Just now my friend told me that 20 hackers went on the9 page and hacked a lot of wow accounts. Many people are pissed as their account is deleted completely. He gave me this link if u can read chinese pls translate.
http://tieba.baidu.com/f?kz=577536807

is this the reason we can no longer log in, or is this an unrelated (and unfortunate) issue?

if your acc got hacked and deleted it is definitely reason why you cant log in..
P.S if your account did get deleted come to Warsong serv on BJ 2. We got loads of foreigners there and if u lost ur acc u got nothing to loose:P
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hahaha if anyone has any info about this pls post it

Mmm interesting. I'm lucky because mine didn't got hacked.

What I've heard is that the9 introduced a new contract clause in the new patch. Basicaly it says that you have no rights over your account. Unfortunatly my chinese level is not good enough to investigate this further.
But it could be a problem when Netease will take back the9 activity in a few weeks. Perhaps the9 will simply refuse to exchange the account informations with Netease and simply try to get their current player base playing in their world of fight. We would be their hostages.

Well this is simple speculation coming from my imagination, but the new clause saying we have no rights over our accounts is real and it scares me a little. I play this game for more than 2 years and have like 4 70s so if they refuse to cooperate with Netease would be a pain in the ass.....

Hope they won't act childish on this one.

what the hell? No rights over mine own acc...thats great... lol if the9 is really not going to let go of the acc information, chinese ppl will be furious and the9 is going to get in serious trouble. No way im playing the shitty WOF.

Well, I got a friend that got hacked, and not in the 'GoIn' t0 st3Al ur 100Tz' But in the 'I'm smart and I'll take the gold and sell your account!
So now he aint got the pass...
It's Hrothgar

.. If you guys don't have the password, I hope that you locked the account using your email and cellphone, cause obviously we don't have chinese IDs and therefore can't get our accounts back that way. Unless it's your friends ID, which in that case you could simply submit to a GM and after 1 month you should be fine.

If anyone can give me a link to the new contract I'll look into it. I just simply can't find it anywhere and it never popped up for me.

Well, you don't have "right" over your wow account in EU either. Everything belongs to Blizz. So it's basically not a suprise to see it here.