I checked my mail tonight to get an activation email sent though a site I found called mcschematics.com, which features downloadable schematics for MCEdit.
In my inbox I noticed two disturbing emails. One was from Paypal saying my WoW subscription has been canceled, and the other more frightening one about my account has been closed due to “Abuse of the Economy”, claiming I sold gold.
But just let me just set the record straight.. I never sold gold in my life, but I have bought some. And I bought it because I had no other choice.
I thought it was about that. That I bought gold. But what was kicking me was the fact they took this long to bust me with it.
So I replied to Blizzard, asking for proof that I exploited and what dates I have. And today I checked my email and saw several messages from Blizzard, mostly about “Character Restoration”. The reply from Blizzard was an apology, saying someone hacked my account, sold all of my stuff and tried to use my chars to sell gold, and was locked down to protect my security, and my bank account.
They canceled my Paypal subscription to protect me, and changed my password.
As I said, I got emails saying about Character Restoration. All of my gear and coin was returned to those chars, including my main.
Yet.. I’m noticing things I never got. It says it restored a shitload of cards that are redeemable at the Darkmoon Faire. I didn’t collect any of them. This means it’s quite obvious the hacker knew me. It makes me want to get back in and figure out who did it.
It also looks like all of my chars were deleted, or on the verge of being deleted.
But at least I never got banned for buying gold. The whole thing was a big misunderstanding. But it would not had happened if my password was more secure.
To me, I find my account not really valuable enough for someone to want to take the time to hack. Obviously that’s not the case anymore. Because of this, I will use a harder to crack password.
I’m glad this mess is over, yet angered someone would do this. I was about to throw away everything WoW in my room to say I was done with it. Tomorrow I will do the steps to re-secure my account and make my password harder to crack, as I said.
I’m also going to sign up for that authenticator again. Whatever the cost to protect myself. This time, it’s personal.