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 Digg.com Facebook Google Bookmarks N4G Gamerblips del.icio.us Reddit Slashdot.org StumbleUpon This has been happening on World of Warcraft for just under 3 years, Nothing new. And Blizzard don't really do anything to prevent it, the same goes for Free online MMO's also, because they just don't have the teams to prevent it.
I only play City of Heroes in terms of MMO's, until the bioware and cryptic mmo's come out, so no biggy for me. City of Heroes doesn't receive retards, and people trying to make private servers etc, due to its heavy security. I had LIVE account hacked two weeks ago. Whoever too it used my remaining 400 MS points to buy a Forza 2 map pack. Luckily they were too stupid to change the password so I was able to recover it and put in some extra security. This happened to me! I was pissed for a month! My gamertag was hacked along with my main e-mail address and the dude even got to my account on some of my sites!He even used my credit card to by two times 2000 ms points. I was able to cancel my credit card and get a new one but still! We need a way to stop this shit. Permanantly. I still havent got my e-mail address or gamertag back yet. Sorry, but that is sloppy journalism guys...
The first (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) TCP/IP-based wide-area network was operational by 1 January 1983.
Tim Berners-Lee proposed a project based on Hypertext in 1980 whilst working at CERN (Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire, or The European Organization for Nuclear Research, if you prefer; a pan European organisation for particle research) culminating in a prototype named ENQUIRE that was never available to the general public.
Berners-Lee did not see his idea in a demonstrable form for public use until 1990 when the "World Wide Web" was built using the already established Internet & Transmission Control Protocol. The first web site went online on 6 August 1991 resulting in Berners-Lee being credited with inventing the "World Wide Web" (not the Internet).
BFN,
fp. I knew there was a reason I've never created a LIVE account. :lol: Do you have any idea how they got your information? Do you use the same password for most things? Guys, just change your password to something random at least every week. If not, every 2 or 3 days, and write it down. Not quite true. Blizzard released a hardware Authenticator almost a year ago, I should know, I have one attached to my WoW account.
I've played the game for over four years and I've never been hacked once. As long as you take the usual precautions and don't go just clicking on any old silly link that you see in forums or that get sent to you through emails (no matter how genuine they look) you're pretty safe for the most part. Regular virus/malware scans don't do any harm either.
Yeah, I'm sure someone will probably point out that's it's still not foolproof, and it probably isn't, but this sort of scaremongering really doesn't help matters. Tim Berners-Lee invented the world wide web, not the internet. Check your facts, CVG! | 
