Account got hacked yesterday

[MamiTomoe]

Likely lent out his account to multiple "trusted" friends and never changed his pass. Or was a bought account.

[Eunys]

Grats you trusted you info to somebody and they jacked your stuff now you cry hack and hope to get it back while you scare people.

[neoreturn]

Not sure how i got hacked. I had the same experience from rift. At that time thounsands account got hacked and Rife immediately implemented email check system before anyone can transfer large mount gold in game. I also had norton guard system installed in PC. I don't think your account is safe if you don't use one time password. They hacked me only because I had lots of Gil. With 20 year IT prof experience, I am pretty sure it isn't key logger. my account info got leaked from somewhere else. I like blizzard security system. they will lock your account if someone else try to login far from your home town.

[Evilized]

I like blizzard security system. they will lock your account if someone else try to login far from your home town.

SE does this too, at least they did in beta when someone i know was letting people use their extra account to try out the game. they got an email each time someone from a new IP tried logging in and the original account owner had to authorize each new IP.

[Jennestia]

I like blizzard security system. they will lock your account if someone else try to login far from your home town.

They already do this - I couldn't log into my sister in law's account without it stating "suspicious behavior" and locking the account down till you reset the password through an email link and that would then mean someone has access to your emails as well, so you may want to check your PC..

Otherwise, the only way someone can get into your account without resetting it:

1. They already had access via you letting them on and having them reset it, which ties their IP to your account and prevent lock out. I know this first hand because I do it with my family.
2. They know enough about you to reset your info through SE.

Otherwise, it sounds like either someone you trusted or you got logged, there doesn't appear to be a large breech in SE or we'd hear more about it by now.

[Eunys]

Not sure how i got hacked. I had the same experience from rift. At that time thounsands account got hacked and Rife immediately implemented email check system before anyone can transfer large mount gold in game. I also had norton guard system installed in PC. I don't think your account is safe if you don't use one time password. They hacked me only because I had lots of Gil. With 20 year IT prof experience, I am pretty sure it isn't key logger. my account info got leaked from somewhere else. I like blizzard security system. they will lock your account if someone else try to login far from your home town.

I love when people lie, and/or think being in the IT field means anything. You messed up nobody hacked you. I've played EQ from launch and FFXI, WoW, SWTOR, Rift, Tera and more and not once had account issues ever. People lose their account when they give away their account info, or download crap they shouldn't like bots and other cheats. Really wish these companies would start charging people to restore their accounts so they would learn to stop being dumb with their account info and stop cheating.

[Burnphase]

I love when people lie, and/or think being in the IT field means anything. You messed up nobody hacked you. I've played EQ from launch and FFXI, WoW, SWTOR, Rift, Tera and more and not once had account issues ever.

You didn't play rift at launch then. they had an issue with their security token system that allowed people to log into random players account by randomizing the key generated for each player. This allowed them to log into an account without needing a password.
Check the rift posting history, the player "Manwitdaplan" discovered this loop hole and trion took down the rift server on a friday evening to implement the fix, it still took over a week to restore all the account affected by this.
99% of the time it's the players fault they got hacked, but this one instance in Rift it was not.

[Lexxuk]

I also had norton guard system installed in PC. ~ They hacked me only because I had lots of Gil. With 20 year IT prof experience,

20 year professional IT experience and using Norton? Anyone in the IT industry knows to avoid Norton like the plague, even when it's given away free from your ISP. All the cool kids use Kaspersky.

Query 1 : How did they know you had "lots" of gil (you didn't though, 2m gil is peanuts on a Legacy server)
Query 2 : How do you know your money is gone?
Query 3 : How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

[TonyUK]

I guess we have to take your word for it that you have a legacy account. Wouldn't be surprised if this post was trolling

[rabbitzero]

The more common of these are when the company gets hacked, if they have lax security and bad methods of password storage. It doesn't matter then how complex your password is. I also remember when adobe flash had a problem that allowed it to put keyloggers on, so there were adds on WoW sites that made you vulnerable. It lasted for like a week before being fixed. So besides being careful, there are still ways to get your account hacked that you can't do much about.