You like to play World of Warcraft on your Mac? Well, so do I. As a matter of fact, it’s probably my favorite game available on the Mac today. I listen to some World of Warcraft podcasts and occasionally I had heard stories of users accounts getting hacked and they end up getting locked out of their account until they can get it re-instated by Blizzard. Well, Blizzard has a solution to help combat account hacking and it’s available for the iPhone and iPod Touch. It’s the WoW Authenticator.

A free application available at the iTunes application store, the Blizzard Authenticator adds another layer of authentication to your World of Warcraft account. It works this way: You log into your World of Warcraft game as you normally would with your username and password. After that, another entry box will pop up asking you to enter the number that is being shown on authenticator’s screen. Once you’ve done that, you are free to play your game. The number is changing all the time, some it become virtually impossible that someone else can hack your account and use it to spam others in the game.

You will have to setup your Blizzard Battle.net account to work with an authenticator (steps for that can be found at: http://us.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?locale=en_US&articleId=24987). Once you’ve done that, you can rest assured that your account will then be safe. (Note: whatever you do, don’t lose the authenticator! If that happens, you will be on the phone with Blizzard trying to reset your account!)