If you bought a Seagate drive recently your WoW password might be compromised

It’s not like World of Warcraft players have enough baddies to deal with in world, now whenever we buy hard drives, we need to be on alert with our enchanted customer armor.

via internetnews:

Seagate is warning customers of its external hard drives that their bare drive may not be so bare after all — it might have a Trojan hidden on it. The infection is relatively harmless, unless you play “World of Warcraft,” and still very rare. Only 1,800 machines were infected. But it does raise the issue of problems in the manufacturing process.

Is this another downside to using cheap subcontractors in China or is it just a few bad seeds at one particular plant? Plenty of other computer-related products ship without incident, so probably no cause for serious alarm. Seagate is offering a 60-day pass of their Kaspersky antivirus software available for free download. They might consider talking to Blizzard and give any impacted WoW players a free month of service.

Good advice to always reformat any drive you buy before using it. Hat tip to Techdirt. Even if you’re not impacted, always a good idea to change your password.