Hello, sorry for the WoT but I haven't seen this discussed anywhere (forgive me if this has been) and felt it should be mentioned.
Some of you may remember me, but I stopped playing in November due to various reasons. I recently got the itch to come back again only to discover my entire account had been hacked earlier this year.
I attempted to log into my forum account to catch up on what topics I may had missed and my password did not work. I tried the recover password link and my e-mail/username did not exist, meaning I can't even get into my original forum account. I checked my e-mail folder to make sure it was the e-mail I had used, which it was. I also searched my name on the forum and saw my last post was in December. I submitted a ticket and decided to do a bit of investigating in the auction house link:
As I mentioned, I've not played since November, and you can see the clear time skip there. What was interesting was some of the things I did have were sold, and other things on that listing I'd never owned, meaning it appears my character was being used as somebody's mule.
I'd like to make a note that after talking about this in the discord for an LS I'm a member of, I discovered that this also happened to somebody else named Azulupus. We assume inactive accounts have been targeted since they're more likely to be easier to get away with.
At this point I no longer care if my character is savable, it'd be cool if it is but I'm not holding my breath. It can be banned for all I care (I already broke the rule of not having two forum accounts, granted I can't get into my first one). I'm already moving on from this as annoyed as I am, but I wanted to at least warn others to be careful with your account, especially if you plan to take an extended break.
If this doesn't belong here I apologize but I wanted at least to help others be aware this is going on.