A hacker has been arrested for stealing players' identities, skills, weapons and virtual money in an online computer game.
In the first case of its kind, the 23-year-old man was held for hijacking hundreds of teenage boys' accounts to gain access to their hard-won virtual abilities.
The boys were taking part in RuneScape, a medieval fantasy game which has more than 100million players worldwide.
23 year old man? made me laugh.
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Runscape computer hacker arrested
Last edited by xxMATTGxx; 06-01-2010 at 08:45 PM.
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Nice to see the police are protecting our Runescape accounts now, I'm serious.
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Now I gotta pw protect my phisher logs
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Don't see why this is news really, if the player paid for membership the hacker has stolen from him, he is being arrested for stealing, not hacking, otherwise the arrest is just plain stupid.
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you dont even play anymore.
Originally Posted by Mint
Nice to see the police are protecting our Runescape accounts now, I'm serious.
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anyone who falls for that deserves to be hacked.Police believe the hacker obtained password details through a so-called phishing scam where a fake internet page tricks users into handing over their personal information.
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i dont think he should be arrested, he phished them not hacked, they willingly gave him there infos
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ILL GET OUT OF THERE PRISON ONE DAY!
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It says on that webpage ''A RuneScape account was recently sold on eBay for £46,000.00.'' What on earth? what account was this?
Who would spend that much on a game? absolutely crazy.PSN: StefanWolves
Add me if you play COD Black Ops or Fifa 11.
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