Slash and dash

This past Friday, our GM decided to trim the fat from our guild. He had made a calendar invite in-game with everyone in the guild invited to it. If you didn't respond to the invite, you were kicked from the guild. We lost one relatively active player due to this but he knew the consequences of not responding. Everyone else was players that show up every once in a while, or not at all.
This has trimmed our guild down to 40-something members, including alts. Has this helped recruiting efforts? Not really. Not at all actually. It seems to have rededicated several of our members to showing up more often than once a month or so. The slashing part of the title definitely holds to this action but alas, is not the topic of this post.
Monday morning, my account was hacked.
I usually get up for work about 7am, which gives me about an hour to get some play time in. Usually poke around the Auction House for a bit after doing my daily random dungeon for my 2 Emblems of Frost. I woke up to my alarm clock and cell phone both going crazy. I checked my phone and saw I had a text from my guild mate and coworker who does the same thing I do every morning, except he does his about an hour and a half before I get up. The text said "Your wow account has been hacked. Guild bank cleaned out. Watched it happen but couldn't kick you". In case you're wondering, he couldn't kick me because we both rank the same in the guild as officers.
I threw my clothes on, ran downstairs and tried to login (not really sure why) and found it wouldn't accept my password. The bastard had changed my password too. I get some more details from my friend. He said the guy spoke Chinese (he translated what he said. Came out roughly to "My mom eats shit") and was logging in and out of my toons rapidly. He managed to kick my two alts in the guild but the damage was done. I assessed the damage from the Armory online. He had stripped me clean.
I finally logged in last night and found that, indeed, I was bare. The only thing he had left me was gear that was unable to be sold to vendors and my quest items. He threw my quest items in the bank, cleared out what he wanted from there (Saronite and Titansteel bars), sold anything and everything he could from not only my main, but my alts and the guildbank. He also hit my characters from Mannoroth and sold anything and everything he could from there as well.
I had known people who had experienced an account compromise like this and they ended up getting everything back from the GMs, just takes a few days. Before I left for work on Monday, I had already filed my ticket for restoration and our guild bank was requested for restore Monday evening. What I had not counted on was the feelings of fear that it had implanted in me. I ran complete system scans on my PC for any trojans/keylogger software that may have been hiding and zipped a file that I suspected may have led to the compromise before changing my password and adding an authenticator back to my account.
I still am somewhat afraid to sign in to my accounts, for whatever reason. I honestly can't find a good reason. I'm always careful with my passwords and now that I have an authenticator, it shouldn't be an issue anymore, just as it has for the past 5 years.
If you don't already have an authenticator, I just became an advocate for them. I urge you to pick one up and use it and save yourself this stress.
And for the bastard that decided to do this to me: I hope you enjoyed the first and last time you saw the inside of my account. Enjoy living under your desk where your slave-driving, gold farmer boss keeps you. Despite you causing me some unneeded stress in my life, I'll continue to enjoy time with my family, drive my Swedish convertible, live in my townhouse and sleep in my Ikea bed. Things you'll never hope to have. Eat shit, asshat.