Have you been hacked before?

[Snarky Username]

"Hacked" = someone guessing your password

In wow, they'd have to guess both your username and password, so that may get a little difficult. It's more likely a keylogger or Trojan downloaded onto your computer.

Exactly what happened to me. Just got the email 10 minutes after I made the thread. Apparently I got Trojan'd or Keylogged, and then the shit hit the fan.

One day after I renewed my account after a 1 year Hiatus, no less.

What did the email say?

 

[Judgement101]

My XBL was hacked once, he made my avatar dressed differently. (Normally I wear Altiar's outfit, he changed it to Ezio) Oh the horror...[HEADING=2]THE HORROR[/HEADING]

 

[aLivingPheonix]

"Hacked" = someone guessing your password

In wow, they'd have to guess both your username and password, so that may get a little difficult. It's more likely a keylogger or Trojan downloaded onto your computer.

Exactly what happened to me. Just got the email 10 minutes after I made the thread. Apparently I got Trojan'd or Keylogged, and then the shit hit the fan.

One day after I renewed my account after a 1 year Hiatus, no less.

What did the email say?

Um... Something along the lines of "The computer in which this account was last played on has a keylogger/trojan. We have temporarily suspended the account for 24 hours, and initiated a password reset."

Did I mention the hacker got me suspended for 3 hours, as well?

 

[Julianking93]

Not a WoW account (since I don't play it) but I did have my entire computer hacked and destroyed about 2 years ago.

Fucking assholes, man. Probably some prick from 4chan.

 

[Avelestar]

My steam account got hacked twice. First time I think someone guessed my password....second time my little brother clicked on a phishing link. Thankgod I got it back both times, so many games on there.

 

[The Procrastinated End]

That must really suck but I've never really been hacked before.

 

[Snarky Username]

"Hacked" = someone guessing your password

In wow, they'd have to guess both your username and password, so that may get a little difficult. It's more likely a keylogger or Trojan downloaded onto your computer.

Exactly what happened to me. Just got the email 10 minutes after I made the thread. Apparently I got Trojan'd or Keylogged, and then the shit hit the fan.

One day after I renewed my account after a 1 year Hiatus, no less.

What did the email say?

Um... Something along the lines of "The computer in which this account was last played on has a keylogger/trojan. We have temporarily suspended the account for 24 hours, and initiated a password reset."

Did I mention the hacker got me suspended for 3 hours, as well?

Ok, never mind, I thought it was an email telling you that your account got hacked and you need to give a website your username and password. Just make sure to use whatever antivirus software you use to get the trojan off ass soon as possible.

 

[AmayaOnnaOtaku]

Never. I played WoW for 5 years.

Then again... I do a few things personally that make it a little difficult for a hacker to get into my account.

same here I have an authenticator plus a strong password as well as a good internet security suite and never click on emails that look suspect

 

[aLivingPheonix]

"Hacked" = someone guessing your password

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Ok, never mind, I thought it was an email telling you that your account got hacked and you need to give a website your username and password. Just make sure to use whatever antivirus software you use to get the trojan off ass soon as possible.

Nah, I'd never fall for that.

Except for one time, 3 years ago...

 

[RN7]

I did. In WoW. I had stopped playing for about 4 months then I got an e-mail saying I had been banned. Turns out someone hacked my account a month after my subscription ran out and used it to gold farm. I had to go through about 5 different departments for things like getting unbanned and having my stuff restored. They continually said the account was a fixed but I still had the ban on, even though they said it was lifted. Eventually I just gave up and stopped trying, turning the other games instead.

 

[Yureina]

Never. I played WoW for 5 years.

Then again... I do a few things personally that make it a little difficult for a hacker to get into my account.

same here I have an authenticator plus a strong password as well as a good internet security suite and never click on emails that look suspect

I don't have an authenticator. What I do have is a strong password, an e-mail address I use exclusively for WoW (which means I never check it), only one computer that I play on (which means my e-mail address never gets typed into the WoW game), and I jumble my passwords like crazy. My password for that e-mail account is not the same as the one I used on my WoW account, even though both have the same "username". I am also notoriously paranoid about sites I visit and I don't download porn or go to any porn sites ever.

Stuff like that. I feel pretty safe.

 

[Starke]

I had my steam account phished by a fellow escapist whose steam account had just been hacked. The hilarious part was the hacker tried to phish my account by linking to a fake steam community site, except they did it from the steam chat window, so I got a pop up window saying I was going to a non-steam site when I followed the link.

 

[Marter]

Nope, I never have. Then again, I don't play online games much any more.