It's not the first time this type of attack has been seen in the wild: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/20/how-hackers-snatch-real-time-security-id-number

It's not the first time this type of attack has been seen in the wild: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/20/how-hackers-snatch-real-time-security-id-numbers/ http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/20/how-hackers-snatch-.... This article cites a reported cases in 2008. The first case was probably even earlier. It's not a novel attack; what's interesting is that WoW accounts are valuable enough to attract this type of attack.