Nothing like being hacked and receiving a suspension to boot.
I’d assumed Blizzard would have removed my ban by now, but I suppose their support queue must be pretty long at the moment.
Just to recap, here’s a quick rundown of what’s taken place up until now…
My 2v2 partner, fellow officer and core raider of our guild, not only had his account ransacked by hackers, but they went so far as to delete his mains. I mean… c’mon… Once you get all of the riches, what’s the point in actually deleting the characters, apart from pure asshattery (new word btw)..?!
Shortly after this event, I posted the news here on the site. It was mainly me venting about this injustice, but I also wanted to get reader opinion about enhancing my own security. The response was a resounding yes when asked if I should definitely look into an authenticator. So, I went ahead and bought one.
Prior to this, I had previously thought an authenticator was a needless device for us Mac users.
/facepalm
I certainly found out the hard way, that Macs are not invulnerable to compromises.
Anyway, I went ahead and ordered the authenticator. Well guess when it showed up..?
About 6 hours after I was hacked. Isn’t that somethin’..?!
I was hacked between approximately 4am and 5am this past Friday morning. The authenticator arrived in the mail at about 10:45am.
Four plus years of non-compromised WoW activity, only to result in a hack and ban, only after I finally decide to bump up security. Unreal…
The reason I was banned is because the hacker was flagged for excessive trading of in-game gold between accounts. Obviously, they were using my character as a mule of some sort. Perhaps they weren’t too bright about it, I dunno. That was maybe my saving grace though, because it led to Blizzard immediately shutting down my account and hopefully preventing them from doing further damage.
Needless to say, Blizzard was unable to remove my suspension even after they learned of what happened, so they stuck me in a queue along with however many others in a similar boat. So, here I sit… hacked and banned, through no fault of my own… *sniff*
I have no idea what awaits me once I do finally log in. All I know is that they lightened the load in our guild bank somewhat, but thankfully didn’t get anything of substantial value. Our GM was cautious enough to limit withdrawls of the guild’s most precious items to only the banker and himself. Smart move.
It’s not like I’m over here twitching or anything because I can’t log in, but it sure does suck. I mean, I’ve taken a few weeks off here and there before with no problem, but these circumstances just plain suck.
The night before my hacking I respecced to Marksmanship for PvP. I was looking to have some fun with the spec, write up a guide and work on some MM Power Auras. That was my plan for this past weekend. I was foiled!
Well, my 72 hours should be up shortly, so I suppose tomorrow will be the moment of truth. I really hope I get all my stuff back. 
UPDATE: Since I knew Garwulf was still relatively intact, I didn’t really concern myself with looking up any of my other toons on the armory. Well, tonight I did. It seems as if they deleted my 80 Death Knight and 74 Druid. Those fargin’ iceholes..!
