Looks like there has been some issues with World of Warcraft being hacked. Some people may have woken up today to find themselves banned or have their accounts drained. This is because the most recent edition of Adobe Flash has some flaw in it and it has been exploited. From an older post about issues they've had with Flash on the WoW forums:
A recent vulnerability has been discovered in popular web-content delivery program Adobe Flash, and it could potentially be used to target World of Warcraft players and accounts. The newest available version of Adobe Flash, version 9.0.124.0, does not contain this vulnerability, and we recommend that everyone upgrade their Flash player as soon as possible by visiting the Adobe.com download page at the link below.
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash
In addition, to avoid exploitation of this vulnerability, we have temporarily disabled the ability to post hyperlinks in our forums. Any links will need to be copied and pasted into a browser. We’ll continue to evaluate any potential security threats and take any steps necessary to ensure a safe and fun environment.
Jonah Falcon over at Game Stooge, had his account hacked and it wasn't even activated. This means it was not phished, but happened on Blizzard's side. Lucky for him he didn't use his credit card for his account, but be careful if you do and make sure you update your Flash player.
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Not that this even remotely excuses the actual culprits (the gold farmers/sellers), who're nothing less than the lowliest scum of the online gaming world. But if I were you, I'd run malware scans, check to see what websites you visited recently, and what emails/in-game whispers from random strangers claiming to be "Blizzard" that you followed.
Also, if you like your WoW account, get an authenticator. Seriously.
The Blizzard Authenticator is sold at-cost, and they make no profit from it.
On the other hand, the logistics of ensuring that all 10+ million accounts have one, should your proposal be adopted, would be hellish. They aren't about to distribute them for free.
Given how *insane* this problem is, I can only imagine that they're trying to come up with better ways to protect accounts, but right now the authenticator is about 99% failsafe. The biggest problem is people unwilling to purchase it (for what amounts to pocket change).
there had been some flash vulnerability issues in the last weeks.....
hope adobe gets their ass on it. Macromedia never had such problems.
You're quite correct--it protects the WoW account, but not the rest of the PC.
However, that's also the point at which it ceases to be Blizzard's problem. It's no less disgusting that this happens, of course, and people shouldn't *have* to be this paranoid in order to simply play a game. A side effect of WoW's popularity, though, is that accounts/virtual property within have real-world market value.
That's a whole problem in and of itself. I don't think there are any substantial laws that cover virtual property theft. Should there be? Would they even hold water in China (where most of these operations are based)? I guess that's another debate.
The problem is SO rampant, that they started selling these Authenticators at-cost and eliminated shipping fees. They've even hinted at making Authenticators required for Cataclysm expansion. THAT says something to me. You'd imagine your account would be safest in the developer's care. Not so, it seems. I'll get one eventually, I just hate that its become nothing short of a requirement nowadays and that my $15/Month isn't enough to cover the cost of one of the devices.
I guess I should log on to my account tonight to see if I'm still intact. Haven't played in about a month(too many good console games to catch up on, plus Mass Effect 1&2 FTW!).
Also, Little Mac rocks my world.
what's the matter? afraid sony will pull funding and review copies if you post the best story of the year?
pick up your balls and load that cannon.
I have a Blizzard Authenticator, and I only wish I could get one for my credit cards, bank accounts, etc. Two factor security is awesome.
Given how much time people put into their WoW accounts, reminders of how easily that effort can be spoiled are always good thing. Hopefully you'll get a few more people to lock up their stuff with authenticators.
It's probably good that articles like this be posted, whether or not they concern old issues. The theft of WoW accounts is still just rampant in that game. Regardless of your opinion of WoW itself, I don't imagine too many would disagree that it sucks to have some asshole steal your game progress because they can sell it.
You don't need an authenticator, you just need to stop being careless with your usernames and passwords.
Regrettably, it's not quite that simple. There's an incredibly lucrative industry in the trading of WoW gold/accounts--that part is true, directly due to the game's size and popularity, and no other MMO can currently quite match just how lucrative it is.
However, it's not just people being careless with their passwords and such--if that were the case, it'd not be nearly so big a problem, as that kind of direct scam is usually easy to spot. No, the people that orchestrate these account thefts have entire rackets of false websites meant to imitate the Battle.net login, giant mailing lists of email addresses to send falsified emails disguised to look like they're from Blizzard reps (with things like "it has come to our attention that your account is in violation of such and such policy, please go to this site to verify"), and in-game ads for account and gold sales that lead to sites that plant keyloggers on the PCs of anyone who visits.
These, too, are things that could be avoided with a little bit of savviness. Unfortunately, the vast majority of players (who remain generally casual) don't stop to consider this sort of thing even exists, and as a result are the ones who end up getting hacked.
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