The longer hackers sit on info, the more likely it is that the info will become worthless with people adding an authenticator or changing their password.
I don't really see what you guys would think Blizzard would earn from stealing your stuff and money, it is virtual stuff they could create for free anyways. They have no motive, only things to lose. Some players get so upset that they quit when they lose their stuff and that means a large sum of cash just go down the drain for them.
There is of course a chance that one or several Blizzard employees are doing this by themselves to earn extra money, but I think phising programs and suspicious add ons is the real problem here.
There will always be a lot of people who tries to earn money on stuff like this. Some of them are really good on what they do too.
Change your password often and have a long one. Never use add ons and avoid download pirate stuff on the same computer you play on. Never answer any questions about your account no matter who it is from. Avoid suspicious webbsites and use a browser that is safe.
Personally I would avoid Firefox because it is far to common today, making it a target for those people. Chrome or Opera is a better choice.
I might be slightly paranoid but I never got anything hacked ever (as far as I know at least).
I am more paranoid than you. I use a different PC for browsing, very old PC, and connected to a separate isp. My game clusters are linked to via router to a separate ISP. No disk swapping between PCs. That way, hackers can hack my web surfing PC, and all they can steal is my password to these forums.
Never use wow forum for posting, just read without logon.
The longer hackers sit on info, the more likely it is that the info will become worthless with people adding an authenticator or changing their password.
Wrong, hacker sits on it not because they sit on it. They sit on it b/c they do not yet have an order placed to them for gold. Why would they hurry and log onto a stolen account? Steal the gold and then what? Where do they place it?
If they place it in their account but not selling it, one complain from the original account holder and blizz will recover the gold and ban the hacker account. Almost within hours.
There have been a lot of people getting scam email after the battle.net merge. Some people only use their email for wow only and still get these emails.
Some one selling email address' for money?
Plausible deniability for reasons people are getting hacked?
You tell me.
This is a big world in which there are lots of wonders. The fact that you or many do not know what has happened =/= it must be blizz.
In the ancient days, people cannot explain thunder and rain, so it must be Zeus.
There have been a lot of people getting scam email after the battle.net merge. Some people only use their email for wow only and still get these emails.
Some one selling email address' for money?
Plausible deniability for reasons people are getting hacked?
You tell me.
This is a big world in which there are lots of wonders. The fact that you or many do not know what has happened =/= it must be blizz.
In the ancient days, people cannot explain thunder and rain, so it must be Zeus.
So its easier to believe that all the folks getting hacked all got stupid after the battlenet change than it is to believe Blizzard had a security issue? Interesting.
WOW isnt great because it has 12 million players. WOW has 12 million players because its great.
There have been a lot of people getting scam email after the battle.net merge. Some people only use their email for wow only and still get these emails.
Some one selling email address' for money?
Plausible deniability for reasons people are getting hacked?
You tell me.
This is a big world in which there are lots of wonders. The fact that you or many do not know what has happened =/= it must be blizz.
In the ancient days, people cannot explain thunder and rain, so it must be Zeus.
So its easier to believe that all the folks getting hacked all got stupid after the battlenet change than it is to believe Blizzard had a security issue? Interesting.
Oh you got solid evidence that all those hacking occur during the bnet change, or that it was found out during the bnet change?
In the recent years, we received a lot of reported case of new disease, that means suddenly the world is vested with new disease springing out all of a sudden, or that a better medical technology and integrated society or world wide reporting systems makes them visible to us average folks?
Give you another day to day example. Shops or supermarkets run stock take every few days or weeks. Even with perfect computerised inventory and point of sales, missing items or lost goods sprang up during every stock taking exercise. It must be some insiders job stealing while they stock take. It must be, by your logic.
What you cannot fathom, is what you cannot fathom. Blaming someone is easy, but cowardice is it.
There have been a lot of people getting scam email after the battle.net merge. Some people only use their email for wow only and still get these emails.
Some one selling email address' for money?
Plausible deniability for reasons people are getting hacked?
You tell me.
This is a big world in which there are lots of wonders. The fact that you or many do not know what has happened =/= it must be blizz.
In the ancient days, people cannot explain thunder and rain, so it must be Zeus.
So its easier to believe that all the folks getting hacked all got stupid after the battlenet change than it is to believe Blizzard had a security issue? Interesting.
