How I’d Hack Your Weak Passwords

Re:How I’d Hack Your Weak Passwords by Luyt on Thursday March 25, 2010 @09:55AM (#1218426)

This is probably how my World of Warcraft account got 'hacked' ('cracked' would be a better term).

I was using almost the same user/password combination for both WoW itself and WoW-related forums and guild websites. Stupid, stupid, stupid me. One sunday I logged in only to find all my level-80 WoW characters naked and skint.

Luckily Blizzard was able to restore my stuff, and since then I use an Authenticator.

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Re:How I’d Hack Your Weak Passwords by Qz on Thursday March 25, 2010 @12:54PM (#1218820)

Mine got 'hacked' a couple months back. Too bad I had stopped playing 2 years earlier and their attempt to charge character transfers were on an expired card. But now I get no end of junk emails about how I need to secure my non-existent WoW account.

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