I know it has been a while since my World of Warcraft hacking story but I wanted to give everyone an update.  After about a week I had everything restored to my account - the person in the department at Blizzard responsible for account restoration was actually quite friendly and helpful.  The whole experience made me inventory my alts and I decided to start leveling my first character in WoW - a level 35 Druid that has literally been chilling out in Ironforge for about 2 years.

Now that he is out of his cold chill I have been using travel form to its fullest and playing WoW entirely too much.  Since that story was posted I have reached level 65 with my Druid - if you play WoW at all you can figure out how much time that sucked out of my life.

In all serious though it really is a fun game - once you get to 70 the arena is great and I have been having a good time keeping up with various folks in Outland.

In any case - more WoW news as it comes in, but the crisis has been resolved.  I am now using some extreme measures to keep my password safe though - constantly cycling passwords and copying and pasting my password to protect against key-loggers (although I hear some Trojans steal passwords from local memory).  I also use my Macbook Pro for 90% of my WoW play - I know playing on a Mac does not make me totally safe, but I certainly feel a bit safer… if only they would release a key fob or something for ultimate security.  Oh well…