Oh you got solid evidence that all those hacking occur during the bnet change, or that it was found out during the bnet change?
In the recent years, we received a lot of reported case of new disease, that means suddenly the world is vested with new disease springing out all of a sudden, or that a better medical technology and integrated society or world wide reporting systems makes them visible to us average folks?
Give you another day to day example. Shops or supermarkets run stock take every few days or weeks. Even with perfect computerised inventory and point of sales, missing items or lost goods sprang up during every stock taking exercise. It must be some insiders job stealing while they stock take. It must be, by your logic.
What you cannot fathom, is what you cannot fathom. Blaming someone is easy, but cowardice is it.
I just find it interesting that some jump to defend Blizzard on this issue. People make mistakes all the time but I guess its an impossibility to think someone at Blizzard made one or made some money on the side? Yes, yes much safer for fans of Blizzard to beleive that. Beleive what makes you comfortable, its what people tend to do.
WOW isnt great because it has 12 million players. WOW has 12 million players because its great.
So its easier to believe that all the folks getting hacked all got stupid after the battlenet change than it is to believe Blizzard had a security issue? Interesting.
Perhaps you have not considered just how many people changed their username loging to email accounts that they have used repeatedly all over the internet where they are easily accessible.
If half of the wow playerbase started posting their usernames on the websites they visit we would call them stupid. Please tell me how it is any different that people chose a username in the form of an email address that they have used all over the web?
Yes tons of people all got stupid at the same time, because they choose to use a login name that is already compromised. Yes a hacker only needs to hack their email account to get access to their wow account now.
It isn't like the hacked accounts are something that just started with battle.net. It has been a very long standing problem for blizzard. That makes it very improbable for the leak to be on blizzards end, because of the length of the problem, the variety of failures, the diversity of users and situations. We are talking years upon years of people claiming they did not do anything and the problem must be on blizzards end.
Somehow it doesn't make much sense to see an increase in hacked accounts when players are given the ability to choose a new username and somehow conclude that players must have gotten smarter about security and the failure is on blizzards end.
There have been a lot of people getting scam email after the battle.net merge. Some people only use their email for wow only and still get these emails.
Some one selling email address' for money?
Plausible deniability for reasons people are getting hacked?
You tell me.
Oddly enough, my WoW email is used for WoW only and I have never received a any spam emails to that email account. However I have received tons at the email account I use to register at various sites including this one. I also don't use any add-ons.
There have been a lot of people getting scam email after the battle.net merge. Some people only use their email for wow only and still get these emails.
Some one selling email address' for money?
Plausible deniability for reasons people are getting hacked?
You tell me.
This is a big world in which there are lots of wonders. The fact that you or many do not know what has happened =/= it must be blizz.
In the ancient days, people cannot explain thunder and rain, so it must be Zeus.
So its easier to believe that all the folks getting hacked all got stupid after the battlenet change than it is to believe Blizzard had a security issue? Interesting.
Oh you got solid evidence that all those hacking occur during the bnet change, or that it was found out during the bnet change?
In the recent years, we received a lot of reported case of new disease, that means suddenly the world is vested with new disease springing out all of a sudden, or that a better medical technology and integrated society or world wide reporting systems makes them visible to us average folks?
Give you another day to day example. Shops or supermarkets run stock take every few days or weeks. Even with perfect computerised inventory and point of sales, missing items or lost goods sprang up during every stock taking exercise. It must be some insiders job stealing while they stock take. It must be, by your logic.
What you cannot fathom, is what you cannot fathom. Blaming someone is easy, but cowardice is it.
I just find it interesting that some jump to defend Blizzard on this issue. People make mistakes all the time but I guess its an impossibility to think someone at Blizzard made one or made some money on the side? Yes, yes much safer for fans of Blizzard to beleive that. Beleive what makes you comfortable, its what people tend to do.
I did not choose to believe in anything, until there is evidence. So far, there is no evidence either way, so I remain neutral.
