Originally Posted by neverg
I've been hacked some months ago (more than 1 year ago probably) and I still don't have a clue how.
I consider myself a pretty competent IT user. I'm 28 years old and I've been using computers since the Spectrum and so on. I'm a Computer Engineer, I do some programming, use constantly more than 1 OS (Windows 7 right now and several versions of Linux since Mandrake was still alive), don't use iE for years since version 5 (currently using Chrome and Firefox sometimes), always use a Antivirus on Windows Systems (Microsoft Security one right now) and even so I was hacked. Don't have a clue how. Never bought gold. Didn't give my password to no one. My WoW password changes from time to time and it's not equal to any other password I use anywhere. It has several type of chars and numbers. I only go to common websites like MMO-Champion, WoWhead, Curse and WoWInterface. I had upated some addons from Curse the day before I was hacked. Was that it? Will never know...
After that I go an authenticator, was before Blizzard started offering the pet as a reward for having one. But in that week I took noticed of several people I know that was also hacked.
So calling someone stupid for being hacked don't knowing how and taking all security measures one can is offensive. After I was hacked I did an Internet AntiVirus scan, scanned with several searching tools, including spybot, adware, malbytes, etc, etc, no results.
Bought an authenticator and since then had no problems.
My case took about 1 week to get solved. Recovered everything at least. But scared me a bit.
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I feel you and went through the same. You did nothing wrong. Something slid in via Flash most likely. I have not had the problem either since I turned on the authenticator on my phone. The key-fobs tend to die, and after 6 months Blizz makes you buy a new one, so be warned. i was unlucky, plenty of people have been lucky and theirs is working fine after a year or more. I have reimaged my machine and will most likely ONLY visit wowwiki and other info sites now from a virtual machine as I believe it was one of those info sites that had the offending flash for me. Even with the authenticator I don't want the code lurking - my brother turned his off for 1 day yo transfer his authenticator from iPhone to another phone - he got hit while it was turned off!