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ID Theft Victims Sue NCSoft in South Korea
greyfeld writes "South Korean lawyers have filed a class action lawsuit against NCSoft related to the identity theft of 230,000 people whose information was then used to register accounts on Lineage and Lineage2. From the Vnunet article: 'Most of the identify thefts took place over the past six months as underground gaming syndicates stole victims' official Korean ID numbers in hacking attacks and used them to register hundreds of thousands of Lineage accounts...the new accounts were then 'farmed' by low paid workers in Chinese gaming sweatshops to generate 'gold' and other game-world items that could be sold for real world cash.'"
Because we've already got tons of seasoned international enforcement against bank and credit fraud, while selling farmed gold to online gamers is a relatively new scam that will leave most modern investigators scratching their heads.
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Some of the players have taken it into their own hands. Korean Lineage players are killing anybody on their server who doesn't speak their language http://gamepolitics.livejournal.com/216094.html. Man, gold farmers ruin EVERYTHING.