MMORPG's Industry Relations Manager Garrett Fuller recently had his World of Warcraft account hacked shortly after taking a break from the game for awhile. In his Hacked column, Garrett talks about the process for account redemption and how much better companies, including Blizzard, have gotten at shutting down the hackers. Check it out, then let us know about your experiences on the forums.
So I download the Patch for Cataclysm coming up and basically don't log in for a few weeks after. I just hit the wall with Warcraft again in the beginning of the summer and decided to take a few months off before the expansion. So after a break I log in to check out the new talent system and run around a bit with some free time. Well, the Name and Password are incorrect comes up. Ugh, I thought, please don't be a hack. After many attempts I realize there is no getting in. So I decide to follow the step by step process that Blizzard has set up.