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.
World of Warcraft
Game » consists of 9 releases. Released Nov 23, 2004
World of Warcraft is an MMORPG that takes place in Blizzard Entertainment's Warcraft universe. At its peak, it boasted a player base of over 12.5 million subscribers, making it the most popular MMO of all time.
So I Got Banned
dangggg...that sucks.
someone on your computer must do a lot of illicit downloading.
or one of your friends hates you.
" @EpicSteve said:Is this something that's common now? I don't want my account hacked :(" 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. "This. I think you were saved. Seriously though that is insane. Didn't think it would be that quick for someone to get hacked.
" 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? "I play WoW every now and then but it gets REALLY boring and other games are much better.
" @Br3adfan said: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." @EpicSteve said:Is this something that's common now? I don't want my account hacked :( "" 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. "
" @EpicSteve said:Yep. Always get your addons from a reliable source; Curse or WoWinterface." @Br3adfan said: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. "" @EpicSteve said:Is this something that's common now? I don't want my account hacked :( "" 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. "
@kerikxi said:
"Yep. Always get your addons from a reliable source; Curse or WoWinterface. "
This, i used both of those when i played WOW, great programs.
" @Br3adfan: You're better off that way, man. Consider it divine intervention. "Indeed. consider yourself lucky you haven't become one of "them". I had a trial of WoW and all I got from the people on there was a barrage of abuse, mainley cosisting of "Fuck you trial account" or things along those lines but in L33t speak. Fuck 'em.
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.
" @Br3adfan said: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." @EpicSteve said:Yep. Always get your addons from a reliable source; Curse or WoWinterface. "" @Br3adfan said: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. "" @EpicSteve said:Is this something that's common now? I don't want my account hacked :( "" 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. "
" @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. "Well, my first time just put me off forever, looked like it could have been a lot of fun but just couldn't disassociate playing the game from being bullied by crazy uber-hostile, maniacal and territorial lemons. Maybe if I'd gotten in at the start it would have been different but unfortunately I'm just done with it now.
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.
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:
Curse is reliable. I'm pretty sure there site warns you to make sure the file your downloading doesn't have a hidden .exe ending and to be weary of what you download. And as long as you take a glance at the comments and make sure you don't download a mod that isn't too popular and has less than a few hundred d/l's." @kerikxi said:
" @Br3adfan said: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. "" @EpicSteve said:Yep. Always get your addons from a reliable source; Curse or WoWinterface. "" @Br3adfan said: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. "" @EpicSteve said:Is this something that's common now? I don't want my account hacked :( "" 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 said:
It's not hard. They just take the last armory update before your account was hacked and they'll restore it for you." 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.cool story bro
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
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.
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 while back a guy I know was hacked by chinese gold farmers. When he finally got his account back he found tons of valuable things in his bags and bank, including a lot of gold that the hackers had farmed. Hacking isn't always negative.
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.
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