What's the point of playing if characters aren't safe?

[anterozz]

I wouldn't be surprised if it's an actual security breach on Nostalrius and more people start getting hacked in the coming day, yup , the users' fault...

From the way you argue with people I'm not surprised you got hacked.

Elaborate please

[anterozz]

I wouldn't be surprised if it's an actual security breach on Nostalrius and more people start getting hacked in the coming day, yup , the users' fault...

From the way you argue with people I'm not surprised you got hacked.

He's still in the "There is no way it's my fault! I'm not an idiot! Therefore it must be a failure of the admin." stage. Hence the lashing out.

Never been hacked in my entire life even though I have accounts that have a higher risk of being hacked.

It must be really hard to admit the server is insecure.

[mazziwe]

I know a guy who does this shit.. They do some research on whom to hack. It must be "profitable" Like ppl having multiple chars etc.. This site is actally being used for research, just a tiny ammount, but it's happening.. I use a fortknox password, and a "anti-hack" program.. btw, using a complicated account name does help. MâÈtT1958, cause this aint done manually, u know...

YOu are not prepared!

[PrettyFoxy]

Dude this is absolutely someone you know who did this. When china robs your account they don't care to make chars saying "Itsjustaprankbro." You can say whatever you want but you probably shared your account with a "friend" and they fucked you cause they thought it would be funny/the GMs would restore your chars. Keep blaming the GMs but you know what you did.

[Amkô]

In most cases it's a user fault (DAU).

But why can't they restore things? This would be blizzlike

[Quickbowjob]

Seen a option to lock account to my IP on other servers would be great if Nos could do something similar.

[Eligius]

The hacker got your password from somewhere, it's your fault you were hacked.

Possibilities:
1- One of your friend knows your password and stole your stuff/ leaked it
2- Someone found your email and email password and was able to reset password
3- you installed a modified game client, that has a keylogger included it happened to several people recently. Only download from the OP of the "client" thread in the getting started section
4- regular addons (where you just copy paste in interface folders) can't know your password, but some of them can automatically send gold away when you open a mailbox
5- you downloaded some keylogger from somewhere

When you have been hacked:
1- Don't tell the GMs, otherwise they will ban the account
2- Reformat computer, because if the leak was a keylogger, it is still here somewhere
3- from another computer or from the reformated computer, change email password and game password
4- Refrain from downloading shady stuff and don't tell your password to anyone

1-Yeah sure the only person I play with and level together with must have done it.... someone I know for 8 years...
2-They didn't reset the password, they logged in with the same password I was using. Nobody could have found it because I use this password only on nostalrius.
3-Downloaded the game through this site.
4-Downloaded all the addons through this site.
5-Yeah sure, some hacker was able to install a keylogger on youtube or any other site just to steal Nostalrius accounts and not bank accountss, paypal, etc...

I wouldn't be surprised if it's an actual security breach on Nostalrius and more people start getting hacked in the coming day, yup , the users' fault...

1- That's the number 1 possiblity indeed
2- apparently they did find your password?
3- from the site? You mean from the forum? what client exactly? was it the OP of the official thread or a comment?
4- Same question, but addons can't steal password and delete chars, just send your gold away via mail
5- people could put keyloggers into nostalrius related websites/softwares

Stop blaming others for your mistakes kid, or the same shit is bound to happen again

[ravensareblack]

Never been hacked in my entire life even though I have accounts that have a higher risk of being hacked.

It must be really hard to admit the server is insecure.

Congratulations, you have been hacked for a prank. Again, from the looks of it, the hacker was not after sensitive info. If this was a real hack, you would have lost all access. But you didn't, they allowed you to see what they did.

"itsaprankbro"

[Rarilmar]

I got hacked 2 times on retail so stop complaining about a hack here, do you really expected this to be safe? 1st time blizard ofc blamed me and gaved me all items lot back but without any gold I had. 2nd time it happend I didn't even have an active subscription and got friends from RL telling me "wtf u no longer speack to me in wow?" and I was like "dude I told u I quit 3 months ago" so it turns out farmers were playing my account doing mining and gold transactions and being online on retail without even an active subscription. So blizzard had no excuse this time it was a server database hack, they did restore my account and plus they let me keep all the gold the farmers had which was like really a lot, 30k+ in Cataclism.

[Emptora]

My account was just hacked and all my characters(60, 41 and other alts) were deleted and replaced with a new character named "itsaprankbro". I was playing almost nonstop a week ago and took a small break but I was still logging in everyday just to check guild chat. Logged in just an hour ago and find out all my chars are gone.

Talked to a GM and he said they will not recover my characters because apparently it's my fault because "users are fully responsible for their security" when I only use this computer for gaming, all the addons I ever used were gotten from this site. All my other important accounts like banking, paypal, youtube, etc remain untouched so It's not like it was some keylogger I got from a porn site.

So why should I play again when I know my characters aren't truly safe and are impossible from recovery?.

Tl;Dr

So what you're saying is you shared ur crap and got hacked. Since GM's won't restore you're trying to implicitly suggest that no one should play here because the GM's won't fix stupidity.

If all you wanna do is log on and chat: go back to retail.
If you want catered to because of stupidity: go back to retail.