Hacking; now punishable by law!

Ryan · **Posted:** December 1st, 2009, 9:17 am

Saw this in some newspaper today. It made me laugh to say the least:

If you can't see it, it says:

Quote:

A Briton stole virtual characters after hacking into the internet's biggest free multiplayer game. The unidentified cyber criminal nabbed characters - which players spend years creating in the 'medieval universe' - from the online RuneScape game. The thief, from Avon, Somerset, was cautioned by police after being arrested last Tuesday by officers from the Central Police e-Crime Unit.
"Our first and only concern is protecting our player community as we know the high value players place on their unique accounts," said Mark Gerhard, chief executive of Jagex Games, which launched RuneScape in 2001. It now has 100 million active players.

Yeah so now if you get caught hacking, you might end up in some juvenile detention facility in the middle of nowhere. I was suprised this managed to reach legal status, and I also lol'd at how they typo'd RuneScape as RunScape.

Adbot · **Posted:** December 1st, 2009, 9:17 am

Brimmk · **Posted:** December 1st, 2009, 9:20 am

serves him right I guess, but the fact that it actually ended up in the newspaper is interesting

CreepyPirate · **Posted:** December 1st, 2009, 11:59 am

Meanwhile some poor guy had his credit card details stolen and in exchange got a rather large bill. I really don't think a runescape account is important enough for them to be wasting there time myself.

Marking22 · **Posted:** December 1st, 2009, 6:30 pm

this is not the first time someone has been arrested for runescape stuff
but i hope more people get arrested cause it makes me lol

ultimasayan · **Posted:** December 3rd, 2009, 10:54 am

Doesn't matter what people are Hacking into...

Hacking is illegel from whatever you do with the other persons information, even if they just look at it is against the law, i mean Hacking hasn't got much different from stealing the consequences should still be the same... It's just one is physicalcally stealing and the other isn't. To me both should be treated with same respect.

Regnenth · **Posted:** December 3rd, 2009, 6:53 pm

why do people care about this in all reality? and this story amde me think of this:

Adbot · **Posted:** December 3rd, 2009, 6:53 pm

Krazy · **Posted:** December 4th, 2009, 5:40 am

Good thing no one on these forums hack..

So is someone changed someones password... This is punishible by law.. Even if the person willingly gave you the password? I mean if someone gave you the password. You have the right to change it.. So unless you actually "hack" the database you cant get into trouble

Owen1892 · **Posted:** December 4th, 2009, 6:54 am

Wow and that's in Britain only? Interesting article, I wonder how many people have been arrested/been on newspaper because of an online game.

PS: Don't forget about your 99 attack, Ryan.

joekid67 · **Posted:** December 4th, 2009, 8:32 am

thats insane, but good... honestly though runescape isnt as important as a credit card scam or other big things... but hey maybe they made an example out of that person

Ryan · **Posted:** December 4th, 2009, 11:14 am

Krazy wrote:

Good thing no one on these forums hack..

So is someone changed someones password... This is punishible by law.. Even if the person willingly gave you the password? I mean if someone gave you the password. You have the right to change it.. So unless you actually "hack" the database you cant get into trouble

I'm thinking he didn't give them the password, but they guessed it. In which case, yes the guy should be punished.

Owen1892 wrote:

PS: Don't forget about your 99 attack, Ryan.

I don't play RS anymore

Iron Maiden · **Posted:** December 4th, 2009, 8:42 pm

I'd love to see scammers in jail.

-Hey punks, what have you done to end up here?
-I killed 100 people
-I robbed a bank
-I STOLE A RUNESCAPE ACCOUNT LOOOL!!

Would be funny as hell.

It's too much. Getting arrested for stealing a pixel character? I mean c'mon. You should try to catch pedophiles and mass murderers instead of a bunch of 40 year old virgin living in their mom's basement hacking runescape accounts. Sure hacking is bad, but not enough for punishement, espiecally when you're speaking of a game account. Hacking should be punishable only when you hack into gouvernement's or FBI's computers, you know what I mean...

jsbrules2 · **Posted:** December 5th, 2009, 3:50 pm

finally, i've been hacked like 5 times by "friends"

Krazy · **Posted:** December 5th, 2009, 6:24 pm

If someone gives you the password to the account.. Or even hints at the password.. And you sucessfully logged into the account... You are not hacking.. Hacking is when you digatally mess with a server.. If you are password scamming and the noob is stupid enough to tell you the password.. They basically GAVE you the account.. Therefor your not hacking

Iron Maiden · **Posted:** December 5th, 2009, 9:19 pm

Krazy wrote:

If someone gives you the password to the account.. Or even hints at the password.. And you sucessfully logged into the account... You are not hacking.. Hacking is when you digatally mess with a server.. If you are password scamming and the noob is stupid enough to tell you the password.. They basically GAVE you the account.. Therefor your not hacking

It's almost the same thing as entering into someone else's house, but you have the key.

Jimbob James · **Posted:** December 6th, 2009, 4:38 am

Someone on Youtube found this article in a bus magazine >.<
Shame they can't even spell.