Author Topic: World of Warcraft cities hacked (Read 6,392 times)

joiwind · « **on:** October 08, 2012, 01:05 PM »

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 · « **Reply #1 on:** October 08, 2012, 01:13 PM »

(I don't play Warcrack either.)

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

f0dder · « **Reply #2 on:** October 08, 2012, 04:02 PM »

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 · « **Reply #3 on:** October 08, 2012, 04:57 PM »

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.