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Bear with me, but why do so many people get hacked in WoW?
mrcalhou
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Everyday there seems to be someone complaining about getting hacked. I even know a guy in real-life that has been hacked. I'm assuming that it's because of the third party add-ons that are "required" to play, but is that the reason or is there something else?
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It's something else for sure. I know I've been hacked, and my friend in RL was hacked, as well as numerous people in game who I've chatted with. Not sure where the info is getting released from but it wouldn't surprise me if someone is hacking Blizzards account system or something akin to it. Too many get hacked who haven't played in years and that is just odd.
I hadnt made a battle.net account untill just yesterday when I needed to know from what months I played in wow for a thread, but making a battle acount and merging my wow account all went well and was smooth. Everything was still there just like iv always had it.
How many millions of subscribers are there?
And how many of them are bound to be idiots?
It's gonna happen. A lot.
A Cataclysm Beta Invitation in my Inbox? This is the third one! I hope this one isn't fake, I've already sent my information to all the others.
Wow! This site just gives me gold for money? Awesome!
Oh, boy! I can get people to power level me to 80! I'll just submit my account information.
It happens.
Oh, it happens.
It seems to me that there are so many ways for people to hack into your wow account. Between keylogger sites, phishing e-mails and in game spam offering free mounts its so easy to get hacked. It's gotten so bad that tickets take many days to be answered, it really is an epidemic. About 4 people in my guild including my wife were all hacked at some point. I think Blizzard should take some action at some point to protect their customers and in my opinion authenticators should be free.
your password has been changed...if you have not changed your password please fill out your account information to reset.
Three reasons.
One is some people are just fundamentally stupid.
The other is that Blizzard is nowhere near as secure, even with their "authenticator", as they would have you believe. No company is.
And when you combine those two reasons you get the third reason, fundamentally stupid people who also put blind faith in a company to keep them safe.
-Letting Derek Smart work on your game is like letting Osama bin Laden work in the White House. Something will burn.-
-And on the 8th day, man created God.-
If you send a email entitled "Blizzzard WoW's Best Mount Ever Giveaway" to some kid who plays WoW
u can easily scam him...
LOTRO player
Simple answer, the Blizzard system is vulnerable to a very simple modification to plain old brute force.
I think the term "being hacked" is truly a misnomer. Most the time it takes the place of a swear word like, that *exchange f-in with hacking* player he always hacks and kills me. You know, or that cat has mad hacks cause im always dieing hard core. hah, I think alot of it gets misconstrude this way.
But most the time its just trust that is taken over by some greedy person. Giving away your info probubly accounts for 99% of it, then the other 1 percent is accounts that have been breached through other means like fan sites or probubly using software to get into blizzards accounts sections some how.
To truly safeguard I think blizzard would need to impliment some type of realid system to not just there forums but there accounts as well.
Yep,
My account has been inactive for 4 months(as far as me using it) and I just got a "your account has been suspended for using a 3rd party hack" email from Blizzard.
someone obviously took my account for a joy ride..
Same here my account has been inactive for months and I get 2 or 3 emails a day like that.
my trial account is inactive for months and still i get email from bliazzard and "blizzard" about it XD
LOTRO player
I think we need to consider the fact that WoW brought in a lot of people who were not gamers and especially people who wanted to play it that aren't necessarily Internet Savvy...
How many housewives have I met that play WoW but barely know how to access the internet? Then of course there are tons of naive people that think just because something seems legitimate it must be so. Since the number of users who play WoW is so great even the simplest phishing email will garner some kind of result.
It's what happens when people want to just play WoW and don't care where the addons come from and believe things that in game people tell them. I'm sure there are quite a few people who get their kids to set the game up for them so that all they do is double click ont he shortcut on the desktop, type in their very basic pasword and burn through a few hours of game time.
No required quests! And if I decide I want to be an assassin-cartographer-dancer-pastry chef who lives only to stalk and kill interior decorators, then that's who I want to be, even if it takes me four years to max all the skills and everyone else thinks I'm freaking nuts. -Madimorga-
Wouldnt doubt for a second that this is true.
Im pretty good with the internet though and can usually spot a scam when I see one,but they managed to still get my account info.Like others have said,I wonder if there is some sort of leak coming from Blizzard itself.
Players do not get HACKED, they get PHISHED. The majority of all "hacking cases" are account phishers or people who click on malicious links who pose as blizzard or other entities that contain keyloggers which record info when typed.
There's two possible reasons. #1 addons. #2 wow players are newbs.
Why do so many people get hacked in WoW? Because its the most popular MMO. How? I'll leave that up the others.
I think its mostly because people get phished and people are stupid.
I dont have a WoW Account and never havee.
But yet i get emails sayying ive been banned even though i have never had an account. Then it takes me to some fake site that looks really legit and it ask me to enter my info so i can access my info and get it straightened out. But ive never had a WoW account so i know its fake and this is where i think most people get fulled into giving there information out.
Thats how i think it happens.
Also just to throw in big games like WoW and Aion the game themselves have been hacked and the results from this are hackers who have severs with lots of account information. Google it they actually found a sever with 60k aion and wow accounts with all the info needed to hack it.
You can not get compromised by add-ons unless there is an executable included that you or the add-on runs. If you install them manually and pay attention to what is in the file, this will never happen. Lua files can not contain viruses or Trojans, and they can not steal your log-in information because they are initialized after you log into the game.
I agree.
Interesting points in the thread. However, those e-mails you all are getting are not actually from Blizz, FYI.
The ammount of people who REALLY get hacked is close to 0.
The ammount of stupid people who click random links, visit random websites, downloads random shit etc. = Pretty much anyone who claims to get "hacked".
Riddle me this, if there actually were people out there who knew how to really hack, don't you think they would go for the characters of people in top guilds, who all sit at like goldcap and beyond?
No no! Surely the hackers go for the 14 yo kids who have nothing of value on their account! - Come on.
It's common knowledge that pretty much anyone who claims to get "hacked" has either clicked some fake link, downloaded something containing a keylogger or shares their account with someone else.