Yup.  I got banned from World of Warcraft and I've only had it for three days.  Actually it's safer to say that whoever was kind enough to hack my account got me banned.  Thankfully I was only using a trial card and whoever did it does not have my credit card information. 
 
 
EDIT:  I've gotten my account back.  Turns out I wasn't hacked, a group of people just thought it would be funny to report the new guy for spamming the chat channel.

Wow.  You got hacked in three days?  I'm speechless.

seriously.

" @Br3adfan: Was your password "internet"? "

I'm sure you could call Blizzard and get things sorted out.

Lol that's ridiculous. XD

dangggg...that sucks. 
  
someone on your computer must do a lot of illicit downloading. 
or one of your friends hates you.

" I'm sure you could call Blizzard and get things sorted out. "

" @Br3adfan: Was your password "internet"? "

Having had an account hacked, but not banned, they're pretty good about it. You call customer support (or maybe account services) and they just ask you some security questions to make sure you're really you. It happens all the time so the process is fairly streamlined.

" @EpicSteve said:

" I'm sure you could call Blizzard and get things sorted out. "

I sent them an e-mail, hopefully they can sort it out.  My friend got his account hacked a while ago and whoever did it got his credit card information as well. "

" @Br3adfan:  You're better off that way, man. Consider it divine intervention. "

" Yup.  I got banned from World of Warcraft and I've only had it for three days.  Actually it's safer to say that whoever was kind enough to hack my account got me banned.  Thankfully I was only using a trial card and whoever did it does not have my credit card information.  Anyway, to anyone who has experienced this sort of thing.  How good is Blizzard about recovering accounts after they have been hacked and banned? "

They're extremely efficient about restoring hacked accounts. Officer in our guild got hacked, they took the whole guild bank along with all his toon's junk. We had everything back the way it was in about two days.

" @Br3adfan said:

" @EpicSteve said:

" I'm sure you could call Blizzard and get things sorted out. "

I sent them an e-mail, hopefully they can sort it out.  My friend got his account hacked a while ago and whoever did it got his credit card information as well. "

Is this something that's common now? I don't want my account hacked :( "

" @EpicSteve said:

" @Br3adfan said:

" @EpicSteve said:

" I'm sure you could call Blizzard and get things sorted out. "

I sent them an e-mail, hopefully they can sort it out.  My friend got his account hacked a while ago and whoever did it got his credit card information as well. "

Is this something that's common now? I don't want my account hacked :( "

His neighbor who is a computer whiz did a scan on his computer and one of his WoW add ons was the culprit. I think it is pretty common now, especially since there are so many people to get personal information off of. "

Weird, I've played off-and-on for 3 years now and never had a problem. Just to make sure it never happens again, just get your addons through Curse, then  you don't have to worry about them causing problems.

"Yep. Always get your addons from a reliable source; Curse or WoWinterface. "

" @Br3adfan:  You're better off that way, man. Consider it divine intervention. "

If its a trial account then just make a new one. What kind of idiot hacks a trial account anyways, jesus crist they must be desperate. 
 
Blizzard is very good when it comes to dealing with accounts being hacked, just not so much after you have been hacked a few times. Thats when they start thinking they want to tell you to fuck off. If you did get hacked then odds are you have a keylogger on your pc. As far as I know they cant even get your full account(credit card, ect) info unless they are in deep on YOUR PC.  
 
9/10 times if you get hacked on WoW its because you have done something stupid.

No, that was just your guardian angel.  Don't go back.  Seriously, I have been there and I don't want to play an MMO ever again.

" @Br3adfan said:

" @EpicSteve said:

" @Br3adfan said:

" @EpicSteve said:

" I'm sure you could call Blizzard and get things sorted out. "

I sent them an e-mail, hopefully they can sort it out.  My friend got his account hacked a while ago and whoever did it got his credit card information as well. "

Is this something that's common now? I don't want my account hacked :( "

His neighbor who is a computer whiz did a scan on his computer and one of his WoW add ons was the culprit. I think it is pretty common now, especially since there are so many people to get personal information off of. "

Yep. Always get your addons from a reliable source; Curse or WoWinterface. "

" @thehideousshrew: I had a decent time during my WoW trial, but I soon realized that it would make it impossible for me to play all the other games I wanted to play. "

I was a fairly hardcore player for a few years, I did get hacked twice during that time. There pretty good about it, i called them told them what happened, they froze the account, changed passwords and restored all my items.

