Comments on: Hacked: What if it was all gone?

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 18:08:41 +0000

@Graylo. If Blizzard is giving you back more gold than you got before its probably better to be upfront about it and open a ticket about it. Offcourse if you don't know the exact amount you had its hard to do anything. Just look at that "Karatechop" guy who got the GM weapon. Offcourse Karatechop should have known better, but he got most of his guild banned due to it.

By: D

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:48:53 +0000

Kev, I'm really sorry to hear the news… I hope that you recover everything that you've lost… I stand by the authenticator comments above, but remember, if you have an iPhone, there's a mobile one out for free…

Had a guildie hacked recently as well and Blizz recovered everything back for him in a few days as well, so there is still hope!

By: Olivier

Olivier — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:32:29 +0000

Had the same problem with a guildie recently. We were able to recover the entire guild bank contents, and _think_ he recovered most of his stuff, too, after investigation. Guess it might depend on who/how you where hacked, though.

By: _

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:05:55 +0000

Sorry to hear about that Kev. Best wishes!

By: Graylo

Graylo — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:55:32 +0000

First of all, Sorry to hear you've been hacked. I know it sucks, and it may take them longer then normal to restore your account. When the GM of Fusion was hacked it took them over 8 days to restor his account because of all the gold and Raiding mats in the Gbank. You may have a similar situation given all of your guild banks.

I will give you one ray of hope though. One of my guildies was recently hacked and blizzard returned to him twice the amount of gold he had before the hack.

@Telburn & HokieJayBee

The fact that KevMar writes a blog and a couple of addons likely had no impact on the fact he was hacked.

The hackers don't go after wow bloggers or even gold bloggers. They go after WoW players. I don't really understand how it works, but I'm told that the keyloggers are picked up from websits around the web and most are probably wow Related.

KevMar's account was definately a big find for them, but lets face it. Its probably more profitable for them to hack for quantity rather than quality. Much like the Inscriptions business.

By: Geforce

Geforce — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:54:48 +0000

just... wow, the guy that hacked probably sold the gold and got some nice money -.-

sucks for you, but a GM really should be able to reimburse everything(they should be able with guild tabs aswell correct me if i'm wrong) they have log files of what u used to have (or they should )

a guildie of mine got hacked and the hacker used the account as a gathering bot, when the account got retrieved, an item reimbursement followed but this reimbursement also gave back al the herbs/gems/ores that the farmer had farmed and sold.

By: bubu

bubu — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:45:55 +0000

well all i can say is dont stress a lot, my account was haked a few months ago and the GM's gave me everything back, thank god for the logs ..
hopefully they will be able to return ur stuff back

By: HokieJayBee

HokieJayBee — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:16:37 +0000

that.......really.........sucks............

i recently lost stuff from my banker's guild bank when my brother's account got hacked. luckily the little banker of his that i allowed access could only remove 250g/day and 2 stacks per tab/day. so they only got 12 stacks of goodies and 250g. we got it all back in 2 days. and his banker, which i frankly forgot had access from a previous business venture, is no longer in guild.

he *swears* he doesn't look at porn or anything where he could've gotten a worm/trojan/key logger. and he *swears* he didn't input his username/password anywhere - like a fake starcraft beta key page. so if he's not lying to me, he basically got bull rushed hacked with log in attempts?

what/where/how do you think you got it? i mean, you put yourself out there WAY more than my brother does with the blog, the add-ons, etc.

sorry to hear for your losses. i'm not going to say, "get an authenticator" like everyone else, but if there's anything that you can remember or gleen from your story that might help others protect themselves, do share.

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:53:03 +0000

Ouch. I experienced this a long time ago (back in vanilla) when the process of recovery took far longer than it does now. Of course at the time I didn't lose anything near what you have. From knowing several folks that have been in a similar situation, you will most likely get the majority of your stuff back. It's still frustrating and unpleasant, but hopefully it won't have too much of a long term affect on you or your guild.

I see now what you were referring to as interesting timing on my comment yesterday, but as competitive as most of us probably are, I like to think that few would stoop to a level similar to this. Good luck on a fast recovery.

p.s. I'll follow everybody else and suggest an authenticator. Cheap with free shipping. It's not a perfect solution but it adds some safety and a lot of peace of mind.

By: bobreaze

bobreaze — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:30:53 +0000

Sucks to hear. I hope you get some stuff back and that blizzard returns at least the gold. Good luck.