WoW accounts being stolen & their stuff being sold

[CrAz3D]

http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=187002835

If I knew more about WoW, or played it, I might be more touched by it...
It does suck, though.

[Sidoh]

I read this earlier today too.  That would suck ... I'd cry if I lost my WoW account.

[CrAz3D]

How much time/effort have you put into it?

[Sidoh]

How much time/effort have you put into it?

Tons.

/played

Total time played: 71 days, 19 hours, 54 minutes, 28 seconds
Time played this level: 43 days, 10 hours, 34 minutes, 31 seconds

And that's my Priest alone...

[CrAz3D]

71!
I don't think I've done anything but LIVE for more than 71 days!

[Towelie]

I bet it would come close if you added up the times youve jacked off.

[Joe]

Mine would probably be <1 day.

[dark_drake]

I read this earlier today too.  That would suck ... I'd cry if I lost my WoW account.

Don't worry, I'd be there to comfort you 

But seriously, all your accounts are belong to us.

Anyways, it's never fun for the people who login and realize they've lost all their stuff.  I, in fact, had a few friends in SWG who lost their perfect lightsabers (Pre-CU) because of stuff like this.

[Sidoh]

Wow, that sucks.  In WoW, soulbinding protects you from most of that.  I thought it was kind of funny how the article said the script kiddies would take your weapons.  What are they going to do, vendor it?  That's pointless.  It's not even worth the risk.

I'd imagine the only thing they do (if they don't try to sell it on eBay) is send your gold to another person.

[dark_drake]

Wow, that sucks.  In WoW, soulbinding protects you from most of that.  I thought it was kind of funny how the article said the script kiddies would take your weapons.  What are they going to do, vendor it?  That's pointless.  It's not even worth the risk.

I'd imagine the only thing they do (if they don't try to sell it on eBay) is send your gold to another person.

No, they'd just delete everything.  Pearls, in the ls, are pretty much soul-bound once a Jedi tunes them.  It typically happened out of malice.  Also, most Jedi had massive amounts of rare items that weren't soulbound and those would come up missing, too.

[Quik]

Wow, that sucks.  In WoW, soulbinding protects you from most of that.  I thought it was kind of funny how the article said the script kiddies would take your weapons.  What are they going to do, vendor it?  That's pointless.  It's not even worth the risk.

I'd imagine the only thing they do (if they don't try to sell it on eBay) is send your gold to another person.

I agree that most things are soul-bound, but some things could be sent/traded to people for cash off-site (sent in-game for paypal or something). Blizzard's stance against the profiting of items in RL makes it a hard target for hackers for the same reason that it's hard to make money (without the sale of an entire acct) for the acct owner.

[Sidoh]

No, they'd just delete everything.  Pearls, in the ls, are pretty much soul-bound once a Jedi tunes them.  It typically happened out of malice.  Also, most Jedi had massive amounts of rare items that weren't soulbound and those would come up missing, too.

The drive behind this movement is profit, not malice.  I'll definitely refuse to dismiss the possiblity that they'd do this, though.

I agree that most things are soul-bound, but some things could be sent/traded to people for cash off-site (sent in-game for paypal or something). Blizzard's stance against the profiting of items in RL makes it a hard target for hackers for the same reason that it's hard to make money (without the sale of an entire acct) for the acct owner.

The stuff that matters is soulbound, if you ask me.  Gold can be replaced.  Full Tier 2 armor can't be in the same amount of time.