My 2v2 partner was not only hacked yesterday, but also deleted. This s**t is really getting to be a nuisance. Some of you may recall that my wife’s account was hacked last year. What made matters worse was the fact that she was guild banker at the time. You can imagine what happened to our guild vault… It wasn’t pretty. …
I’m a little more than pissed at the moment. Those of you that stopped by the site earlier today may have noticed that it was either down or not looking like its normal self. This was because there’s been a fox in the hen house.
I’m not entirely certain how this happened, but I have a pretty good idea. I’m also none too happy about it. Restoring this site and dealing with the aftermath of malicious 3rd party software was the absolute last thing I needed at the moment.
As you may have noticed, the posts have slowed down a bit over the past few days. I did put up a brief congratulatory post directed at Frostheim of WHU for his new role over at wow.com, but apart from that I’ve been kinda quiet.
Nope, not me. I wasn’t hacked. It was much worse actually.
Early Monday morning my wife decided to log on and knock out a few dailies. Being that she’s been using the same password for nearly her entire WoW tenure, it was more than a bit odd that she was unable to log in this particular morning.
Her desk is only about eight feet away from where I’m sleeping, but normally I don’t wake up if she’s on playing in the morning. Daddy needs his sleep. 😉 Anyway, I suppose I sensed something was not right, because I woke up and immediately saw the invalid login message on her screen. When I asked her what was up, she told me that she couldn’t log in for some reason.
My first thought was perhaps she had caps lock on by accident. Nope. I then told her to check the forums and see if they were currently experiencing authentication issues. Nope, nothing on the foums; technical support, realm forums or otherwise.
After we exhausted just about all of the possible causes, I thought oh no… maybe she’s been hacked! It seemed like a far-fetched possibility because why would anyone want to hack my wife’s account..? She’s about as casual as it gets. She’s not decked out in T9 or sitting on 100K gold. Hmmm…
Well, apparently there’s really no rhyme or reason behind the hacking. It just boils down to whose accounts are vulnerable. Perhaps some people get targeted specifically, but in my wife’s case, it was pure luck.
The reason I say “luck”, is because she is our guild’s banker.
