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Bluddragon

Council

0. Bluddragon has been hacked » March 8th, 2010, 12:23 pm

I'm back in - putting a trouble call to a GM.

Thanks to Despina for IMing me on Facebook.

I didn't even have a battlenet account - that's how long I have been not playing and somehow I got hacked. I wasn't even subscribed and they got in and resubscribed me.

Since I haven't been playing - that means it wasn't a keylogger or some app that I downloaded.

"To dilute the will to win is to destroy the purpose of the game. The is no subsitute for victory (not even honor points)" - Douglas MaCArthur

Bossform

Raid Officer

1. Re: Bluddragon has been hacked » March 8th, 2010, 1:26 pm

There's only one logical explanation; your wife can no longer be trusted...

Keep us posted. I haven't logged in yet but apparently it was a LOT of stuff.

And hey! How's non-wow goin?

"i said shh" - Thus sayeth the Forgefist

Myrdraal

2. Re: Bluddragon has been hacked » March 8th, 2010, 7:17 pm

You can message me for safer porn sites

~Through violence and horror shall honour arise~

theremover

3. Re: Bluddragon has been hacked » March 8th, 2010, 7:31 pm

Wasn't blud one of the ones arguing about how safe IE is?

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RIP 2009

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Myrdraal

4. Re: Bluddragon has been hacked » March 8th, 2010, 11:02 pm

I don't think so. The Internet won't let you put IE. And safe in the same sentence.

~Through violence and horror shall honour arise~

theremover

5. Re: Bluddragon has been hacked » March 9th, 2010, 1:43 am

Myrdraal wrote:
I don't think so. The Internet won't let you put IE. And safe in the same sentence.

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The Remover™/S~newave/Mnemostara*
RIP 2009

They were the gentleman assassins, the underground ambassadors of death
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Removers

Bluddragon

Council

6. Re: Bluddragon has been hacked » March 9th, 2010, 6:46 pm

Lets put it this way - I haven't logged into WoW in something like six months...maybe longer. I'm thinking the last time I logged in was during the summer.

My WoW password is unique. I don't use it for any other game. So - if it was a keylogger, then they had to have keylogged it last summer, then hold on to it and wait to use it. Definitely possible and impressive. Ran all the security scans and everything seems to come up clean.

I also was not subscribed. When I got back in and changed my password - the credit card to which I was subscribed was not mine. My guess is a visa gift card. Thank you hacker for my one free month of play.

I got all my crap back - but it's all crap. They took my elf boots. A lot of what they took didn't make a lot of sense...except for the bank stuff. Boss will have to let me know if the bank items were returned to the bank. If not, I'll put in another ticket.

As for me - I play EVE since I can play that AFK - I'm taking five graduate course so I'm basically doing that all the time.

"To dilute the will to win is to destroy the purpose of the game. The is no subsitute for victory (not even honor points)" - Douglas MaCArthur

theremover

7. Re: Bluddragon has been hacked » March 9th, 2010, 7:52 pm

In anycase, that stuff is never fun.
The elf boot comment made me laugh though.

It could have been any number of things. Can't know for sure now. It isn't always a keylogger, and could have been something extremely subtle or obvious. I made a mistake ONCE involving a message notification from myspace. I clicked the link to check it, not realizing it was just a clone site/"phishing" setup.
It could have been something like this where they got access to an email address and did a password recovery. It could have been something much simpler. Just running software and scanners is a good start, but won't solve problems. My advice would be to do all your scans and then just change passwords on everything you log into and go from there. It's a good start.

The topic of security came up often when I was playing, and we've joked about it on the forums too a bit. If anyone is facing issues or a bout of sudden paranoia, i'm sure there's a couple people who could help you out. It's mostly common sense stuff but sometimes we don't have the whole picture or do dumb things without realizing or whatever.

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The Remover™/S~newave/Mnemostara*
RIP 2009

They were the gentleman assassins, the underground ambassadors of death
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Removers

Avellin

Raid Officer

8. Re: Bluddragon has been hacked » March 9th, 2010, 8:09 pm

I'm 99% sure the CC used was stolen.. They used a stolen one to pay for the transfer of my mage to another server. A few weeks later Blizzard sent me an email sayin my account would be suspended because the CC used was disputed and rejected. I contacted blizzard and told them what happened and they cleared it.

