11 Chinese jailed for highjacking WoW accounts

[zhongguohua88]

China jails 11 members of suspected malware gang over online game hacking

Thursday, December 24, 2009

A Chinese court sentenced 11 cyber criminals to prison terms of up to three years for stealing passwords and login information from over five million players of online video games.

The Chartered Institute for IT reports that the two ringleaders of the group, Lv Yizhong and Zeng Yifu, were found guilty of creating the spyware virus that enabled the theft, while others received sentences for their role in the distribution and use of the malware. The institute also reports that the two malware writers received more than $94,000 for their efforts, while two accomplices made roughly half of that.

PC World reports that other Chinese cyber criminals have recently been targeted by the authorities, including a hacker who attempted to take down a rival website with a DDoS attack.

Experts say that online games like World of Warcraft are rich targets for cyber criminals, who can use hijacked user accounts to steal virtual goods and money for trade on the thriving online black market that exists for such items. The World of Warcraft gold piece even has a stable exchange rate against the U.S. dollar.

I recently read this in local newspapers and thought it was quite interesting.

[Fursphere]

Experts say that online games like World of Warcraft are rich targets for cyber criminals, who can use hijacked user accounts to steal virtual goods and money for trade on the thriving online black market that exists for such items. The World of Warcraft gold piece even has a stable exchange rate against the U.S. dollar.

So.... they asked a 5 year old?

[F9thRet]

lol @ fur.

Have you ever had a conversation with these Chinese sells people? First they try and mine information from ya. Then they play the opposite gender thing.

Somewhere, I'll have to find it, I have a screenshot with one, where upon she reveals she is a lady, from the Orient, It soon devolves into how the wife castrated me, due to coming home with Syphilis too many times. So I can't buy Gold, I have to save my money for Antibiotics, and surgery.

I didn't get bothered by the gold spammers for a long time after that.

Stephen

[Basilikos]

Wait, what? You mean it's not the evil multiboxers stealing all those accounts and selling them after leveling five shaman at a time? Who would have thought...