Man Arrested For RuneScape MMORPG Online Robbery

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday November 30, 2009 @01:41AM from the doing-pretend-work-for-pretend-boots dept.

Unexpof writes "A man has been arrested by the British Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU), accused of stealing the usernames and passwords from players of the RuneScape MMORPG. Security experts report that this is one of the first occasions when a Brit has been apprehended for 'virtual robbery,' although incidents have happened in the past. For instance, the CEO of the sci-fi trading game EVE Online stole 200 billion 'kredits,' which he then used as a deposit on a real-world house, and in October last year a Japanese woman was arrested by police after allegedly hacking her virtual husband 'to death.'"

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HELP! by p51d007 · 2009-11-30 02:15 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Ok, it's official...the world is INSANE!
Re:The difference is by kv9 · 2009-11-30 04:58 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I'd just like to chime in and say that both the submitter and the editor (hi taco!) are fucking retarded. fuck karma.

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