I'm happy to announce that the items that were stolen from the guild bank was restored last week. Menace is doing a once over to make sure everything back in place.

The items were restored into my bags, everything in my bags was put in the bank or in mail, and everything in my bank was put in the mail. I logged on Friday evening, tried to mount up and screamed when I saw my bags only had the restored items.

Anyway, I'm sure everyone is alert now on account security. I spoke to our hosting service about possible site compromise and they assured me that it was unlikely. Passwords are encrypted on the back end. Not even MMO can view the passwords. Also, our forums use a different means of authentication from WoW.

Finally, keep your account safe. A few tips:

-Make sure your account is in your name or make sure the person who owns the account is trustworthy and can easily produce proof of purchase

-Don't share account info or make sure the person you are sharing with can be strangled immediately if something goes wrong

-Make sure your browser is set to ask you if you want anything installed on your computer

-Make sure you have antivirus installed, running and updated.

-Enable some sort of firewall on your system allowing only applications that you know to send out information (egress rule set) and services that you are familiar with come into your system (ingress)

-When looking for WoW information, don't click on banners.

-Avoid addons that require you to rename a folder in your WTF folder. WTF is where local information on your account is stored. The interface folder interprets how the WTF information is presented.

-Avoid addons that capture information in real time or uploads data while you play.

-Don't buy gold or participate in a leveling service that requires you to submit your account information.

-Don't participate in online services that provide extra info on your character but needs your account information to do a "thorough scan of your character"

-For those using updating programs for their addons, be careful and make sure the addon you're updating comes from a trustworthy source.

Wait minute... this isn't work!!! What the heck!!!!!!

Hi Eiye - sounds like a true system admin

I couldnt vendor your items fast enough to get my epix mount, before Blizz found me :/

Only joking

There's not a person on the planet, other than Blizz, who knows my password.

Ferrill, a former SDSer, once famously said her husband doesnt have her password to logon.

Ie. Dont give out your password.

Dont let others powerlevel your char or grind, unless you really trust them.

thanks for the update eiye. its great to see that the GM's came through for us. i want to thank big al (neumas) for catching the discrepancies as fast as he did if not for him we would have very likely not received 100% of our gear back and it done so in such a timely fasion. i consider ourselves very lucky. i appreciate all the help several of you did to help me chase down the account responsible and help establish a time line that actually made things especially easy you all know who you are. again we could not have done this without your help.

no new update on our guild bank (face orc dani and mine) blizz still hasnt told us anything so not sure if ours will be replace but last i heard they are still looking into it >.>

damn, so i can't use "a" as my password anymore?

rom u can level my alts any day lol im to lazy to level them but yet i do have like 14 now

#722604 BrotherGrimm wrote:

damn, so i can't use "a" as my password anymore?

anything less than eight characters can be cracked in four hours..... true story..... make a habit of having your password eight or more characters that includes capitals, numbers, and punctuations.

or passphrases which makes passwords 20 characters or more....

#722776 Eiye wrote:

#722604 BrotherGrimm wrote:

damn, so i can't use "a" as my password anymore?

anything less than eight characters can be cracked in four hours..... true story..... make a habit of having your password eight or more characters that includes capitals, numbers, and punctuations.

or passphrases which makes passwords 20 characters or more....

mine uses letters, numbers, symbols, and punctuations. not gonna get cracked anytime soon. also, its quite long.

I remember the most common user passwords used to be: Love, God, Secret and Sex.

Here are some interesting articles about password:

Top-10-most-common-passwords in UK
Top 10 common passwords from PC Magazine

#723064 Deew wrote:

I remember the most common user passwords used to be: Love, God, Secret and Sex.

OMG I want to watch Hackers now LOL

Heh, one of my old pass phrases? Power Overwhelming!

I remember I had one that was zergrush for a little while. Don't remember what it was for though. XD