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already over · Mar 19, 2011

Hi everybody,

You may be aware that a player with a considerable amount of in-game wealth was hijacked recently. We donâ€™t want to invade that playerâ€™s privacy by naming names, but we understand that this topic is raising a lot of discussion among the community.

As soon as we became aware of the situation we acted quickly banning the hijackerâ€™s accounts as well as removing any items & wealth stolen.

Unauthorised access to online accounts whether it is your bank account or your RuneScape account is a criminal offence, it is illegal in the UK under the Computer Misuse Act 1990, and the USAâ€™s Computer Fraud and Abuse Act 1986 as well as equivalent legislation in many other countries around the world. Jagex have already successfully pursued a RuneScape hijacker in the UK using the above law. You can read about it on the BBC news website.

We want to send a clear message that hijacking is not clever and will not do you any favours, it is an illegal act and we regularly send information onto local law enforcement agencies.

Currently we do not return lost/stolen items. This is why it is so important to make sure your account is as secure as possible.

Make sure you do the following;

Set a Bank Pin. This will help protect your items if the worst happens and somebody accesses your account.
Set a Email Address to your account to help recover your account and secure it from others trying to gain access to it.
Choose tough Passwords that arenâ€™t easy to guess or very common.
Donâ€™t input your Username/Password into other websites! The only website you should use your RuneScape Username/Password for is the main RuneScape website.

Mod Mark H
On behalf of the RuneScape Player Support Team
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The arrest could be the first of many targeting fraudsters, said Jagex

A British man has been arrested and cautioned for stealing accounts for online game Runescape.
Jagex, creator of Runescape, said it was likely to be the first of several arrests as it tackled in-game fraud.
Online game Runescape has more than 100 million active players and play revolves around collecting and spending virtual cash and loot.
The company said it was working with UK police and the FBI to track down and catch those targeting Runescape.
Crime trail
A statement from the Police National e-crime unit said: "A 23-year-old man was arrested in Avon and Somerset on the morning of Tuesday 24 November by officers from the Police Central e-crime Unit, on suspicion of a number of computer misuse offences."
The offences are believed to be for using phishing e-mails to trick people into handing over login details for Runescape accounts.

Hi-tech thieves target online games because virtual goods are easy to launder
Once hi-tech thieves have these credentials they plunder the accounts, strip characters of their items and sell off the rare virtual goods for Runescape gold. This virtual money can be traded to others in-game or sold for real world cash.
Current underground exchange rates suggest that 2m Runescape gold costs about Â£6 ($10).
"We have pinned down and identified the handful of ring leaders and we are going after them with both barrels," Mark Gerhard, chief executive of Jagex told BBC News.
"Any online games company will tell you that as soon as the game has value, there's a very small foreign element that tries to exploit that value," he said.
Mr Gerhard said the arrest on 24 November was not the result of something that happened the day before. It was one result, he said, of a long term investigation that had sought out those behind the phishing attack that caught out a "few thousand" Runescape players.
The biggest audience for Runescape is in the US and UK and Mr Gerhard said it was working with forces in both nations to track down the virtual thieves. He predicted that there would be more arrests as Jagex knew the handful of people behind the crimes and where they were based.
Laundering cash
Trade in Runescape game gold is against the terms and conditions of the game and Jagex has made many changes to its underlying code to stamp out gold farming in which players repeat activities that generate lots of virtual cash or valuable items.
Mr Gerhard said its efforts to tackle gold-farming may have forced the thieves to try a different approach.
"Once you close one vulnerability you move the attack surface to another part," he said. Jagex's efforts to tackle farming had removed 90% of the problem, said Mr Gerhard.
"They were going directly after the user credentials and trying to get at the wealth that way," he said.
"Players invest years of time and effort into developing their Runescape character so the theft of a Runescape account shouldn't be treated differently to the theft of any other valuable possessions such as a games console, television or car," he said.
Alisdair Faulkner, a computer security expert at ThreatMetrix, said it was seeing many more hi-tech thieves turn to stealing virtual rather than real goods.
Virtual goods were much easier to launder and dispose of than tangible items such as flat screens and computers, he said. It was a particular problem in Asia where the sales of virtual game goods were well established.
Many thieves stole credentials from networks of hijacked home computers - known as botnets - or used them as proxies to make the theft look like it was coming from a legitimate source.
"For some of these botnets their sole purpose is to act as a gateway to help fraudsters," he said.
ISPs, merchants and other firms were using ways to pierce a proxy and find out who was really in charge of it, said Mr Faulkner.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8386003.stm
http://services.runescape.com/m=forum/forums.ws?14,15,106,62560262

Blue Gamer · Mar 19, 2011

Hes an idiot tbh, Hacking accounts is low. IDC if im on a cheating site or what.

