LEAVE ME ALONE. I was hacked once two years ago, for my World of Warcraft stuff. I was pretty oblivious to viruses back then, I didn't have an anti-virus. So back then, I'd say my computer was most likely infected with something that lead to my account being compromised. I can deal with that, I reformatted my computer and got all my stuff back.
I have stopped playing WoW, I dislike what the game has turned into, and I don't want to spend the time on it, I'm never playing it again. I haven’t played it in months, and I deleted all of my characters (just recently, I’ll get to that).
I quit WoW cold turkey back just before Christmas. I said my goodbyes, and moved on, and my account subscription expired on the 26th of the December. I spent the next month feeling positively liberated, when I woke up to an e-mail on the 24th of January, telling me that my account was under investigation for possible account trading and gold selling. I was thinking to myself, how the fuck? For a moment I figured it was one of those scam e-mails that you get, asking for you to log in and verify your account information (I have never fallen for these.)
I went to log into my Battle.net account, and my password was wrong. I got no e-mail saying my password had been changed, and I change the password to my e-mail on a weekly basis out of habit. So that’s a little confusing. Thankfully, I remembered my secret question answer and got my account back. There it was, my World of Warcraft account was banned.
How did these fuckers get onto my account when I have no viruses, key loggers, or haven’t fallen for any of their scam e-mails? My computer is scanned on a nightly basis by Avast! Internet Security 2010, and previously AVG Internet Security, I also scan on a weekly basis with Malwarebytes. My computer is clean.
Luckily I was already planning on going out to get Windows 7, so I had a clean install on a new Operating System. I got my WoW account unbanned - That poor fucker used his credit card to activate time on my account - Like I said earlier, I’d get to this point. I went on and deleted all of my characters to (hopefully) insure that’ll never happen again.
The question still stands, how was my account compromised? I guess I’ll never know.
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