In the most egregious of ways. Yes my friends, in my 1,5 year long absence, some hooligan has hacked into my WoW account and sold a large number of my gear and probably stole a bunch of gold as well, though I have no idea how much I had. I log back on and find that almost all of my Protection (Paladin) gear is gone, so I went from being a pretty good tank to no tank at all. What I'm left with is an assortment of Retribution gear, PVP gear and a few Protection pieces, making me a shitty jack of all trades. I am sadface. I have just enough Ret gear to pull my weight in an instance, but I have to build up a new set of Prot gear. Oh well, the expansion hits soon anyway so it's not a huge deal. I contacted Blizzard support in-game, and apparently they have a good track record of restoring lost items due to stuff like this so here's hoping. Anything similar ever happened to you?