This one hits especially close to home for me. Check out this forum thread over on worldofwar.net. The gist of it if you don’t want to click through and read is, folks visiting a popular World of Warcraft fansite were exposed to a banner ad which contained a jpeg image that took advantage of an Internet Explorer security vulnerability to install a keylogger, which in turn captured your World of Warcraft login and password information. People are logging into WoW only to discover their accounts gone, or their characters stripped of all possessions and currency. Although WoW’s exchange rate is currently something like 11 (US) cents per gold piece, I’m sure in aggregate this quickly added up for whoever managed this. For anyone wondering about the warning messages about account security you’re seeing when you login to WoW these days, this is why. Thankfully aside from Windows Update I never run IE on my gaming rig so I wasn’t impacted by this. I’ll also note that given my current main character’s 35 GP cash reserve, and taking into account his equipment and materials supply, I’d guess my main would have been worth around $4-$5 to someone had they hacked my account. It hardly seems worth the effort, but again in aggregate I guess it was. I’ll be curious to see if they manage to track down the perpetrators – if they do I’ll post a followup.