For those of you living under a rock, World of Warcraft is the biggest online role playing game on the planet.  I wouldn’t say I’m a total addict but I’m not too far from it.  I’ve been playing for about a year and love just about everything about the game…until I got hacked today!

Now let me state a few things before I continue….I’m not retarded enough to give out any account information or anything of that nature.  I don’t click things that are obvious scams and I always check the actual URL before following any kind of link whether it’s an email or on a website.  My anti-virus is always up to date and I do regular scans.  So now that we’ve covered that…on to the main course.

I’ve never had any security related issues with WoW…never really had any issues at all….until today.  I found out this morning that my account had been hacked.  If you’ve ever had something important stolen from you then you know how it feels.  What’s different is this is worse than getting most material goods stolen…for me anyways.  I’m taking it much more serious than when my truck was broken into just earlier this year.  Why?….because of all the time I had into my WoW characters.  They got all of my gold, all of my inventory, and all of my bank items including the bags that they were held in.  If that wasn’t enough they deleted or sold everything that was soulbound (stuff that can’t be traded or auctioned) including my damn mount!!  I’d seriously beat the hell out of whoever did it if I ever got my hands on them.  It took me a year to get all of that stuff and it was gone in a matter of minutes.  Whether or not Blizzard is going to be able to restore everything remains to be seen but I’m sure I won’t get everything back.

So how does this happen you may ask?  Well I’ve got my suspicions.  Last week I heard about an addon called Questhelper that I wanted to check out.  I’ve been using an addon management program called UI Central from Inc Gamers but this addon wasn’t available through them so I had to goto Curse Gaming to get it.  So I got the addon last week and loved it, wish I had it a year ago.  Curse seemed to have a lot to offer so I created an account at their site and was going to check into their automatic mod updating program but never got to it.  A few days after registering at Curse I start getting spam email from WoWminer.com about buying WoW gold….hmm…probably not a coincidence.  Then a day after that my account is hacked…go figure.  A few quick searches about Curse and WoW accounts and it seems I’m not the only one with problems after getting stuff from Curse.  Intentional or not I think it’s a pretty safe bet that my interaction with them has something to do with my account getting hacked.  Supposedly people are getting Trojan’s from their site or addons they download from there that are keylogging your WoW account information.  From the reading I’m doing it appears there are some Trojan issues with UI Central too.  So basically you need to watch what mods you’re using and always do a google on them before installing them to make sure people aren’t having similar problems.  I’m going to do away with the automatic updaters too…not worth the risk.

So now I sit and wait to see what Blizzard can do for me…guess I’ll actually have to get a life for a few days.