Account hacked? Why not stop and smell the flowers?

One of the things to remember is that if you take care of your account, and what you download, you should never lose your account.

I want to say the #1 reason for WoW players losing their account is from downloading a new UI mod. Please remember that, even if it is a major site, they simply can't screen all of the content on there fast enough. Because of this be really careful of the UIs you are downloading and you should be a lot safer.

Im a very careful person but even the best of us get caught. I had recieved a personal e-mail with nothing more than a picture. Turns out to be a keylogging agent and I lost not just one but several accounts along with my e-mail to get the accounts back. You can never be too careful and just when you think its safe something bad happens. Murphy's Law ftw!

The main problem lies on the end of the company, in WoW's case, Blizzard. There are a dozen methods off the top of my head that could be used to prevent account hacking, yet, they haven't implemented anything yet. It would be easy to do, some very basic things, but Blizzard doesn't care, because it hasn't hurt their income much. People who get hacked aren't quitting.

So I blame Blizzard for lack of action on their part to prevent it.

You think so limited Derek K. There needs to be nothing invasive about added security. What about say a dozen randomized buttons on the screen. They all have pictures on them. When you updated your account security, you picked two unique pictures, say, a flower and sword. When you go to log in, there's a dozen images, and you simply have to pick the two buttons that correspond to the two that you picked when creating your security info. No typing, no confusion, you just pick your two pictures. If they had this, a keylogger would be meaningless. They could of course try to figure out what it is by trying all the various combinations. But this is just a simple method that would increase security without harming customers in any way.

Need to think, not just shoot down ideas that work and are used already by many companies. My bank for example on their login, beyond the login, has me also pick a picture and phrase if I don't log in from my default IP address. Really simple, and it works. Pick the wrong one, that IP address is banned from logging in for an amount of time, might be 30 minutes, never got it wrong so far.

There was ways to fix the log in process, the first key one is to have forum login's seperate from account login's. That's the first thing to do . But beyond that, so many easy ways they could fix things, from an onscreen keyboard, to image selection, that would prevent the majority of these account hacks. They are just too lazy to do so.

Blizzard could easily allow players to opt-in to a higher-security login system, such as one that requires a USB hardware key. Players wouldn't be required to use it, but those who want to would have the added security.