As for defending blizz, do I need constantly bash blizz or raise ungrounded conspiracy theories in order to prove I am not a blizz fans. So you are either against blizz or you are a fans. Nothing in between? Can i stay neutral? Is this a world war in which I must take one side and fight the other side to death?
we do not know how hacks happen, how about you show us more factual information relevant? one thing to note, there are more reports of accounts thefts, because a lot of inactive account holders go back to register only to found the account stolen. They discovered it because they go back after months of inactivity. Many ppl reported accounts stolen after bnet, but, many people got accounts stolen everyday. without the bnet event, they blame something, with the bnet event, it is easy for them to find an excuse to blame. bnet registration require a browser, how many browsers on normal day to day pcs are infected? how many careless ppl register their bnet over unsafe public PCs? we never know.
we need factual proofs that the incidence of hacking are related to the bnet event. obviously, facts like this are hard to assemble, so this remains a mystery in history, unless you wise mister have a solid backed theory to show us.
We can go about creating scenarios as to why people get hacked forever, and ive seen severl reasons, phishing scams, add ons, using the same email for several sites to name a few. At the end of the day the simple answer us usually the correct one. Blizzard dropped the ball, simple as that. It would interesting to see if people would come to the defense of SOE or Cryptic if say SOE forced people to join say something called Battlequest and rash of hacks appeared shortly after. Hope it doesnt happen but I suspect the reaction would be quite different on this site.
WOW isnt great because it has 12 million players. WOW has 12 million players because its great.
I am of the opinion that the fault is not exclusivly one or the other but rather a combination of mistakes and assumptions by both parties.
Yes accounts were hacked before the Bnet username change over. However the number of complaints from before the implimentaion of the switchover was a trickle compared to the flood afterwards. It would also appear as though alot of hacked accounts are those who have been inactive for a period of months to years. Seeing as how the idea behind hacking accounts is to make QUICK and EASY money sitting on potential income for such periods doesn't fit the business model of such operations. Afterall part of the users resonsability for account security is to not share USERNAME or password with others and the changeover exposed alot of usernames to potential abuse through little fault of the user.
I am also of the opinion that the internet is a potensial minefield for evan the most savvy of individuals. All it takes is a momentary lapse of judgement when your tired and a couple of clicks or a misstype and suddenly the impossible just happened. I know I'm not an IT expert and to me those who claim they are simply just don't know how much they have no clue about. So it is perfectly reasonable for me to accept that in all likelyhood the millions of people who play WoW or have played WoW have potentially exposed thier account to potential tampering at some point. The Bnet email address username just made it easier to do so.
So like most arguements there are 3 sides. The Activision/Blizzard side, the users side and the truth which is somewhere in the middle of the 2 extremes.
The lesser of two evils is still evil.
There is nothing more dangerous than a true believer.
We can go about creating scenarios as to why people get hacked forever, and ive seen severl reasons, phishing scams, add ons, using the same email for several sites to name a few. At the end of the day the simple answer us usually the correct one. Blizzard dropped the ball, simple as that. It would interesting to see if people would come to the defense of SOE or Cryptic if say SOE forced people to join say something called Battlequest and rash of hacks appeared shortly after. Hope it doesnt happen but I suspect the reaction would be quite different on this site.
Why? the simple answer is usually correct? the simplest way to explain solar features is that the sun and the moon rotates around us. It is simple so it must be correct?
No arguements because you are just telling me you believe blizz drop the balls, no facts, no evidence, not even a reason why
I do not pretend to know what happened, I do not pretend that I have a reason to blame any party.
As I said before, if people (even those who think something fishy is going on) think this is blizzard doing this, that is just silly.
It could very well be employees of blizzard who were leaving/quitting/raging at how much they had to work and how hard it was with no help. Totally seperate from the company, just single people doing this to get back at them. I believe that is a much more likely thing then them sitting in meetings saying "Okay, this week we will sell accounts that haven't been used in 1 year, and their email starts with C".
We can go about creating scenarios as to why people get hacked forever, and ive seen severl reasons, phishing scams, add ons, using the same email for several sites to name a few. At the end of the day the simple answer us usually the correct one. Blizzard dropped the ball, simple as that. It would interesting to see if people would come to the defense of SOE or Cryptic if say SOE forced people to join say something called Battlequest and rash of hacks appeared shortly after. Hope it doesnt happen but I suspect the reaction would be quite different on this site.
How is that the simple answer?
The rash of hacked accounts existed long before battle.net merger occured. [Dec 2009]
Blizzard introduced the authenticator in June of 2008.
The rash of hacked accounts predates the battle.net merger by at least a year and a half. Longer in reality, since the creation of authenticators would have been addressing a problem that was already large enough and long standing enough that it required a solution of this magnitude.
