Hackers Attack World of Warcraft Gamers
Hackers are targeting World of Warcraft players, possibly looking for loot and items.
Graham Cluley, a senior technology consultant at Sohpos Labs, is reporting that hackers are targeting subscribers of World of Warcraft in order to gain access to passwords and other account information. Apparently, subscribers are receiving an exclusive email invitation announcing a sneak peak to a new in-game feature: beast mounting. The free trial allegedly allows players to ride wolves, rams, horses, or any other beast that can carry a rider, but only for a limited time.
"Emails intercepted by researchers at Sophos Labs pose as official communications from World of Warcraft developer Blizzard Entertainment, but are really intended to lead players to a phishing website," Cluley explained.
By clicking on a link provided by the email, subscribers are led to a fake World of Warcraft site that requests login credentials. Hackers then obtain the account information, login to the player's account, and steal whatever virtual items players may have acquired. In-game items such as gold and armor can be sold off to third-party websites for real-world currency.
"Game players would be wise to remember that if something sounds too good to be true (free gold, free weapons, free expansions), it invariably is too good to be true," he added.

Thank you.
Hackers could get your account name and password, but w/out the physical key, that info is worthless.
Thank you.
Anyways, peoples have to be more careful! Probably best to look things up at the official website before doing something like that. Guess they learned it the hard way. =/
Hackers could get your account name and password, but w/out the physical key, that info is worthless.
thank you....end of story
Yeah... not cool.. and a bit disturbing.....
For 4 and a half years, Blizzard as done an incredible job at creating a digital universe full of diversity in many different aspects. For those who are drawn to other MMOs are attracted there not because WoW is a bad game, but because they prefer the services that other games provide.
However, with the interest of sticking on topic; people who hack for the intent of doing damage to others deserve to be caught and punished despite the software involved.
@Ciuy - thats a really stupid comment. Everyone, and I don't care from what part of the globe you live in, likes free. But, they don't take the time to think.