this warning alive tough, i got the same message about C++ visual repair thingy etc when i installed it.

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Originally posted by AoCrules

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Originally posted by Riboflavin
Not sure exactly how they got my account, my theory is that through addons/ftp games w/e, they already have a list  of user and passes longer than they can attack at once, and just go into accounts when they get to them. If you dont have the authenticator, you WILL get hacked, its just a matter of time.

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 Addons... Didnt OP say something about that too. Oh boy. 

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Not WoW addons, although that's possible too I suppose. Addons for other games could be as much of a culprit.

Free bump!

Too much freaking net-porn, taken advices by trolls, addons and such. Somehow I also sense some wow-addiction... Strange mix.

Originally posted by elocke

I haven't played WoW since April. Today I was bored and was looking at different games. I decided I would try World of Tanks, so I got the beta key, downloaded the client. Installed it. during the installation there was an odd moment where it said it had to repair the Microsoft Visual C++. That was a bit odd, I have never seen that before and I've installed lots of software over the years.

So I decided to resub to WoW. I go to my account to resub, and find it's been resubbed, TODAY!. But with a completely different credit card number I've never seen before. I was even able to log in, fortunately nothing had been changed yet. I called Blizzard, they had me change everything etc. so I am Extremely blessed today.

Not saying it is DEFINITELY the World of Tanks Beta client, but it's the ONLY thing I can think of that changed today on my PC. I have promptly removed it from my computer and am even more wary now of trying any FTPs these days.

 I also had that same repair the Microsoft Visual C++ pop up in WoT Download and also out of the blue I get a security warning from Blizzard with a verification link to be clicked or if it wasnt from me go to support email.I havnt played my warcraft account since a couple of months after wrotlk expac. so yea seems kind of fishy.

I play several f2p games never had any problems, this is the only one with that repair Microsoft Visual C++ thing though. 

Well obviously they spent a year or more developing this game, getting funding an loans, pulling a team together, finding a publisher, and putting this game out for the sole purpose of stealing your WoW account.

BTW the mind control drugs are in the tap water. 

Originally posted by Plutonicwoes

Well obviously they spent a year or more developing this game, getting funding an loans, pulling a team together, finding a publisher, and putting this game out for the sole purpose of stealing your WoW account.

BTW the mind control drugs are in the tap water. 

it would help if you would bother to read all te posts before posting.

This just makes u look somewhat stupid.

Isn't it weird so many ppl after that message have a e-mail from blizz that there acc is back on or banned etc..

Maybe it wasen't intended but these are facts.

Thank god there still is authenticator tough!

I dont even know what Visual C++ and these guys seems to know it better. Some people are just stupid. One thing what really blows me away people come to internet on public forum and ask if they SHOULD go to doctor for example. "Hey, I got this high fever, should I go to doctor?" Troll says "Nah its ok man"

after i installed martial online and launched it my warhammer online account was hacked havin its passwords etc all information changed :P the hell with free to play

Originally posted by Plutonicwoes

Well obviously they spent a year or more developing this game, getting funding an loans, pulling a team together, finding a publisher, and putting this game out for the sole purpose of stealing your WoW account.

BTW the mind control drugs are in the tap water. 

 I heard the op say that he wasnt sure it was just fishy and i agree it is fishy i had the same repair Microsoft Visuals C++ from the wot downloader and all of a sudden i start getting security warning emails with a click this for verification on my wow account also which like the op said could be and probably coincidence.

On another note I just redownloaded Age of Conan for the welcome back try RotGS for 10 days offer and no where during the install did I have a seperate pop up requiring me to "repair" anything on my pc and AoC is a graphics monster so yes it is kind of fishy to me.

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Originally posted by Asheram

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Originally posted by Plutonicwoes
Well obviously they spent a year or more developing this game, getting funding an loans, pulling a team together, finding a publisher, and putting this game out for the sole purpose of stealing your WoW account.
BTW the mind control drugs are in the tap water. 

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 I heard the op say that he wasnt sure it was just fishy and i agree it is fishy i had the same repair Microsoft Visuals C++ from the wot downloader and all of a sudden i start getting security warning emails with a click this for verification on my wow account also which like the op said could be and probably coincidence.
On another note I just redownloaded Age of Conan for the welcome back try RotGS for 10 days offer and no where during the install did I have a seperate pop up requiring me to "repair" anything on my pc and AoC is a graphics monster so yes it is kind of fishy to me.

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Exactly. I'm not pointing fingers at a specific game per se, just trying to make everyone aware of my actions in the last few months, most of them pertaining to trying out FTPs and the possible correlation between the 2.

Originally posted by Asheram

Originally posted by Plutonicwoes

Well obviously they spent a year or more developing this game, getting funding an loans, pulling a team together, finding a publisher, and putting this game out for the sole purpose of stealing your WoW account.

BTW the mind control drugs are in the tap water. 

 I heard the op say that he wasnt sure it was just fishy and i agree it is fishy i had the same repair Microsoft Visuals C++ from the wot downloader and all of a sudden i start getting security warning emails with a click this for verification on my wow account also which like the op said could be and probably coincidence.

Two unrelated events. Cataclysm is ramping up so the gold sellers have increased their efforts to steal accounts. Hundreds of thousands of people are getting several 'Cataclysm Beta Invitation' and 'Account Verification' emails the past few weeks.

Also, if he supposedly wasn't sure then he probably shouldn't have titled the post

Be wary of a WoW phisher in World of Tanks Beta download...

Originally posted by elocke

 

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Originally posted by SnarlingWolf
Ok, so you say you installed WoT, then the SAME DAY you go to resub to WoW. Considering you weren't subbed to WoW means you weren't logging in, that means there is no way for a program to grab your info. A phish gets your info when you type it in, the first time you went to type it in you found your account subbed by someone else, that means it wasn't anything that came from WoT.

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Well, technically you don't know that. First I went to battlenet.com to check my account and the status was active which made me go "What?!" and then I dug deeper and found the credit card info, etc. They had ALL day from when I installed WoT to when I checked the account on WoW to get the password and resub.

Anyway, I didn't say it WAS WoT just to be WARY as it possibly COULD be WoT. I still want to know what type of java code it might have been and which site I went to, which most probably was a video game site, since that's where I spend 90% of my online time.

OK...there are a few things to address in this thread.  First, SnarlingWolf was saying that if you were not subbed to WoW and the first time you used your login information was when you found out that it was subbed already, there is no way they could have gotten your information because you never used it between the time you installed the game and when you logged into Battle.net.  Unless of course you used the same information for both games.

Phishing is typically done via e-mail or messages, and usually involves the user volunteering his or her information to a fake employee or entering it on a dummy site.  I believe what you are referring to regarding malware is a keylogger.

WoW mods are coded in Lua.  They cannot contain viruses or keyloggers unless they come with some sort of executable that you or the mod runs.  If you install the mods by hand, you should know what is in the file and will be safe.  There are instances of mod updaters such as the Curse client possibly being infected, particularly if you do not download it from a reliable source.

It's a Visual C++ redistributable package.

For example, http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9b2da534-3e03-4391-8a4d-074b9f2bc1bf&displaylang=en

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