Accounts caught hacking are grounds for a permanent ban as defined in the
Terms of Use. You must always be careful of whatever files you download from the internet to use for game play. If you did not download the client from the Nostalrius
website then yes, there's a chance your torrented file did contain hacks and/or modified client files.
You'll have to register new accounts to play with going forward.
Viper wrote:E - Permanent ban.: Most serious sanction. Permanent bans are rare but definitive. This sanction is applied in case of multiple violations of the rules, or after multiple account interruption, as well as any of the following:
Examples:
- Hacking
- Using any botting program
- Abuse of major in-game bugs
- Possession of any item(s) obtained with illegal methods
- Any client modification (libraries, executables, MPQ, etc.)
- Revealing the identity of a Nostalrius Begins staff member
- Advertising for other private servers or gold selling websites
- Selling/Buying accounts, gold, items or any ingame services with real money
- Publishing a software, methods or articles on cheating which can be applied on the server.