Being hacked?
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Topic: Being hacked?
Posted By: Tastic
Subject: Being hacked?
Date Posted: 28 May 2010 at 8:25pm
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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 [:'(] |
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Posted By: pepsi
Date Posted: 28 May 2010 at 8:50pm
| That sucks! What game was it? |
Posted By: Tastic
Date Posted: 28 May 2010 at 9:30pm
| World of warcraft |
Posted By: Kalimirella
Date Posted: 28 May 2010 at 10:07pm
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Awww that really sucks, its so hard to get to high lvl on WoW.
However WoW accounts get hacked a lot because they are so valuable and people will pay to buy an account with high lvl characters with good gear. And those who hack can make gold with em and sell that too.... Ah this is making me have withdrawal symptoms. ------------- Kiara is 3 and Teagan is 2, now we're expecting our long awaited 3rd! http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Babykatnz
Date Posted: 28 May 2010 at 10:17pm
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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  ------------- Brandon - 05/12/2003  
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Posted By: kellie
Date Posted: 28 May 2010 at 10:18pm
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Have you got an up to date antivirus and spyware/malware program running?
The most usual way people gain access to accounts such as this is through email. Either by pretending to be from WoW, or by getting into your email itself. It would be a good idea to change your email passwords as a precaution. Good luck to your hubby, hope he levels up again soon!  ------------- 
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Posted By: High9
Date Posted: 28 May 2010 at 10:36pm
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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. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Mucky_Tiger
Date Posted: 28 May 2010 at 11:16pm
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when you reset passwords use the onscreen keyboard (in accessories)
it will stop hackers who may have set up a key stroke copier on your computer. change all passwords this way |
Posted By: Tastic
Date Posted: 28 May 2010 at 11:29pm
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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!!!) |
Posted By: High9
Date Posted: 28 May 2010 at 11:35pm
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Some people have careers out of it, like if other players get pissed then they pay them to hack accounts, sorta like a job. It's so ridiculous!! (DP has a guy in his IT course who hacks for a living) ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Nutella
Date Posted: 28 May 2010 at 11:44pm
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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. ------------- 
 Oct 11
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Posted By: Babykatnz
Date Posted: 29 May 2010 at 11:00am
Yeah, quest items wouldnt have been able to be sold, but if his chars had enchanting, they could disenchant any gear unable to be sold, and then sell the components from said DEing... I had only been playing for a year, but I'd finally levelled my main up enough to get a mount (back before they changed it to level 20 from 40!) and my hunter could finally wear the mail I'd gotten while tagging along in an instance way over my level (have some friends with level 80's that were very obliging  )
Friend of mine has been playing for about that long too, I imagine he would be more than gutted of his account was ever hacked!! He's the one who introduced it to me years ago, but I couldnt play myself until we got the desktop 2 years ago! ------------- Brandon - 05/12/2003
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Posted By: Tastic
Date Posted: 29 May 2010 at 2:26pm
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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
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Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 29 May 2010 at 2:37pm
| Forward them to the cops. if they are in nz, it is illegal and perhaps they can do something ab out it. |
Posted By: High9
Date Posted: 29 May 2010 at 2:37pm
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That sucks hun! Can you mark the email address as spam so it skips your inbox? ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Tastic
Date Posted: 29 May 2010 at 2:42pm
| Lizzle - I rang hubby before and he said leave them in my deleted folder for now and he will try to sort a few things out tonight. I may tell him to just ring the cops though.it comes from a hotmail account so if I mark it as spam will all hotmail addresses become spam? |
Posted By: Babykatnz
Date Posted: 29 May 2010 at 4:39pm
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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 ------------- Brandon - 05/12/2003
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Posted By: BugTeeny
Date Posted: 29 May 2010 at 4:48pm
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I'm a WOW Widow, so I know your DH's pain.
My Hubby would CRY if that happened to him. I know this can't help with your current situation, but if he gets any of his game stuff recovered/sorted (cos 3 x level 80 characters are valuable!! Especially when paying $45USD a month to keep them running!!), WOW has a security key application you can download to your phone. DH uses it. Whenever he logs in he puts in hus username and password, then it promps him for the security key which is a randomly generated 9 digit (I think 9) that gets sent to his phone that he has to put in. (that gets changed every time he logs in) Just a bit of extra security
Also, check with your banks and so on to see if they offer that kind of thing, too. I hope that made sense. ------------- 
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Posted By: kriss
Date Posted: 29 May 2010 at 4:59pm
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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! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
http://lilypie.com"> 
 Little Angel, April 10
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Posted By: Smelly_Kelly
Date Posted: 30 May 2010 at 10:59am
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Sorey cant help - DH and I both play wow and havnt gotten out accts hacked yet, We have an authenticator tho. although one of our friends has been hacked. He had to change everything - email, password etc, he also contacted blizz and they got all his gold and gear back for him. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/392aa6"> 
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Posted By: Smelly_Kelly
Date Posted: 30 May 2010 at 11:11am
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what faction and server do u guys play on? im Alliance on Khadgar ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Babykatnz
Date Posted: 30 May 2010 at 11:44am
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I'm Alliance on Jubei'Thos, and Horde on Dath'Remar, and have friends IRL that play on both realms with me
I need a game card!!! Have to wait until after Jaes birthday cos all our money is going inot that right now...------------- Brandon - 05/12/2003
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Posted By: Tastic
Date Posted: 30 May 2010 at 11:50am
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he is on tharissan (sp)
I believe he is horde and alliance I use to play before the kids were born - hence the my email on the account. he closed his one and used mine as he like my character. upsetting knowing that all the hard work I had put in to it aswell as hubby is gone but hubby has told me he has contacted blizzard about it and filled out the forms needed so heres hoping! Thanks kelly for the authenticator link (on FB) Ill give it to hubby tonight. will have to wait till next pay though to get a prezzy card to buy it though |
Posted By: Smelly_Kelly
Date Posted: 30 May 2010 at 11:51am
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ill start playing again after Molly gets more settled. i have 3 80s now but im getting bored. may start a new char.... ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Tastic
Date Posted: 04 July 2010 at 8:49pm
| just wanted to let you know the company managed to get most of hubby's gear etc back. only things they couldn;t get back were the ones the person disenchanted |