Argh!

[ninjaslug]

I got an email last night saying that my WoW account had been suspended because of "Reason for Closure: Terms of Use Violation -- Exploitative Activity: Unauthorized Cheat Programs

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[sjo]

This happened to a friend of mine up in Salem, too. Sounds like there is hacking afoot.

[ninjaslug]

Or ahoofing.

[anais_pf]

Obviously you have been very bad, and need to be spanked.

[divalion]

Cripes, you're now the THIRD person I know including myself who's been hacked on WoW. And all since the switch to Battlenet logins...TOTAL SUCK.

[garrun]

"Exploitative Activity: Unauthorized Cheat Programs" - are there authorized cheat programs?

But seriously, hacking has been around for ages. My Boss used to play, and got hacked back in 2007. This has been going on for a while... basically, the hacker can sell your stuff, get gold, and sell it off for real money in no time. Some Guilds are now requiring you to have an Authenticator to be a member, because if you get hacked, the hacker can raid the Guild Bank and sell it all off.

When playing a game requires an encryption key to log in, it's no longer a game. A real-world business thrives on this MMO, and it's not (just) the MMO itself.

[ninjaslug]

Yup - the most ironic thing was I started playing WoW in 2005. I stopped last Sept.

During that time, account was never touched by anyone other than me, tho I'd heard horror stories from other people. I was inactive for a few months, and the acct is hacked (I wonder how they got around paying for it... that might be the unauthorized cheat stuff).