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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Re:Well done to all involved. by Dumnezeu · 2009-11-30 02:51 · Score: 0, Troll

As the way you're currently modded (Troll) should be held up as an example of what happens to your comment when people simply disagree with it.

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