World of Warcraft cities hacked

[joiwind]

This really made me laugh : World of Warcraft cities hacked - and sacked and burned !


"Hackers have massacred all the virtual characters in some of online adventure game World of Warcraft's major cities."


NB : I don't play this game ...

[Renegade]

(I don't play Warcrack either.)

It's very funny and unfunny at the same time.

[f0dder]

Noticed this a bit earlier today, did a bit of investigation.

Apparently the exploit had been used by a group of three WoW exploit writers for a while, mainly to do runs of the Baradin Hold instance - combined with a teleport hack, they could clear out the instance in no time, earning a lot of gold. Finally blizzard caught wind of it, banned one of the guys, and then the rest got pissed off, shared the exploit with a few others, and set off to disrupt the major cities of several servers.

Some weeks earlier, one of those guys had found a way to *crash* entire servers, afaik by sending some malformed packets.

A couple of references:
Baradin Hold Instakill
Server crash exploit

[SeraphimLabs]

Freaking packet editors!

This was a problem way back in Vanilla, and I honestly can't believe that they didn't fix it back then. I quit WoW back in patch 1.14 Vanilla over a hack like this and Blizzard's inability to fix it in a timely manner.

On top of that, other MMORPGs are being plauged by hacks of similar nature.

[joiwind]

plauged - I love that word.

[tomos]

plauged - I love that word.

-joiwind (October 08, 2012, 12:18 PM)

me too
is that the American English spelling, or should it be 'plaugued' - they both look weird to me now.
Hah!
Google only finds plagued.

[Deozaan]

Reminds me of something commonly found in WoW: People saying rouge instead of rogue.

[f0dder]

Reminds me of something commonly found in WoW: People saying rouge rogue instead of rogue rouge.

-Deozaan (October 08, 2012, 02:08 PM)

There, fixed that for you ;-)

(See the patch notes for 4.1.11).