Warning sign of this risk:

A real example is the players “titussteel”. This player is an enthusiastic follower of the Wold of Warcraft series. In this forum post, the player is explaining how he is facing this issue, describing what the thief did to him and that he is looking for advice to this doesn't happens to him once again. 

As we can see, the first action a thief will do is the change the login details of the account:

a)    Email address linked to the account.

b)    Password linked to the account.

c)  And other details like password “hint”.

d) Even some websites offer the option to recover the account by sending an SMS with a special code that will gain access to the owner; however this can be changed as well.