So my brother's WoW account got hacked...

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ussfletcher

ussfletcher

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the funny thing is he hadn't used it in 8 months, and whoever hacked it turned it into a mining bot and paid to reactivate it and set it for automatic subscription renewal. Pretty bizarre IMO.
 
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i don't play wow..so i don't understand how they paid without leaving a trail. stolen credit card?
 
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Soundmanred

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Cogman

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Hacked? No. Someone guessed his weak password or he told them his weak password.

People, unless blizzard has some major security issues, it isn't "hacking."

Just thought I would vent a little. (we ARE on a tech forum after all :)).
 
cKGunslinger

cKGunslinger

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Same thing happened to me last month. 4-month cancelled account was reactivated by someone in Korea and starting farming. They never bothered to change the password, so I got it back, got all my shit back via GM, kept all the extra gold, and have a paid month of playtime.

:coolsunglassesguysmileyhere:
 
Freshgeardude

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This is so ironic. this happened to me aswell.

I quit in december 08 and i tried to check my acct a few days ago for shits an giggles.

so for a small backstory i had an 80 dwarf hunter, 70 dranei shaman, 70 gnome rogue, 70 dra deathnight. 40 dra mage, and a bank character

The person who hacked my account, during may of this year, deleted my rogue and bank char and made my hunter into a horde orc on a different server.


They also payed for 2 months so I get to use it for free till the 26th. they are also restoring everything for me.
 
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nageov3t

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maybe someone keylogged the username/password and sold the "account" to a buyer who didn't realize tht it was stolen.
 
ussfletcher

ussfletcher

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Just an FYI his password is strong and I'm the only other one that knows it. It was reactivated by some Chinese people, and apparently there are tons of accounts getting stolen because they figured out an exploit in Blizzard's forgot password system.
 
Wyndru

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It's strange how almost all wow hacked accounts are inactive for some period of time. How would anyone know the account hasn't been logged into lately?

Paranoia is getting the best of me I'm logging on to my accounts now, since I haven't played in a couple of months.
 
TallBill

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Cogman said:
Hacked? No. Someone guessed his weak password or he told them his weak password.

People, unless blizzard has some major security issues, it isn't "hacking."

Just thought I would vent a little. (we ARE on a tech forum after all :)).
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Social hacking is still hacking.
 
thescreensavers

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Wyndru said:
It's strange how almost all wow hacked accounts are inactive for some period of time. How would anyone know the account hasn't been logged into lately?

Paranoia is getting the best of me I'm logging on to my accounts now, since I haven't played in a couple of months.
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lol I haven't played in almost a year now, I got 2 80s and a 74 warrior which I stopped mid leveling.

I played sometime in Naxx and did TOC right when it came out. Game is way too easy now.
 
Cogman

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TallBill said:
Social hacking is still hacking.
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There is no such thing as "social hacking". Its a term that people who don't know what "hacking" is try to invent and put up. Anything which you could call "social hacking" would fit squarely in already existing mischievous terms such as phishing.

If it doesn't involve exploiting a software vulnerability (or coding for fun), it isn't hacking.

People use the term "hacked" when their accounts are stolen to make the situation sound worse then it is. They also use it to try and remove any blame from themselves. Other terms might give them more culpability in the problem.
 
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nageov3t

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Cogman said:
There is no such thing as "social hacking". Its a term that people who don't know what "hacking" is try to invent and put up. Anything which you could call "social hacking" would fit squarely in already existing mischievous terms such as phishing.

If it doesn't involve exploiting a software vulnerability (or coding for fun), it isn't hacking.

People use the term "hacked" when their accounts are stolen to make the situation sound worse then it is. They also use it to try and remove any blame from themselves. Other terms might give them more culpability in the problem.
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it's a meaningless distinction for 99% of the world.

why bother being specific when there's no benefit to it? say "hacked" to an average person and they'll probably know what you mean; that's not necessarily true if you say you were cracked, phished, keylogged, etc.
 
Sea Moose

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Cogman said:
There is no such thing as "social hacking". Its a term that people who don't know what "hacking" is try to invent and put up. Anything which you could call "social hacking" would fit squarely in already existing mischievous terms such as phishing.

If it doesn't involve exploiting a software vulnerability (or coding for fun), it isn't hacking.

People use the term "hacked" when their accounts are stolen to make the situation sound worse then it is. They also use it to try and remove any blame from themselves. Other terms might give them more culpability in the problem.
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Cogman

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loki8481 said:
it's a meaningless distinction for 99% of the world.

why bother being specific when there's no benefit to it? say "hacked" to an average person and they'll probably know what you mean; that's not necessarily true if you say you were cracked, phished, keylogged, etc.
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No, they won't know what I mean, because the term has been butchered to the point of pretty much being meaningless. Shows like CSI et al. use it in sentences like "I just hacked into the NSA" which makes people think that unauthorized logins qualifies as hacking.

Why bother being specific? Because I hate the people that have butchered computer terms to the point where they are meaningless.
 
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darkxshade

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Cogman said:
There is no such thing as "social hacking". Its a term that people who don't know what "hacking" is try to invent and put up. Anything which you could call "social hacking" would fit squarely in already existing mischievous terms such as phishing.

If it doesn't involve exploiting a software vulnerability (or coding for fun), it isn't hacking.

People use the term "hacked" when their accounts are stolen to make the situation sound worse then it is. They also use it to try and remove any blame from themselves. Other terms might give them more culpability in the problem.
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That's how words are redefined... they evolve based on their usage and expand in meaning to encompass a broader scope of actions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hack_%28technology%29

"In a similar vein, a "hack" may refer to works outside of computer programming."



Just face it, the original definition just doesn't hack it anymore. :ninja:
 
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