PSA: Regarding Limited Restorations
For those of who have been hacked here in the recent waves of server security issues, I have had a giant problem that I would like for you guys to learn from what has happened to me.
If you had your character stripped of gold/items, and are trying to have a limited restoration done on your account.
PLEASE DO NOT GO THROUGH WITH IT IMMEDIATELY
If you are able to ask the GM, try to find out, what time you are being restored to and what level your character is. I just spend the entire day trying to get my account restored, to find my character taken from level 52, to level 41. A net loss of about 12 play hours, about a third of my time playing the game.
You may find yourself in a similar position to what I was in, and in that case, if you have friends playing the game. You might have better options such as buying blues and using sub-prime gear as place holders until you can farm up better items/gold. Which is what I wish I could do hindsight being 20/20.
Please, all in all, just try to find out what you are being restored to before you make a decision as it is final and CANNOT BE REVERSED. Have fun and slay happy.
Posted May 22, 2012, 7:20 AM UTC · edited
Sorry, there is still no indication that the issue is with Battle.net servers. The main concern you should have with restoring a character is that your account is still vulnerable.
So the multitude of people who have run virus scans, and found nothing. Had authenticators attached to their accounts and stopped nothing, is not an indicator that the issue is with the battle.net servers? If that is not, then you are pretty delusional.
No, im smart enough to know that a "virus scan" isn't enough to find all malicious software. I also READ the Blizzard post that says after HOURS of helping hacked players they have yet to find ONE who had an authenticator prior to being hacked.
Is your password to battle.net 100% unique? I would hedge that most of the large wave of people being compromised are people who have had their accounts on other sites hacked and battle.net accounts with shared credentials.
Also a simple virus scan only can scan what is specifically in the list of definitions. It is most definitely not a "catch-all".