tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36733892.post5797373943015584758..comments2024-03-22T11:13:26.808+00:00Comments on Life is a Mind Bending Puzzle: WoW account hacking and phishing - Some indirect evidencembphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09037758442729422620noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36733892.post-9604131873159519172011-03-18T00:05:48.368+00:002011-03-18T00:05:48.368+00:00@anonymous it sounds like you should look into tha...@anonymous it sounds like you should look into that security gadget you can get for your Wow account. My wife has one from her work and it seems pretty foolproof. You gave to enter the number on the gadget as well as your password. The number on the gadget changes in some pseudo random sequence so it would be very difficult to guess.mbphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09037758442729422620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36733892.post-66780165909407648012011-03-17T19:08:47.149+00:002011-03-17T19:08:47.149+00:00I've lost 2 WoW accounts to hackers/phishers, ...I've lost 2 WoW accounts to hackers/phishers, both of them had several max level characters with lots of time invested. I'm convinced of keyloggers that get your info from the login screen and from the WoW forums.<br /><br />My third account used a separate email used only for WoW, and that account still gets at least 10 phishing attempts in that email per day. PER DAY! There are literally thousands of these emails, that's all that's in the account!<br /><br />Besides that, I also started pasting my password at the login screen (I have it typed in a .txt document hidden in a whole paragraph of text), stayed away from the forums, and stayed paranoid as hell, and I managed to avoid having that one stolen from me. Thus far....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36733892.post-28938860095999236122010-08-22T18:30:27.298+00:002010-08-22T18:30:27.298+00:00It just lends further credence to my suspicion tha...It just lends further credence to my suspicion that someone within Blizzard is selling their customers' email addresses.<br /><br />That said, I still have not yet received any phishing emails in my WoW-only email account. When I do, I'll know for sure that it's Blizzard themselves who have a security leak.Cap'n Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15267651027289124037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36733892.post-2730107007689258422010-08-19T16:54:43.147+00:002010-08-19T16:54:43.147+00:00"The phishing attempt was crude but how the h..."The phishing attempt was crude but how the hell did these people get that email address?"<br /><br />Indeed. I've received three phishing WoW emails to my filter email in the last few days. That email was never used for anything other than a trial account four years ago.<br /><br />I almost wonder if these spammers/phishers are just carpet bombing hotmail email addresses, sending them out to one and all in the hopes that some fall on fertile soil.<br /><br />I think this because other emails I've used for other past WoW trials don't get those phishing emails, and the one I used for my "real" account (for all of a month) hasn't received phishing spam either. Maybe my mild online paranoia paid off there. (And yes, where possible, I use different emails, passwords and such. Sometimes, I have to write 'em down to keep everything straight, though.)Teshhttp://tishtoshtesh.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com