Being hacked?

Has anyone been hacked before?
Hubby had one of his accounts (for his game) hacked, they stripped everything (this account costs money to play) so Im very pissed! Ive just spent the last 30 minutes changing passwords for everything, because he used my email address for this account! we changed it, then whoever it was, changed it AGAIN! this went on 3 flippen times. we have no idea who it was or how they managed to keep changing it
but now I'm freaking out as to what else they can get into!

anyone got any advice on how to stop this (apart from getting off the net :/ )

I told hubby at 7.36pm when I received the email saying the password was originally changed, it took him 10 minutes to get the password reset then yeah another few times for him to have access to that account! everything in that game my husband has spent hours on - literally HOURS/days/weeks/months years even (he started playing this game like 2003 - maybe even before that) on GONE!!! in 20 minutes [:'(]

World of warcraft

I've lost an account that way... I now have another account (was my first account and a whole years worth of work gone down the drain!!) and suddenly keep getting all these spam emails saying my account is going to get closed cos I'm 'selling' it or some rubbish... I dont click on ANY link within an email... if I need to access my account, I go straight to the WoW website...

I'm having withdrawals too... we havent had the money since Feb for me to play

DP used to play wow. And he spent A LONG time playing so I understand how guttering it must be!

Make sure you have different passwords for everything that aren't easily guessed. Make sure you have, like kellie said, up to date spyware/antivirus etc software. If possible copy and paste passwords from somewhere else as this blocks them from seeing key strokes. Also takes hakers longer to figure out where you copy and pasted from too.

I would also be worried about internet banking passwords etc too...

Hope you get it sorted soon though!!

I don't know about WOW but I know on other games like Runescape they have bots that are against the rules that people use to level quicker but people can also use them to hack into others accounts.

But also like kellie said, people can gain them by posing as WOW people or other places iygwim.

thanks everyone. yeah he is totally pissed had 3 level 80 characters! this hacker managed to sell everything not boe? or bop? and then they sent all the gold to another person. this included all hubby bags etc the characters were wearing... everything possible ohh and they use some sort of portal thing so when hubby finally logged on he 'fell though the world'!

yep I have a brand new antivirius which I got 2 weeks ago, not sure about hubby though. Im so angry1 why do people thing its fun to ruin it for others
Kalimirella - he didn't buy these characters he started from scratch. been playing wow since beta! so a few years now! (2004!!!)

Serious....this is sooo nerdy, I had no idea such nerdyness existed in the world and I thought I was a nerd haha!
Sorry for your hubby Tastic, just seems crazy that people buy cheating stuff like that..how is that any fun.

And stink hackers..that is lame.

and it doesn't end
Ive received emails from other providers asking me for my details etc now. all sent to my email (cause it was my email account used on hubbys game) sender is different (windows live, trademe, anz) but the acutal email they were sent from is the same!
I knew as soon as it asked for my name, password, dob and country that it was a crock of sh*t
my antivirus has also picked up a few things today. its been going nuts!
sigh

That sucks hun! Can you mark the email address as spam so it skips your inbox?

nope, only the email address it came from, I've been marking all those emails as spam, and it just filters them through to my spam inbox instead

Aww Tastic, that sux!!

I've been playing too, and know how loooong it takes to level!!

Hope you manage to sort it all out soon!