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D3 account banned, guess what I found....
So a funny little story about Diablo 3 I thought I'd share with you.
I purchased Diablo 3 on release and played it some in the first weeks, ultimately leaving the game in the beginning of Act IV and never returned. At that time I was about level 20 or 30 I think, no special gear and no money since I had spent them all on upgrading for future crafting (dunno why, I was and am a noob!)
Today I decided that I wanted to give it another go since I have some friends who still play it, and I thought that I might find it fun to play with them. Only problem is that they're max level and do end-game stuff. But when I logged into my Battle.net account, I found that my D3 account was banned. I thought it quite weird but did recall that I may have received some mails in the past about it being banned, which I ignored because "i was never gonna play that game again".
Anyway, I wrote to the support and after some hours I received a kind (and very standard) response that the account had been hacked but was unbanned for me. I may or may not have changed the password at some time since I played D3, but I don't recall ever having lost control with the account, thus the password was never changed by the hackers. In the mail I received from Blizzard I was provided a link that I could use to rollback my characters. I was about to do it when I decided to make sure that I was actually missing anything and that I wasn't rolling back unneccessary.
So I logged into the game, and guess what I found! My main character that I had played to Act IV was now level 60 (paragon level 61, which from what I can read takes some time to reach). The character had four legendaries and a lot of other rare stuff and about 19.500.000 gold!!
I didn't take me long to conclude that my account had been used for gold farming and I rejoice at the thought of some damn gold sellers having actually given me a free power level and lots of gold. I hope they lost of lot of work when the account was banned. I would never reach such level by myself but now that they have given me the opportunity to jump in and join my friends, I will certainly do it!
See you all in-game 
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Aloha Mr Hand !
Well, I can't prove my statement about my character before the hacker came around, but I can at least prove how it looks now
Good one
I'll probably never know how it happened, but I won't deny that I may be my own fault.
To answer your question, here's what they wrote:
"After a thorough investigation, I come with great news! I have reviewed our logs of your account, and was able to determine that the account was closed as a result of being compromised. That being the case, the closure has been reversed and access has been restored. Please carefully read the paragraphs below as they will explain how to get your characters back their pre-compromised state."
From experience I can tell everyone that this happens quite often and is true. My gf got her WoW account hacked when we stopped playing. Came back to tons of gold and a fully leveled character which she wasnt. I had my account hacked a few times back during BC and I caught it during the hacker was trading stuff, my character was apparently a pack mull. I gained access with bags completely full and tons of mail and a crap ton more gold. He only had control for about an hour, I got kicked off and wasnt able to log back on because they changed the password so quick.
Blizzard also doesnt give a crap what happens to stuff which I love. If you had 100g before you got hacked and now 100,000 gold, they dont care, it came from somewhere lol.
uh...lol... yes you can and yes there are.
Change.
Your.
Password.
No you can't. Gold and the new legendaries from the expansion are all untradable.
Blizzard has garbage account protection. 2 of the 5 friends I know that played WoW were hacked and couldn't get their accounts reactivated. my account was also hacked after I stopped playing 2 weeks after I bought it.. canceled sub and few months later I get email account was hacked.
Seems that hackers use the account info they steal and go after "abandoned" accounts for their gold farming so they don't have to buy a new game code when banned.
They actually have the most advanced system now.
RMT sites still sell gold by via in-game color dyes. 20k for each stack of 100.
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Really? Gold is not that useful in D3 anymore anyway. The game is really about leg drops. Gold is useless except for rerolling an attribute.
I still have like 250M gold and i doubt i will ever use it all.
The security of your account credentials outside of their servers is your responsibility, if some one gets into your account, it means you were slack at some point.
The only time its the mmo companies fault is if their databases get compromised, and despite what tin foil hat people tell you, that is NOT common.
The common problem is people using the same damm password, or using crappy web based emails that DONT support 2 factor authentication along with not using the 2 factor authentication the game service comes with.
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