The simple answer is that end users have been insecure with their information for years and years on end and that is not limited to just wow accounts. Those same users for years and years on end have been claiming conspiracy and lack of security on the part of blizzard. Most of which have displayed zero knowledge of the most basic computer security concepts, but they know it must have been someone else.
As I said before, if people (even those who think something fishy is going on) think this is blizzard doing this, that is just silly.
It could very well be employees of blizzard who were leaving/quitting/raging at how much they had to work and how hard it was with no help. Totally seperate from the company, just single people doing this to get back at them. I believe that is a much more likely thing then them sitting in meetings saying "Okay, this week we will sell accounts that haven't been used in 1 year, and their email starts with C".
That is the scenario I go with as well. Someone upset and leaving or just trying to make an extra dollar on the side. I cannot see how Blizzard themselves could gain from doing such a thing but its a definite gain for them to keep it quiet.
WOW isnt great because it has 12 million players. WOW has 12 million players because its great.
I would wager that almost every email you people are receiving about your accounts being compromized are themselves scam emails. They are just phishing attempts... Unfortunately they are obviously tricking a lot of you.
If people would stop giving their information away so easily, these people would stop trying to scam everyone under the sun.
I would wager that almost every email you people are receiving about your accounts being compromized are themselves scam emails. They are just phishing attempts... Unfortunately they are obviously tricking a lot of you.
If people would stop giving their information away so easily, these people would stop trying to scam everyone under the sun.
Off course they are but many people find out they're hacked by trying to log on . And many are cautious enough to not follow links on such mails and yet find out they got hacked for real . And its the fact even cautious people get hacked that makes it smelly . What cracked me up is when a guildie noticed he got hacked while having an authenticator(to be clear, the guildie had the authenticator , so its not the typical : hacker attached an authenticator to the account ) attached to his account. I mean , that must have been one desperate hacker with nothing to do.
Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt. Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.
I think all the people in this thread who think all the people got hacked because they are not careful about internet security should, just for fun, log into their own battle.net account to see if an authenticator has magically been attached to their account...
I got a really believable email the other day saying my account was compromised and my account would be locked. Since then, I have gotten 6 other emails...a few saying that I got into Cataclysm beta, but those are easy to tell if they are fake by logging into your account.
But the believable email even I almost fell for. Luckily I didn't follow the link in the email and logged into my account like normal and it was fine. But I was like, WTF? I'm going to be banned? did I get hacked? When I went back to the link, I noticed that when I hovered my mouse over it...the link popup thing said it was a different link, than what was shown in the email.
I have definitely gotten a lot more phishing emails lately, though...I've gotten more this month than when I started WoW, and I've been playing since release (off and on)
I got a really believable email the other day saying my account was compromised and my account would be locked. Since then, I have gotten 6 other emails...a few saying that I got into Cataclysm beta, but those are easy to tell if they are fake by logging into your account.
But the believable email even I almost fell for. Luckily I didn't follow the link in the email and logged into my account like normal and it was fine. But I was like, WTF? I'm going to be banned? did I get hacked? When I went back to the link, I noticed that when I hovered my mouse over it...the link popup thing said it was a different link, than what was shown in the email.
I have definitely gotten a lot more phishing emails lately, though...I've gotten more this month than when I started WoW, and I've been playing since release (off and on)
Hackers are desperate in trying to steal accounts. They are hoarding stolen passwords, hoping to have gold reserve for sale during the peak population with next expansion.
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Really? Looked to me like it was voluntary to get a bonus, or they would do it for you after the deadline....
The longer hackers sit on info, the more likely it is that the info will become worthless with people adding an authenticator or changing their password.
F2P/P2P excellent thread.
http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/282517/F2P-An-Engineers-perspective.html
I am more paranoid than you. I use a different PC for browsing, very old PC, and connected to a separate isp. My game clusters are linked to via router to a separate ISP. No disk swapping between PCs. That way, hackers can hack my web surfing PC, and all they can steal is my password to these forums.
Never use wow forum for posting, just read without logon.
Wrong, hacker sits on it not because they sit on it. They sit on it b/c they do not yet have an order placed to them for gold. Why would they hurry and log onto a stolen account? Steal the gold and then what? Where do they place it?
If they place it in their account but not selling it, one complain from the original account holder and blizz will recover the gold and ban the hacker account. Almost within hours.
