hacked round three.

I got hacked again.

This new thing that they're doing with the authenticators is really nice and really annoying at the same time. I have a laptop, and when I go places, sometimes I like to log on to WoW on my laptop. Well, twice now, I've been locked out of my account for "unusual access patterns" or some such thing. So today I took off my authenticator. I guess I took it off around 3pm. Josh and I were out tonight. We came back around 9:30pm. He logged onto WoW first and saw that I was online. I had just changed my password back to an old one too, so I thought maybe it was Todd. I went to log on, and the hacker hadn't changed my password, so that cemented my thought of it being Todd. I was logged into battle.net at that time, so I went to change my password, and in the time that I had taken to login to WoW, they had gone and changed it. They sold all of my stuff before Josh's eyes.

Luckily, they've made it super easy to recover your account now. I just wish I'd reacted faster and I'd thought of all the necessary steps to take. I didn't take any of them (putting my authenticator back, changing my password, going to the hacked support site) until it was too late. I guess it was mostly because I stupidly thought it was someone I knew.

So anyway, there's some advice for you. If you catch yourself being hacked, go to battle.net/recover as fast as you can.

My only annoyance about it all is that the last time I got hacked, I talked to a GM about it and got my stuff back, all within 20 minutes of opening the ticket. Now with the new recovery system, it says it's going to take 10-12 hours.

Oh well. I had other stuff I needed to do tonight. But I had just finally gotten my item level high enough to do troll instances on Adelaide before I left tonight. Ugh.