Hacker, I would like to tell you a story of a 15 year old boy who works at his schools theatre, known throughout the town for the amazing productions it puts on which it systematically takes to huge events fairs such as the Edinburgh or Prague Fringe festival. The aforementioned teenager is head lighting technician and works stupidly long hours, getting only a few hours sleep a night. All his school work is pushed back, and enjoyable things such as runescape are out of the question. Imagine his surprise when the director called a dark night and everyone took the day off. The boy did all his assignments and work, then logged onto runescape to find that his account had been locked as it was suspected stolen. Upon completeing the form to unlock it, the boy logged in and wondered why he was standing in Lumbridge bank, when he was last training in the warriors guild, incredibly happy that he had just reached lvl 70 att, def and str, and could FINALLY wear the full dharoks he had been hording for 3 months, given to him, along with a dark bow, a whip and a white party hat and 5mil, by a dear friend who had been playing for a few years and had finally quit. He was also happy because he had just got his rune defender and level 60 mage and had completed desert treasure, hence why he had thousands of runes in his bank, along with a mud staff and other valuable items such as a mage amulet (t). Then he looks at his character. His dragon platelegs, dragon med helm, d2h, d long, d dagger p++, d spear, d mace, gmaul and abyssal whip, zamorak trimmed rune platebody, obsidian cape and amulet of glory and ring of wealth. Fearfully, he checks his bank account and sees..... nothing. Absolutely nothing. Not even a bucket or a feather. All his hard earned money, around 20mil of it, which he had strove for by runecrafting, woodcutting, and fletching for had gone. Even the non tradeable items and random event costumes were gone. Bearing in mind this was about 3am in the morning and he was exhausted, he broke down and cried, silently thinking of the year and a half he had spent on the game, the ̢̮â¬Å¡Ãâã30 of membership fees he had payed for 6 months worth of members, and the sheer amount of time it had taken him to reach where he was, a proud level 87, finally able to call himself a non-noob. It crushed him and he quit. He didn't have the heart to do it again. Now, I'm not whining or begging, like some people do when they're hacked, but I want people to know how it feels to have so much ripped away from you without a second thought. Yes, ok, it's just a game, and they're just pixels, but it's the sentimental value that counts. Some of my small fortune was given to me by a very old friend who had quit, and when I told him I had been hacked his face fell, for it was his stuff that had been stolen too. He had been a member for about 2 years. That's ̢̮â¬Å¡Ãâã120 of his hard earned cash from his paper round just wasted. As far as I'm aware, I have never entered the password I use on runescape anywhere except runescape itself, for it is totally different to all my other passwords, and I'm not foolish enough to use it on (for example) an RS gold site, for a start it's against the rules and also I'm, quite simply, not that stupid. I have no idea how the hacker would have got hold of my password, bearing in mind that programmes that "Hack" into Jagex's password database are non existant. I hope through writing this people will realise what it's like for someone to be hacked, so whilst I hope you don't give into beggars that much more from it, you will be a little more sympathetic to people who have been hacked. I fully apologise to anyone who I've told to go away and beg elsewhere because, after all, "They're only pixels" Will (formerly the reasonably popular and happy runescaper, Nutta86)