One sure way to NOT get hacked is use Protonmail and ONLY use it for your battle.net account, never use it for sending or use it to give to other websites, only wow, you will never get hacked.
Old news. Obvious StereotypeâŚ
Stereotypes exist because thereâs enough of a trend for it to become a stereotypical association.
Stereotypes generally arenât entirely without their merit, good or bad. Do you think the stereotype about Chinese goldsellers hacking accounts, liquidating the gear, advertising RMT sites, and stealing the gold came out of thin air? No, it was enough of a pattern it got associated with them.
This isnât saying all Chinese are hackers, but pointing out a very clear pattern and trend. Similar to Ragnaros players. It wasnât just decided weâd view Ragnaros and Azralon as servers that are full of bad players. We noticed a lot of bad players who refuse to obey mechanics, or who do dumb things in m+ keys, sperg out then rage quit the group over one wipe usually came from those 2 servers.
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The only way youâd get hack is because you donât have an authenticator. Just that theyâve hacked you means they have your login and password. Either you went to a site or have a keylogger. Seriously wow should be the least of your concerns.
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So you have a bunch of friends who download sketchy programs from unknown sources and donât take the most basic steps to secure their accounts?
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(1) Welcome to an old thing.
(2) Itâs a stretch to say the word âgovernmentâ or âchinaâ here in like an organized way. Yes it is from that part of the world but I think the best you can say is âcivicâ because it is true that public opinion about the US is bad and getting worse. And the same goes for anything not-china, they are on the path to xenophobia. So messing with anything that originates outside of china is almost considered patriotic activity.
(3) This is literally why tokens exist, they didnât want to or couldnât think of a good way to put in serious game controls so they just gave up. They threw gold at people in wod and also introduced tokens. Account theft was insane in the past, insane. So common.
(4) This isnât just wow. When ESO came out the clients and servers were already pre-hacked with back doors and all sorts of other things. Many many things. As the company removed some hacks they just moved on to other ones they had saved up. Boy that release was a mess. By comparison, historically, warcraft has done done a lot better combating this. But ⌠itâs a detached corp now, so the motivation just isnât there anymore. It only needs to be somewhat hack-proof, just enough spent on security so that people keep playing, no more.
- so watch your back ingame, browsing, in email, and so on
Authenticators exist. Everyone uses them. You wanted to troll about China for reasons.
Thank you for the information, 
Do not underestimate them.
This is a warning! Be prepared for big, bad Reds for they are coming!
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it sucks but hacks are not something that happen.
Hacked accounts are the result of the following:
- Weak passwords/repeated passwords
- Going to suspicious sites
- unintentionally downloading malware/keylogs
I mean they punished gamers for backing Hong Kong , we all know about the Labor Camps situation in China, so it donât surprise me what American Companies will allow/ put up with for money. Its all about the duckies screw the morality of things.
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This has been going on for years. China has businesses centered around hacking accounts, farming gold, and selling it on multiple game platforms.
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Your high horse is a Shetland pony considering you are paying said company.
For one its my money I spend it on what I want, also Just because I Play/Played wow now/before they got in bed with China donât mean I have to like what they do or support their politics, and 3, ill remind people who they are dealing with so they are not surprised by posts like this.
Whatever you have to tell yourself pal. If you are ok looking hypocritical who am I to stop you.
Itâs the world we live in pal. Its $hitty but we have to still live in it. Even with the trolls in it.
itâs simple do not give the Chinese government access to your credentials.
literally all of their business are controlled by the government.
stop giving these genocidal maniacs your money.
they ended up fixing his account within a couple hours cus we all reached out in guild.
And now you necroâd a necro that you already necroâd?
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