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I got two more phishing emails to my allakhazam account today, one "Blizzard Store Order - StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty" with a fake link asking me to sign in to my blizzard account, and also "Blizzard Entertainment Cataclysm Beta" directing people to login to battle.net at worldofwarcraft-cataclysm-beta.net (which is now down).
Yep, I got that first one also. Not the second one but that's probably because their little operation was shut down quickly.
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I've been posting here for six years and I've never once received a spam email at the address my account is registered to. You have to face the possibility that it isn't a leak on Allakhazam's end.
I've also been posting here many years and I've never gotten any kind of spam or phishing e-mail or anything unwanted to my Allakhazam-linked e-mail. The fact of the matter is that something is happening NOW, within the last week or so. Several of us have confirmed that we're getting these e-mails because the e-mail address is linked to our Alla accounts and to no other sites. Telling people to simply spoof an e-mail or use throw-away e-mails doesn't help the thousands of users who likely use one primary e-mail address for most things; it's these people who are vulnerable to being phished, they're the ones that aren't security-savvy and assume they can just use their primary e-mail on this site, Blizzard's site, etc., because they assume all of these sites to be 100% safe.
There's obviously a leak or some sort of vulnerability. As a long time visitor of this site, I see it as a big problem and I'm trying to raise awareness to PROTECT the site and its visitors. Pointing fingers away from Alla and absolving them of any vulnerability isn't going to help, it's only going to prolong the problem. It's actually kind of sad that a lot of you are trying to dismiss it and insist that Alla is an impregnable fortress and that
we're somehow at fault for getting the exact same phishing e-mails every other day on e-mail accounts we ONLY use for THIS site.
I don't play WoW. Haven't had a battle.net account in over a decade. These phishing e-mails don't affect me at all, so why should I care? Maybe it's because no one deserves to be phished by linking their e-mail address to possibly the best MMO-oriented site on the net. And, because I want to see this problem nipped in the bud and Alla's reputation as a safe site kept in tact.