(09-16-2013, 11:45 AM)Gimlette Wrote: "Hacked" ...or were they simply stupid enough to go to the wrong sites or to give their information for powerleveling. Â If they were truly hacked i'll feel badly for them...but honestly, i wonder how many of them made a bad choice.
Yes, hacked. Â I love how everyone always feels the need to blame the victim in these cases.
Newsflash: You don't have to go to a sketchy site to get hacked. Â It can be as simple as going to a perfectly legitimate site on an unsecured computer, mousing over a 3rd party ad, and BAMMO, you have a keylogger.
Additionally, SE has posted a notice on the launcher stating that 3rd party fansites have been hacked and are still having their databases compromised. Â If you use the same password for the game or your email that you use on those fansites, it's easy peasy to get into your account.
There's may also be session jacking going on. Â This was an issue in Rift, as well, wherein hackers were able to jack people's accounts by hijacking their login sessions with the servers themselves (completely bypassing accessing the victim's account), emptying people's gold and items and then leaving the husk of the character behind (all the while spamming for gold in various channels).
Even if you have a security token, if your email password and your game password are the same, and they get a hold of one or the other, you can kiss your security token goodbye. Â They'll just unlink it from your account and be home free.
I've seen dozens of people hacked in the time that I've played WoW, and if you go to the SE forums, there is post after post of people hacked right now. Â Hell, I was hacked in Rift when they had the security exploit on their servers, and I have never gone to a gold-selling website, much less purchased gold. Â It might be fun to try to blame the victim, but in this case I really think that people should be given the benefit of the doubt.
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