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Vince
Jul 1st, 2011, 07:16:34 PM
My e-mail was hacked last week. I found out about soon afterward, and changed my password. Apparently, to gmail's account activity thingie, the hacker was in China. Two days later, I get an e-mail from Battle.net congratulating a guy named "zhang" on making an account, and exhorting him (me?) to verify the account.

Needless to say, I haven't verified the account, but nor have I deleted the e-mail. I tried going on battle.net to get this worked out with them, but without an account (and I'm unwilling to attach it to another e-mail account) I can't log in and fill out a ticket.

Apparently I'm not the only one to have this happen. Any one got any ideas? I'd rather not have "zhang" anywhere near my email ever again.
Morgan Evanar
Jul 1st, 2011, 08:10:46 PM
What email provider?
Vince
Jul 1st, 2011, 08:23:08 PM
The account is Gmail.
Tear
Jul 2nd, 2011, 02:00:27 AM
Possible keylogging software on your computer? Try copy and pasting your passwords.
Dasquian Belargic
Jul 2nd, 2011, 02:51:37 AM
That's weird.. they just signed up using your email address but didn't use your payment details?
Park Kraken
Jul 2nd, 2011, 07:54:12 AM
I had the same thing happen to me once as well. Although since I had an active Battle.net account, they just ended up hijacking my account for gold farming in WoW. IP trace led it to China as well. I ended up switching from Yahoo to Hotmail for all of my gaming stuff.
Vince
Jul 2nd, 2011, 08:37:31 AM
I'm not ruling out keylogging, though I've read that Ubuntu's a lot safer when it comes to foreign software and such.

As far as I can tell, all they did was use my address to register their account.
Morgan Evanar
Jul 2nd, 2011, 09:31:01 AM
If you have ubuntu you don't have a keylogger. They just used your address.
Darth Turbogeek
Jul 2nd, 2011, 05:34:55 PM
I'm not ruling out keylogging, though I've read that Ubuntu's a lot safer when it comes to foreign software and such.

As far as I can tell, all they did was use my address to register their account.

If you are using Ubuntu you do not have a keylogger (Malware does nto exist for Ubuntu), your password was most likely brute forced or outright guessed. They just simply used your address, so dont sweat it but change all your passwords again.