And he was even dumber trading all the items to hes account and then even dumber doing it on hes IP.

A dumb kid that got luck when trying to recover some ones account.

Thanks for the info =] Hope he gets charged.

HappyFace01010 · Mar 19, 2011

The BBC link has been posted hundreds of times and is over a year old. Jagex cant really do that much because people use proxy over proxy and it would end up using too much resources tracking all the hackers down.

already over · Mar 19, 2011

When I first saw threads of Chessy getting hacked I thought they were BS, but then I read teh J Mod's post.

TahBreezy · Mar 19, 2011

That's quite a lot of riches.

Tiemen · Mar 19, 2011

Didn't the 'hacker' recover the account? Which means jagex actually gave him access, or is that just a dumb rumour?

Zaqwsx · Mar 19, 2011

Lol damn, sucks for that guy.

RidinSwangaz · Mar 19, 2011

HOLD THE FUCK UP! This stupid bitch gets hacked, & they do something about that what about every fucking one else???

HappyFace01010 · Mar 19, 2011

Tiemen said: ↑

Didn't the 'hacker' recover the account? Which means jagex actually gave him access, or is that just a dumb rumour?
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Yeah, pretty much. The thing is though, jagex cant stop it.

nothingmore · Mar 19, 2011

RidinSwangaz said: ↑

HOLD THE FUCK UP! This stupid bitch gets hacked, & they do something about that what about every fucking one else???
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They didn't have enough gp so they don't care about them low ballers.

Cripple pker · Mar 19, 2011

Tbh I think ddosers should get in more trouble than this guy. Even so fraud on a game is not much of a crime he wont do much it, was probably worth it.

sith kid · Mar 19, 2011

I don't believe she got the items back.

Insidious Insinuations · Mar 19, 2011

Stop reposting this shit over and over; this is like the 100th time it's been posted.

PANiC* · Mar 19, 2011

wow, only if i could sell that for irl cash. oh how happy id be

Kabal · Mar 19, 2011

RidinSwangaz said: ↑

HOLD THE FUCK UP! This stupid bitch gets hacked, & they do something about that what about every fucking one else???
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They aren't returning any of her mills so calm down bro

helpmeman · Mar 19, 2011

Current underground exchange rates suggest that 2m Runescape gold costs about Â£6 ($10).
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Bwahahahahahaahahah this must've happened a while ago...

Also, at $5 a mill, they aren't going to pursue anyone who only stole like $20 worth of stuff. This guy stole about $850,000 worth of merchandise, if my calculations are correct (not bad for 1 scam lol!).

Arcaida · Mar 19, 2011

RidinSwangaz said: ↑

HOLD THE FUCK UP! This stupid bitch gets hacked, & they do something about that what about every fucking one else???
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Maybe because she had 170b? 170b is definitely something, if your account with 100m gets hacked, the J Mods would say secure your account next time and leave you alone to your miseries. But 170b is definitely something for someone who is playing legit.

Cripple pker said: ↑

Tbh I think ddosers should get in more trouble than this guy. Even so fraud on a game is not much of a crime he wont do much it, was probably worth it.
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Nope, crime or common fraud is easier to catch, I've seen people scamming online in Asian regions for other games and they got caught by cops too and fined. So next time you think about scamming, think twice and don't do it. Scamming is low ball and just earns you nothing but a one-way ticket to the jail.

PANiC* said: ↑

wow, only if i could sell that for irl cash. oh how happy id be
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1000 santa hats is enough to manipulate the market...

Austintheman · Mar 19, 2011

All fingers are pointed to Jagex for being retarded.

shawnwill1210 · Mar 19, 2011

wow that would suck to lose that much

ShockWaveee · Mar 19, 2011

Cripple pker said: ↑

Tbh I think ddosers should get in more trouble than this guy. Even so fraud on a game is not much of a crime he wont do much it, was probably worth it.
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How was it worth it? He lost all the items from Chessy's account, and all of his accounts are now banned. Even if you were to completely neglect the fact he's probably gonna get a pretty hefty fine or a small amount of jail time, that's already a loss.

On topic:

This guy is seriously really stupid. If he thought he had any chance whatsoever of hacking this account, why in the HELL did he not buy a VPN/VPS to do this shit on? Did he really think this was no big deal? And why put all of that onto one account. I would've created literally 20-30 mules, that guy is retarded.

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