did i just get hacked!?

Zagggon, you're an idiot.

I don't think anyone has actually gotten blizz to restore items for you, you use d2jsp which is MUCH worse than pickit.

lol..i just want to know if this has actually happend to anyone else...the part when you re-connect..the characters (avatars) are hovering over everything

no, but i have had my weapons and items im wearing just dissapear. And i doubt that pickit would say hoto dropped, because it cant be dropped by a monster so there would basically be no point cause whats the chance that someone drops a hoto? and if you did drop the hoto, someoen in the game would be like OMFG I JUS FOUN LEET HOTO FROM BIG MONSTER and then you would have known that you dropped it.

i dunno what happened but some ppl are stupid/careless cuz my clan member claimed to have picked up a perf hoto that someone dropped in a baal run O_o.. some time ago

but any who duped runes socketed into something = item id code from the thing u socket into an armor = that rune/jewel/gem wont make it poof