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Evil Keyloggers Hack World Of Warcraft Admins

- Over at WOW Insider, they've got an interesting post noting that World Of Warcraft admins were posting 'keylogger' links to the official WoW forums last night, after their accounts were compromised by unknown hackers.

The site's Elizabeth Wachowski notes: "As I personally thought the whole thing was a photoshop hoax until I read Tyren's comment, "Folks, we're definitely dealing with the issue at hand with the greatest amount of speed and care. We always appreciate our community's support when it comes to alerting us about key loggers on the forums and we hope you'll continue to do so. This is a good chance to remind our players to always check a URL before clicking on it." It sounds like Blizzard is taking this seriously. Eyonix later noted that he kind of enjoyed banning his coworkers."

[Incidentally, on the whole WoW hacking front, there's a really interesting potential story in the allegations that GameRankings.com was hacked back in March and a keylogger trojan to steal World Of Warcraft accounts inserted into the page code. I could never get anyone from CNet to call me back and confirm/deny the reports, but there are a few independent accounts of it happening, and the site was down for a long time just after that - though it's back up again now. So - consider it an urban legend, for now?]

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