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Yes, Acct got hacked T.T

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Doublecast
#0 - July 9, 2010, 11:18 a.m.
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After all of my friends, all of my guild mates, I was the last to get hacked. Not one hour after I log off at 4am i get a call from my friend who just got off of work that I am online and taking the gbank for all it's worth. Try to log in and the very thing that is supposed to help is locking me out of my account. The authenticator has been linked to my account, no notice for me and yes it's still the same email address. yes I have subscription based anti-virus and 3 different forms of anti-malware. Starting to think its all Blizzards doing to actually have us buy the authenticators T.T Could use some help since i can't call in for another 4 hours please.
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Aredek
#10 - July 9, 2010, 2:38 p.m.
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I can assure you that Blizzard Entertainment has and will never compromise an account to promote Authenticator use. We dedicate countless resources combating malicious parties, developing security resources to help protect our players, and restoring accounts that have been compromised. It would be wholly counterproductive for us to compromise an account to sell a single Authenticator that is purposefully sold as cheaply as possible (or free on many mobile devices).

Signing up for Real ID will not result in your account being compromised. I'm terribly sorry to hear that your account was compromised, but the act of "signing up" for Real ID does not open you to up to any security threats. It may be easy to blame a new system for your compromise; however, you are only doing yourself a disservice by refusing to accept other more likely security possibility. I strongly encourage you to review the following resources for more information on how to secure your computer and protect yourself from phishing scams:

Account and Computer Security:
http://us.blizzard.com/support/article/30794

How to Identify Fake or Phishing Emails:
http://us.blizzard.com/support/article/25133

Fake E-mails from "Blizzard Entertainment":
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=965511383&sid=1

I appreciate your patience and hope to hear that we are able to recover your accounts in the very near future. Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to let us know.

Best wishes and good luck.