Just imagine. You’ve spent years building up your career as a warrior, working your way up the social scale to earn kudos and riches beyond your wildest dreams only to have it all snatched away in the night.
Now we may just be talking about virtual world computer game Runescape here. And if you’re tempted to say, ‘get a life’ then that’s exactly what one computer hacker did.
It turns out there are thousands of real-life pounds to be made from second-life virtual games and the hacker involved in this particular ‘identity fraud’ has been arrested for his sins in the first case of its like in the UK. Read on…
