There was already a story of 2 kids having to do community service for hacking an an online game for pixels.

 

http://www.nos.nl/nosjournaal/artikelen ... fstal.html

 

 

 

Now I women is arrested for killing her ex-husband on an online game.

 

 

 

TOKYO, Japan (AP) -- A 43-year-old Japanese woman whose sudden divorce in a virtual game world made her so angry that she killed her online husband's digital persona has been arrested on suspicion of hacking, police said Thursday.

 

 

 

The woman, who is jailed on suspicion of illegally accessing a computer and manipulating electronic data, used his identification and password to log onto popular interactive game "Maple Story" to carry out the virtual murder in mid-May, a police official in northern Sapporo said on condition of anonymity, citing department policy.

 

 

 

"I was suddenly divorced, without a word of warning. That made me so angry," the official quoted her as telling investigators and admitting the allegations.

 

 

 

The woman had not plotted any revenge in the real world, the official said.

 

 

 

She has not yet been formally charged, but if convicted could face a prison term of up to five years or a fine up to $5,000.

 

 

 

Players in "Maple Story" raise and manipulate digital images called "avatars" that represent themselves, while engaging in relationships, social activities and fighting against monsters and other obstacles.

 

 

 

The woman used login information she got from the 33-year-old office worker when their characters were happily married, and killed the character. The man complained to police when he discovered that his beloved online avatar was dead.

 

 

 

The woman was arrested Wednesday and was taken across the country, traveling 620 miles from her home in southern Miyazaki to be detained in Sapporo, where the man lives, the official said.

 

 

 

The police official said he did not know if she was married in the real world.

 

 

 

In recent years, virtual lives have had consequences in the real world. In August, a woman was charged in Delaware with plotting the real-life abduction of a boyfriend she met through "Second Life," another virtual interactive world.

 

 

 

In Tokyo, police arrested a 16-year-old boy on charges of swindling virtual currency worth $360,000 in an interactive role playing game by manipulating another player's portfolio using a stolen ID and password.

 

 

 

Virtual games are popular in Japan, and "Second Life" has drawn a fair number of Japanese participants. They rank third by nationality among users, after Americans and Brazilians.

 

 

 

Are these actions being taken way to seriously?

viewtopic.php?f=10&t=766986.

 

http://www.sleepywood.net/forum/showthread.php?t=

 

 

 

Honestly, this has been posted so many times on every forum I use =.=

y so serius?

At first I thought they meant she killed his character in pvp and got arrested for it.

 

 

 

That would have been worth a lmao or two.

At first I thought they meant she killed his character in pvp and got arrested for it.

 

 

 

That would have been worth a lmao or two.

 

 

 

That's what happened, she got on his maple story account and "killed" it

At first I thought they meant she killed his character in pvp and got arrested for it.

 

 

 

That would have been worth a lmao or two.

 

 

 

That's what happened, she got on his maple story account and "deleted" it

 

Fixed

well its a form of abuse

 

adult bullying happens :shame:

It's already in off topic... gf ;)

y so serius?

 

 

 

Let's put a smile on that face!

I did not know that hacking a game was illegal, that seems way too harsh for the loss of something which is basically worthless.

Wow 5 years in prison for that >.>

At first I thought they meant she killed his character in pvp and got arrested for it.

 

 

 

That would have been worth a lmao or two.

 

 

 

That's what happened, she got on his maple story account and "killed" it

 

 

 

I mean I thought she pked his character in pvp (player vs player).

I just can't belive the guy wen't to the police. Thats like someone stealing my RS account and me going to the police station. Even more unbeliveable is they actualy arrested her even though she had gotten the log in information from the man in the first place. The man should be banned from all games where you have an avatar and the woman should be flown back to wherever she came from and left to live on a marry life and should be banned from maple story.

 

 

 

And she killed his avatar by loging into his account, not by killing his charecter in pvp with her own account.

Wow. Pixel-jacking.

 

 

 

No comments #-o

Well its breaking the Computer Misuse Act because she gained access to someone else's account. This is hacking, just as if she went on his computer and deleted every file on his hard disk.

 

 

 

Nothing special IMO

Yeah, is there some rule on maple story that if you log in from a different country of the world then the one you log in from 99% of the time, the account gets locked?

 

 

 

I dont get the term 'The character got killed because the woman logged onto it'.

Yeah, is there some rule on maple story that if you log in from a different country of the world then the one you log in from 99% of the time, the account gets locked?

 

 

 

I dont get the term 'The character got killed because the woman logged onto it'.

 

 

 

She deleted the character.

Yeah, is there some rule on maple story that if you log in from a different country of the world then the one you log in from 99% of the time, the account gets locked?

 

 

 

I dont get the term 'The character got killed because the woman logged onto it'.

 

 

 

She deleted the character.

 

 

 

Ah ok. :wall:

 

 

 

*Feels dumb* :roll:

I did not know that hacking a game was illegal, that seems way too harsh for the loss of something which is basically worthless.

 

 

 

I've payed $120 over 2 years for my RS account and countless hours for my levels. It's not worthless.

he shouldn't have given her his password

 

 

 

numbnuts

 

 

 

there's not crime there though

 

i would have just quit maplestory (which i did a long time ago because it sucked)

wooow 4th topic about this.

 

 

 

i smell a

 

There is already a topic on this in Off Topic.

 

 

 

http://forum.tip.it/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=766986

 

 

 

Have fun.

 

~Locked~