Teen arrested for virtual theft lol

[Hellfighter]

Teen arrested for virtual theft

Dutch police have arrested a teenager who stole £2,500 worth of virtual furniture from an online hotel.

Authorities said in what was the first case of its kind the 17-year-old was arrested after playing Habbo Hotel - an international game and online community with an estimated seven million members.

The game, which has individual communities in 31 countries and a yearly turnover of £3 million, allows players to create virtual characters, or Habbos. These characters can take their own rooms in the hotel, which they can then decorate with their own furniture.

The furniture is purchased with special Habbo credits but the credits are paid for with real money.

The teenager had hacked into the accounts of other Habbo community members and taken their furniture and put it in his own room.

The 17-year-old has been charged with hacking and burglary.

A spokesman for Sulake, the company that operates Habbo Hotel, said: "The accused lured victims into handing over their Habbo passwords by creating fake Habbo websites.

"In Habbo, as in many other virtual worlds, scamming for other people's personal information such as user names has been problematic for quite a while.

"We have had much of this scamming going on in many countries but this is the first case where the police have taken legal action."

source: http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm...s.strangecrime
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some ask for it dink dink

[EDGE]

haha, nice. I mean, I guess its not as bad as I thought it was. It is justifiable. Except he didn't actually hack...he tricked morons. He did steal stuff that people payed money for so it is burglary as well. Although it does seem a bit stupid for the police to get involved. I wonder which one of his friends ran their mouth off enough for it to get around to the police.

[ShArP]

lol wow the Dutch are hard core

[katana*GFR*]

Originally posted by ShArP
lol wow the Dutch are hard core

And its getting even worse..

Some time ago some 18+ rated films and video's of Manon Tomas were stolen from her laptop..
Now the government is going to make a law that anyone publishing stolen films and photo's on the web will be able to be prosecuted..

[Hellfighter]

i can wait to see some one get jail time for some virtual online game rape or saying they going to kill some one they are in a virtual game server lol