This is a big world in which there are lots of wonders. The fact that you or many do not know what has happened =/= it must be blizz.
In the ancient days, people cannot explain thunder and rain, so it must be Zeus.
So its easier to believe that all the folks getting hacked all got stupid after the battlenet change than it is to believe Blizzard had a security issue? Interesting.
WOW isnt great because it has 12 million players. WOW has 12 million players because its great.
Oh you got solid evidence that all those hacking occur during the bnet change, or that it was found out during the bnet change?
In the recent years, we received a lot of reported case of new disease, that means suddenly the world is vested with new disease springing out all of a sudden, or that a better medical technology and integrated society or world wide reporting systems makes them visible to us average folks?
Give you another day to day example. Shops or supermarkets run stock take every few days or weeks. Even with perfect computerised inventory and point of sales, missing items or lost goods sprang up during every stock taking exercise. It must be some insiders job stealing while they stock take. It must be, by your logic.
What you cannot fathom, is what you cannot fathom. Blaming someone is easy, but cowardice is it.
I just find it interesting that some jump to defend Blizzard on this issue. People make mistakes all the time but I guess its an impossibility to think someone at Blizzard made one or made some money on the side? Yes, yes much safer for fans of Blizzard to beleive that. Beleive what makes you comfortable, its what people tend to do.
WOW isnt great because it has 12 million players. WOW has 12 million players because its great.
Perhaps you have not considered just how many people changed their username loging to email accounts that they have used repeatedly all over the internet where they are easily accessible.
If half of the wow playerbase started posting their usernames on the websites they visit we would call them stupid. Please tell me how it is any different that people chose a username in the form of an email address that they have used all over the web?
Yes tons of people all got stupid at the same time, because they choose to use a login name that is already compromised. Yes a hacker only needs to hack their email account to get access to their wow account now.
It isn't like the hacked accounts are something that just started with battle.net. It has been a very long standing problem for blizzard. That makes it very improbable for the leak to be on blizzards end, because of the length of the problem, the variety of failures, the diversity of users and situations. We are talking years upon years of people claiming they did not do anything and the problem must be on blizzards end.
Somehow it doesn't make much sense to see an increase in hacked accounts when players are given the ability to choose a new username and somehow conclude that players must have gotten smarter about security and the failure is on blizzards end.
Oddly enough, my WoW email is used for WoW only and I have never received a any spam emails to that email account. However I have received tons at the email account I use to register at various sites including this one. I also don't use any add-ons.
I did not choose to believe in anything, until there is evidence. So far, there is no evidence either way, so I remain neutral.
As for defending blizz, do I need constantly bash blizz or raise ungrounded conspiracy theories in order to prove I am not a blizz fans. So you are either against blizz or you are a fans. Nothing in between? Can i stay neutral? Is this a world war in which I must take one side and fight the other side to death?
we do not know how hacks happen, how about you show us more factual information relevant? one thing to note, there are more reports of accounts thefts, because a lot of inactive account holders go back to register only to found the account stolen. They discovered it because they go back after months of inactivity. Many ppl reported accounts stolen after bnet, but, many people got accounts stolen everyday. without the bnet event, they blame something, with the bnet event, it is easy for them to find an excuse to blame. bnet registration require a browser, how many browsers on normal day to day pcs are infected? how many careless ppl register their bnet over unsafe public PCs? we never know.
we need factual proofs that the incidence of hacking are related to the bnet event. obviously, facts like this are hard to assemble, so this remains a mystery in history, unless you wise mister have a solid backed theory to show us.
We can go about creating scenarios as to why people get hacked forever, and ive seen severl reasons, phishing scams, add ons, using the same email for several sites to name a few. At the end of the day the simple answer us usually the correct one. Blizzard dropped the ball, simple as that. It would interesting to see if people would come to the defense of SOE or Cryptic if say SOE forced people to join say something called Battlequest and rash of hacks appeared shortly after. Hope it doesnt happen but I suspect the reaction would be quite different on this site.
WOW isnt great because it has 12 million players. WOW has 12 million players because its great.
I am of the opinion that the fault is not exclusivly one or the other but rather a combination of mistakes and assumptions by both parties.
