My current one broke awhile ago so I had it removed. Now my account's been hacked. I could get it reactivated but without another authenticator I'd just get hacked again probably.
I ordered two when I got the first one so I have a spare lying around somewhere. I can't find it.
This topic is where I will think really hard until I remember where it is.
Here I go.
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I'm sorry to change the topic but is having battle.net accounts hacked really this much of an epidemic that you're guaranteed to get hacked without an authenticator?
It means I have a keylogger and I don't know if I'll be able to clear it. Even if I run a bunch of programs to clear it, I'll never know for sure if I got the one that hacked me.
The only way to really be safe now is to get an authenticator.
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From: Robazoid | #002 I'm sorry to change the topic but is having battle.net accounts hacked really this much of an epidemic that you're guaranteed to get hacked without an authenticator?
Yes. My WoW account was hacked like 6 months after I stopped playing. I didn't find out until 2 months later when I got an email saying it was frozen for gold selling and I was like "lol what I have played in like 8 months". No idea how it could've happened... I have anti-virus/spyware software and the only thing I usually download is torrents (MODS: TORRENTS OF LEGAL THINGS THAT ARE ABLE TO BE SHARED OF COURSE).
Holy ****. So I ended up just using my brothers android as an authenticator until I get my own smartphone (which will actually be within a week or two)
But I'm going to go through the sequence of events that happened to my knowledge (there are holes where I don't know what the ****). I think it's pretty funny.
So yesterday at around 6pm I logged onto WoW to get ready for the raid 2 hours later. When I went to log in, my account was locked. That happens when someone at another IP tries to log in, they just automatically lock it. So I figured my hackers got foiled by Blizz's defense system.
Now, most of my characters are all on the Mannoroth server, which has 4 level 85s including my old warrior main, Grimmsh. However, I recently transferred my current main, my rogue Desukà, to Kil'Jaeden to raid with a new guild. I still play on my other characters, but since I was on for raid I just went on Desukà. I didn't notice anything missing, my gold looked about right (around 40k), so I figured the hackers didn't get in. I raided for a few hours and eventually logged off. I forgot to do something after I logged off so I immediately tried to log back in, but my account was closed/ banned. I looked at my email and it said I was banned for exploiting the economy, exchanging gold or something for real world money.
I obviously haven't done that so I figured I could just get them to remove it, but I should attach an authenticator to prove that it won't happen again, since I won't get hacked. This is when I made this topic.
Several HNNNNNNG sessions later I gave up and asked my brother if I could use his android smartphone temporarily. He didn't mind so I attached to my account. So then I made my plea to Blizz to restore my account.
Their response? Nope. Absolutely not. I broke the rules and their decision will not be reversed. Then they closed my ticket.
So I reopened the ticket and was basically like, come oooooon.
So they responded with, nope, these are the rules. Except actually yeah here's your account.
It was a weird message. There was like a paragraph of them implying they won't do it, then suddenly one line of them saying I can play again >_>
I get an email saying a bunch of items and gold (48k, which seems like more than I remember Grimmsh having >_>) were being restored to Grimmsh. But one odd thing caught my eye. The realm said Firetree. "But he's on Mannoroth!"
So I log in, sure enough, Grimmsh, (along with some random level 1 character I never made) are on that Firetree. The hackers transferred one of my main characters to Firetree. ****ing Firetree.
How could this have happened? When? Was he already on Firetree when I logged in to raid? Was it during? Right after when the account got locked? I have no idea!
I currently have a ticket open for that, but man. Firetree. Of all the realms, why would they send me there?
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