These hackers won't ever pay money out to hack these accounts other then maybe some fee at an internet cafe in China.

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Sclye

Council

9. Re: Bluddragon has been hacked » March 9th, 2010, 8:24 pm

NOOOOOO, NOT THE ELF BOOTS!

Contact Myrdraal for running list of my mistakes ....

forgeefist

10. Re: Bluddragon has been hacked » March 10th, 2010, 12:34 am

its amazing to me what people will do for some 6 bucks per k of gold....and 95% of the time the hacker gets banned and....then they do it again...........................

I have never been hacked...well there was this one time but it was my little bro and he was mad at me........I welcome all hackers to attempt to break my account!

ohh and dont mind me...just trollin

Bandle

11. Re: Bluddragon has been hacked » March 10th, 2010, 3:51 am

I think I've still got your account info, do I get a prize if I 'hack' in?

Avellin

Raid Officer

12. Re: Bluddragon has been hacked » March 10th, 2010, 1:39 pm

forgeefist wrote:
its amazing to me what people will do for some 6 bucks per k of gold....and 95% of the time the hacker gets banned and....then they do it again...........................

Look at it this way.

1. The hacker gets an order for $50 for 20k gold and gets his money.
2. The hacker look at his list of accounts and picks one from the server the person buying the gold is on and logs in.
3. The hacker vendors everything, AH more, cleans out a gbank and then sends the gold over to the person buying the gold.
4. The hacker then uses the account to spam Org and SW with BUY GOLD ONLINE ads.
5. The account gets reported as hacked and Blizzard shuts down the account.
6. The logs are then checked and Blizzard sees who the gold was sent to and blocks their account also.
7. Blizzard restores the hacked account and all items in gbank.
8. Person buying gold looses out on $50 and his account.
9. Hacker gains $50 and looses nothing.
10. Profit....
11. Goto step 1.

That's the process..

The hacker never gets banned... Just the person buying the gold.

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Bossform

Raid Officer

13. Re: Bluddragon has been hacked » March 11th, 2010, 5:34 pm

Got a Gbank full of stuff in my mail yesterday, and returned over 18% of it to the guild. The rest is fees and emotional compensation.

"i said shh" - Thus sayeth the Forgefist

theremover

14. Re: Bluddragon has been hacked » March 11th, 2010, 5:40 pm

Bossform wrote:
Got a Gbank full of stuff in my mail yesterday, and returned over 18% of it to the guild. The rest is fees and emotional compensation.

Ha!

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The Remover™/S~newave/Mnemostara*
RIP 2009

They were the gentleman assassins, the underground ambassadors of death
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Removers

Centuri

Officer

15. Re: Bluddragon has been hacked » March 11th, 2010, 9:13 pm

Bossform wrote:
Got a Gbank full of stuff in my mail yesterday, and returned over 18% of it to the guild. The rest is fees and emotional compensation.

I think the guild owes you a bit more as far as emotional compensation is concerned.

Somewhere else with someone else.

theremover

16. Re: Bluddragon has been hacked » March 11th, 2010, 10:43 pm

I think ary's presence cancels it out.

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The Remover™/S~newave/Mnemostara*
RIP 2009

They were the gentleman assassins, the underground ambassadors of death
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Removers

Bluddragon

Council

17. Re: Bluddragon has been hacked » March 13th, 2010, 6:23 pm

if anyone was curious what was taken from my bank and person, Blizzard was nice enough to send a full list. List is amusing not only for all the crap I have but what crap they decided to take and what they decided to leave.

I was most upset about the taking of my Barov Peasant Caller - my favorite weapon.