Yes accounts were hacked before the Bnet username change over. However the number of complaints from before the implimentaion of the switchover was a trickle compared to the flood afterwards. It would also appear as though alot of hacked accounts are those who have been inactive for a period of months to years. Seeing as how the idea behind hacking accounts is to make QUICK and EASY money sitting on potential income for such periods doesn't fit the business model of such operations. Afterall part of the users resonsability for account security is to not share USERNAME or password with others and the changeover exposed alot of usernames to potential abuse through little fault of the user.
I am also of the opinion that the internet is a potensial minefield for evan the most savvy of individuals. All it takes is a momentary lapse of judgement when your tired and a couple of clicks or a misstype and suddenly the impossible just happened. I know I'm not an IT expert and to me those who claim they are simply just don't know how much they have no clue about. So it is perfectly reasonable for me to accept that in all likelyhood the millions of people who play WoW or have played WoW have potentially exposed thier account to potential tampering at some point. The Bnet email address username just made it easier to do so.
So like most arguements there are 3 sides. The Activision/Blizzard side, the users side and the truth which is somewhere in the middle of the 2 extremes.
The lesser of two evils is still evil.
There is nothing more dangerous than a true believer.
Why? the simple answer is usually correct? the simplest way to explain solar features is that the sun and the moon rotates around us. It is simple so it must be correct?
No arguements because you are just telling me you believe blizz drop the balls, no facts, no evidence, not even a reason why
I do not pretend to know what happened, I do not pretend that I have a reason to blame any party.
As I said before, if people (even those who think something fishy is going on) think this is blizzard doing this, that is just silly.
It could very well be employees of blizzard who were leaving/quitting/raging at how much they had to work and how hard it was with no help. Totally seperate from the company, just single people doing this to get back at them. I believe that is a much more likely thing then them sitting in meetings saying "Okay, this week we will sell accounts that haven't been used in 1 year, and their email starts with C".
How is that the simple answer?
The rash of hacked accounts existed long before battle.net merger occured. [Dec 2009]
Blizzard introduced the authenticator in June of 2008.
The rash of hacked accounts predates the battle.net merger by at least a year and a half. Longer in reality, since the creation of authenticators would have been addressing a problem that was already large enough and long standing enough that it required a solution of this magnitude.
The simple answer is that end users have been insecure with their information for years and years on end and that is not limited to just wow accounts. Those same users for years and years on end have been claiming conspiracy and lack of security on the part of blizzard. Most of which have displayed zero knowledge of the most basic computer security concepts, but they know it must have been someone else.
That is the scenario I go with as well. Someone upset and leaving or just trying to make an extra dollar on the side. I cannot see how Blizzard themselves could gain from doing such a thing but its a definite gain for them to keep it quiet.
WOW isnt great because it has 12 million players. WOW has 12 million players because its great.
I would wager that almost every email you people are receiving about your accounts being compromized are themselves scam emails. They are just phishing attempts... Unfortunately they are obviously tricking a lot of you.
If people would stop giving their information away so easily, these people would stop trying to scam everyone under the sun.
Off course they are but many people find out they're hacked by trying to log on . And many are cautious enough to not follow links on such mails and yet find out they got hacked for real . And its the fact even cautious people get hacked that makes it smelly . What cracked me up is when a guildie noticed he got hacked while having an authenticator(to be clear, the guildie had the authenticator , so its not the typical : hacker attached an authenticator to the account ) attached to his account. I mean , that must have been one desperate hacker with nothing to do.
Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt.
Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.
I think all the people in this thread who think all the people got hacked because they are not careful about internet security should, just for fun, log into their own battle.net account to see if an authenticator has magically been attached to their account...
I got a really believable email the other day saying my account was compromised and my account would be locked. Since then, I have gotten 6 other emails...a few saying that I got into Cataclysm beta, but those are easy to tell if they are fake by logging into your account.
But the believable email even I almost fell for. Luckily I didn't follow the link in the email and logged into my account like normal and it was fine. But I was like, WTF? I'm going to be banned? did I get hacked? When I went back to the link, I noticed that when I hovered my mouse over it...the link popup thing said it was a different link, than what was shown in the email.
I have definitely gotten a lot more phishing emails lately, though...I've gotten more this month than when I started WoW, and I've been playing since release (off and on)
Hackers are desperate in trying to steal accounts. They are hoarding stolen passwords, hoping to have gold reserve for sale during the peak population with next expansion.