A player recalls a turbulent time with Wrath of the Lich King, when a hacker, of all people, helped him to new wealth.
It’s every player’s nightmare: you spend months, if not years, building up an account, and then suddenly you can’t log in anymore. Whether it’s your Steam account or an online game account, the damage caused by hackers can be immeasurable.
Many World of Warcraft players have had to deal with this. Once your account has been hijacked, there’s no way around contacting support. In some cases, the process can take forever, and even if you eventually get your account back, there’s a good chance that it will be completely emptied.
A WoW player: Wrath of the Lich King had his account stolen by hackers, but he took action in time, which could hardly have paid off more.
“After that, I only played the hacker’s death knight.”
Reddit user Number1DestryJones shares his nostalgic story in the WoW subforum with the title: “I was hacked back in WotLK… and after that, I only played the hacker’s death knight.”
I got hacked back in WotLK… and I ended up maining the hacker’s Death Knight 😂& lt;/a>
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Wrath of the Lich King was the second expansion for WoW in 2008, so the story dates back a few years.
In his post, the player first describes how the hack happened.
After taking a break from the game for a few months, he tried unsuccessfully to log back into his account. His password had been changed, and he ultimately had to contact Blizzard and prove that he was the rightful owner of the account.
Eventually, he finally got his account back:
I log in and expect chaos… And oh man! It was a strange kind of chaos.
A death knight on a random realm (a realm I hardly ever played on, namely Tichondrius) was suddenly level 62. Full mining level achieved. All the bags and the bank were stuffed with stacks and stacks of ore. Literally a starter kit for gold farmers.
Since it was just sitting there, I sold everything and immediately had about 20,000 gold, which was a lot at the time. I used it to buy my mounts and everything else I could that was BoA/BoP [Note: Bind on Account/Bind on Pickup] before Blizzard noticed.
And he was absolutely right (ha!) to do so. It didn’t take long before Blizzard wrote to him saying that the gold he had in his account had been obtained through “illegal activities.” So the gold was deducted from his account, but he was allowed to keep everything he had previously purchased with it.
Number1DestryJones ultimately decided to play the hacker’s death knight as his main character. Although he had never considered this class before, the level advantage convinced him to stick with it.
The WoW hacker’s plan was probably to farm gold with the stolen account and then either transfer it to another account or resell the entire account. He had probably used bots to do this, which is why the original account owner was not allowed to keep the farmed gold in the end.
