http://www.wow.com/2010/07/06/security-flaw-allows-addons-to-expose-full-real-life-names-witho/
Read there…
Apparently enabling parental controls will prevent this.
Addons can reveal your REAL name to anyone without permission.
July 7, 2010 by Askevar
This worries me even more so. I was sittin in Stormwind this evening waiting in que for a instance on my lowbie priest. Suddenly I get a flood in my chat window of this
BN_PRESENCE*
ID= my real name was here
Player:Tehkan
9
19
It then repeated this 3 times with the numbers changing slightly. I have to wonder if this was something they changed on the backend and one of my addons was picking it up, or worse someone was trying to use the exploit to obtain my real name.
Soooo yeah, Askevar. Til this is fixed, Ima probably enable parental controls or whatever I have to do.
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