Two weeks ago someone hacked my primary WoW account (I have 3), and sold all my gear to in-game vendors before mailing off all the money from the sale to some unknown destination.
This affected 4 of my characters. My Priest, who is my main character, is the one who's loss hurt me the most. He has equipment that I can not replace because several people left our guild and we can no longer do anything in Blackwing Lair (BWL).
But the expansion is coming out in about 3 weeks, so people tell me to just wait it out and replace my gear with new gear as I level from 60, the current level cap, to 70, the new cap when the expansion comes out in January.
And possibly the worst part of all this is that I have no idea how my password was compromised. The traditional method is to hack the persons computer and install a keylogger that tracks all keystrokes. If that happened, then I could have my RL banking information stolen and my identity stolen. Jokes on them though, I've got nothing to steal.
Anyways, Blizzard was kind enough to send me an e-mail saying it would take 5-7 days to investigate the theft. You see, they have to make sure I didn't sell my gear and mail the money to a friend in game. Then if they restored all my gear they would have been scammed. But they've had almost 3 weeks to investigate now, and it's driving me crazy. Oh well, I just wanted to rant.
2006-12-20
2006-12-05
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