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Rezzinu  Posts: 185
Registered: 2004-4-17 10:20:46
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
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Account Banned |
So I decided I would like to see the new area's that Cataclysm has to offer and I was going to use the 10 day trial. Logged into my Battle.net account, clicked on my WoW account and it told me it was banned. No reason, no nothing, just account banned.
I have no idea why it was banned. I quit before Cataclysm released, right around when they implemented the new talent trees (think it was November). My password was made out of 6 letters (2 uppercase letters), 2 numbers, and 2 characters. Honestly it was a really strong password with no ties to anything. My machine is clean and that was the only game/account that was hacked. (/tinfoil hat...inside job)
Oh well. They'll never see me re-subscribing now...guaranteed.
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sarnsereg Title: I HAS A TITLE?
Posts: 117
Registered: 2001-6-17 21:19:51
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
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Account Banned |
see ya.
also, blizzard doesn't count upper and lowercase letters. all you wondering, just type yourpassword with capslock on or just use all lowercase and it'll still work.. actually makes me mad to think their log in is that unsecure that it doesn't differntiate between upper and lowercase. (or as of a couple months ago anyways, maybe they changed it which would be good.)
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
Subject:
Account Banned |
Rezz,
It is possible that you got hacked, and your account was used while you were unsubbed (which is easily verified)
Contact Blizz and see whats up.
Edit: this is of course unless you know you deserved to be banned for something, and have no grounds for a dispute.
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Taloquin Posts: 141
Registered: 2003-11-20 18:12:14
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
Subject:
Account Banned |
Simply put, you only used 6 characters. The difference between 6 characters vs 8, be it letters, numbers, or "characters" as you said is huge. Exponentially huge. Then if you were smart you would have attached an authenticator, either the $8 one from Blizzard or the free iDevice app.
Simply put, you got hacked. It's not Blizzard's fault. It's yours.
Only thing you can do is submit a ticket via email to Blizzard's accounts department and wait for a reply. If you don't wanna wait for that, that's your business. Blizzard won't miss you. Even with the dwindling subs they have had lately, losing one because the user didn't secure their account is about a pebble in the ocean.
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Quazimortal  Title: The One and Only
Posts: 1,557
Registered: 2004-9-18 21:52:58
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
Subject:
Account Banned |
Taloquin posted:
Simply put, you only used 6 characters. The difference between 6 characters vs 8, be it letters, numbers, or "characters" as you said is huge. Exponentially huge. Then if you were smart you would have attached an authenticator, either the $8 one from Blizzard or the free iDevice app.
Simply put, you got hacked. It's not Blizzard's fault. It's yours.
Only thing you can do is submit a ticket via email to Blizzard's accounts department and wait for a reply. If you don't wanna wait for that, that's your business. Blizzard won't miss you. Even with the dwindling subs they have had lately, losing one because the user didn't secure their account is about a pebble in the ocean.
Math isn't your strong point, is it?
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Rezzinu Posts: 185
Registered: 2004-4-17 10:20:46
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
Subject:
Account Banned |
GutterSludge posted:
Rezz,
It is possible that you got hacked, and your account was used while you were unsubbed (which is easily verified)
Contact Blizz and see whats up.
Edit: this is of course unless you know you deserved to be banned for something, and have no grounds for a dispute.
Thanks for the help Gutter. I'm going to contact them via email on Monday. Like you said this should be easily verified, my subscription was canceled way back when and I have entered no payment information since then.
And no. I had no grounds for a ban before I left. Never got a warning, suspension or anything on my account.
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Keeping your knowledge a secret leads to arrogance...
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
Subject:
Account Banned |
Taloquin posted:
Simply put, you only used 6 characters. The difference between 6 characters vs 8, be it letters, numbers, or "characters" as you said is huge. Exponentially huge. Then if you were smart you would have attached an authenticator, either the $8 one from Blizzard or the free iDevice app.
Simply put, you got hacked. It's not Blizzard's fault. It's yours.
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Taloquin Posts: 141
Registered: 2003-11-20 18:12:14
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
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Account Banned |
Quazimortal posted:
Math isn't your strong point, is it?
Actually I don't think it's yours.
26 letters (not including numbers and other special ascii characters) used in a 6 character password is 308,915,776 combinations.
26 letters (not including numbers and other special ascii characters) used in a 8 character password is 208,827,064,576 combinations.
That's just over 300 million combinations versus just over 200 billion combinations. And that's just using letters, not the entire 128 characters available. See the difference, or must I break out the crayons?
Broken_Kayfabe posted:
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HAH! That's funny. Maybe YOU should go read it it again? As the OP said, "My password was made out of 6 letters (2 uppercase letters), 2 numbers, and 2 characters."
Broken_Kayfabe posted:
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Did I ever say that it was brute force? No I didn't. I said he got hacked. I just pointed out that he has a weak password too.
Broken_Kayfabe posted:
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You first.
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Quazimortal Title: The One and Only
Posts: 1,557
Registered: 2004-9-18 21:52:58
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
Subject:
Account Banned |
Wow, you even wrote it out and you still can't add properly. I don't even know what to say to that...
Let me dumb it down for you so that just maybe you will get it.
6+2+2=10
Crayons indeed! 
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
Subject:
Account Banned |
There seems to be a flaw that allows people to find un-sub'ed accounts and steal them. Just what the flaw is, or if it is an inside job is not clear. Evidence shows many people have their accounts stolen after a few months of non use.
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