Alterac Valley Mark of Honor x6
Amulet of the Torn-heart
Aquadynamic Fish Attractor x3
Arathi Basin Mark of Honor x6
Arcanite Fishing Pole
Arctic Fur x2
Arena Master
Arena Master
Arena Master
Arena Master
Auchenai Key
Baked Manta Ray x18
Barov Peasant Caller
Black Dragonscale x2
Black Jelly x3
Bone Fragments x29
Captain Rumsey's Lager x2
Captain's Key
Core Hound Pup
Crystal Infused Leather x18
Crystallized Air x6
Crystallized Earth x9
Crystallized Life x2
Crystallized Shadow x15
Crystallized Water x14
Dark Iron Scraps x60
Deadly Poison VIII x13
Drakkari Offerings x3
Eternal Water x3
Evil Bat Eye x15
Eye of the Storm Mark of Honor x6
Father Flame
Fel Healthstone
Fel Hide x16
Flamewrought Key
Frostwolf Insignia Rank 6
Gargoyle's Mace
Glowing Scorpid Blood x4
Great Feast x20
Greater Planar Essence x7
Green Winter Clothes
Heavy Borean Leather
Hook of the Master Angler
Imbued Netherweave Bag
Instant Poison VIII
Ironweb Spider Silk x2
Isle of Conquest Mark of Honor x6
Jormungar Scale x5
Key of Time
Knothide Leather x8
Knothide Leather Scraps x7
Light Silithid Carapace x4
Living Essence
Mind-numbing Poison x15
Nat Pagle's Extreme Anglin' Boots
Nerubian Chitin x3
Nether Dragonscales x11
Oracle Secret Solution x4
Potion of Speed x15
Powerful Mojo x5
Preserved Holly x9
Primal Bat Leather x4
Primal Earth
Primal Life x3
Primal Nether
Primal Shadow x8
Primal Tiger Leather x17
Primal Water x7
Reinforced Junkbox
Reservoir Key
Romantic Picnic Basket
Rugged Armor Kit x6
Rugged Hide
Rugged Leather x15
Runic Healing Potion x2
Scarab of Isanoth
Shadow Silk
Sharpened Fish Hook x3
Silithid Chitin
Skinning Knife
Stone Keeper's Shard x270
Strand of the Ancients Mark of Honor x6
Sunfury Signet x4
Swiftness Potion x2
Thick Spider's Silk x4
Titan-Forged Rune of Accuracy
Tua'kea's Breathing Bladder
Violet Badge
Warpforged Key
Warsong Gulch Mark of Honor x6
Wind Scales x3
Winter Boots
Wintergrasp Mark of Honor x18
Wound Poison VII x12
Zaxxis Insignia
Skill(s) Restored:
Points Restored:
48233 honor points

"To dilute the will to win is to destroy the purpose of the game. The is no subsitute for victory (not even honor points)" - Douglas MaCArthur

Avellin

Raid Officer

18. Re: Bluddragon has been hacked » March 13th, 2010, 7:06 pm

They sell everything they can to get as much gold as possible.. soulbound items are vendored and everything else AH

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Bluddragon

Council

19. Re: Bluddragon has been hacked » April 7th, 2010, 12:03 am

Hacking update - got this email from blizzard. Apparently the credit card they used after they hacked my account was hacked as well. I responded. Will be interesting to see if they will be able to resolve it.
____________________________________________

Greetings,

Access to the World of Warcraft account xxxx, has been temporarily disabled
due to a dispute filed against the account's past payments. This dispute was
filed by the bank, credit card provider, or financial institution associated
with the payment on the account. As a result of this dispute, funds paid on the
account were withdrawn from Blizzard Entertainment. This is known as a
"chargeback".

The total withdrawn by this chargeback was: $14.99.

The account is now considered by Blizzard to have a negative balance, and will
be unavailable for play until any and ALL outstanding balances have been repaid
to Blizzard. If more than one chargeback email was sent for a single account,
all chargebacks will
need to be repaid before the associated account can be unlocked unless the
chargeback was for an electronic expansion purchase which was removed from the
account.

Repayment can be made by contacting our Billing department at 1-800-592-5499.
Hours: 8:00 AM � 8:00 PM Pacific Time 7 days a week

We have also provided the following numbers for our international customers:
- Australia: 1-800-041-378
- Singapore: 1-800-2549-9273
- Mexico: 001-888-578-7628
- Argentina: 0800-333-0778
- Chile: 1230-020-5554

Other International callers without access to our 800 numbers may use:
1-949-955-0283

If you wish to repay the chargeback(s) via a US money order, please visit
http://us.blizzard.com/support/article/chargeback.

Please feel free to contact Billing at billing@blizzard.com if you need
additional information.

Until the amount which was withdrawn from the chargeback is repaid, the World of
Warcraft account will remain indefinitely unplayable. Please do not reply to
this email, as you will receive no further response.

Thank you for your time.

Regards,
Blizzard Billing & Account Services
http://www.blizzard.com/support/wowbilling/

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