Bummer duder.

I have a friend who, everytime he gets his account back from Blizzard (which apparently takes a long time he waits like sometimes up to a month) it gets hacked again within the next week. It's to the point where he doesn't play anymore because he's pissed off with the hackers. It's weird though because when he got his account back once, his character had amazing gear and was level 80. lol

Do the people that get hacked just keep using whatever they were using while they got hacked? I freak the fuck out and format my drive and go barebones regarding any addons or apps that I'm not sure about. Then I continue changing all my passwords to really complicated ones. Even then I don't ever feel like I did enough to prevent anything from happening.

Stay away from gold selling sites, bud. Don't click on links in the Warcraft forums. 
 
@Atramentous said:

" @kerikxi said:

" @Br3adfan said:

" @EpicSteve said:

" @Br3adfan said:

" @EpicSteve said:

" I'm sure you could call Blizzard and get things sorted out. "

I sent them an e-mail, hopefully they can sort it out.  My friend got his account hacked a while ago and whoever did it got his credit card information as well. "

Is this something that's common now? I don't want my account hacked :( "

His neighbor who is a computer whiz did a scan on his computer and one of his WoW add ons was the culprit. I think it is pretty common now, especially since there are so many people to get personal information off of. "

Yep. Always get your addons from a reliable source; Curse or WoWinterface. "

Curse is not reliable, they should be last resort and you should scan anything you download from them before you use it. They often have rogue adds on the website also. "

" Yup.  I got banned from World of Warcraft and I've only had it for three days.  Actually it's safer to say that whoever was kind enough to hack my account got me banned.  Thankfully I was only using a trial card and whoever did it does not have my credit card information.  Anyway, to anyone who has experienced this sort of thing.  How good is Blizzard about recovering accounts after they have been hacked and banned? "

Hackings are better now than they were a year ago. Seemed like everyone knew someone who was hacked. Most of it was through keyloggings, meaning people were surfing sites where they weren't supposed to be. Bottom line, merge your account with Battle.net and get an authenticator. It's that simple.

I play WoW every now and then but it gets REALLY boring and other games are much better.    

My account got hacked a while back, but it was after I stopped playing and they didn't get any credit card info. But Blizzard seemed willing to help sort things out.

" @demontium said: 

I play WoW every now and then but it gets REALLY boring and other games are much better.    

cool story bro "

I just ran two full antivirus scans and there is nothing malicious on my computer.   I just hope Blizzard replies so I can get to the bottom of this.

Ok, you didn't get hacked, you either gave your password out to someone or you have a keylogger. If a person was capable of hacking anyone they wanted they wouldn't hack a 3-day old trial account, they would probably look up the hiscores and start from there. 

i think that you just got saved from one of the worst gaming communities around.  and from what you told me, which i will not disclose to the public,, sounds like you might have gotten yourself banned. hahaha     but what you did should not constitute a ban. its just the people who play WoW are so touchy most of the time that they complain if anything bad happens to them. anyways, think of it as a free ticket back into the social world

If you have an iphone you should get the blizzard authenticator application. Linking this to your account makes it a lot harder(if not impossible?) for someone to log into your account. You could of course buy the physical authenticator, the the iphone app is free.

well, they can't ever actually get your credit card info btw they can just use it for WoW cause blizzard will never show you the credit card number even if you log in.

That sucks balls.

@Br3adfan:

Whoever hacked your account saved you from wasting valuable time.

Maybe you should see this as a second chance to live in the real world. Fate seemed to do you a favor.

I got my account back, I guess some people just thought it would be fun to flag the noob for spamming (the reason I got banned for). 
 
Anyway, my friend just got hacked for the third time and lost all of his level 80 gear.  I think it's safe to say I am done with World of Warcraft after my free month is up.

A trail account being hacked? Who cares.....  

I don't even know who would bother going to the trouble, its not like your characters or items are worth anything. 
Also Trial accounts are free to set up so its not like the "hackers" can't already make themselves another free account.  
 
I doubt the honesty and authenticity of this post.

" @Br3adfan:  You're better off that way, man. Consider it divine intervention. "