People being hacked since the last Server Check.

I haven't item locked anything, but last time I asked, someone said that the locks made stuff account-tradeable rather than completely untradeable.

That's good to know. I don't recall that being the case the one time I item-locked something.

Of course, now I'm torn over whether I should bother. Making mesos is rough.

get married, kaboom rings, unable to delete

Only $20 to secure your account (last I knew prices).
They're calling it a 'feature'.

This leaves me wondering how difficult it would be for Nexon to implement some sort of character / item recovery system.

They have one for characters.
It's called sending in a ticket and praying to as many gods as possible.

Seriously though, there have been some who have had deleted characters restored, but it strikes me as a rarity.
Personally, I find it ludicrous that it's as easy to delete a character as it is to login to it.
I've said before that they should have a sliding scale that makes higher leveled characters more difficult to delete...
Or, you know, it could be a timed process.

Another thread about accounts being hacked?! This is just ridiculous Jeeves, I shall be sure to avoid such preposterous attempts at fearmongering in the future, make no mistake!

If this is fearmongering, then what's the aim?
Because, as I see it, this thread exists to inform and gather information over what is a very real situation, and the contributors have no means to personally benefit from letting others know of what has happened to them.
Pretending that such a situation isn't occurring only serves to make allowances for Nexon's apathy.