For stealing virtual character in a multiplayer game, you can go to jail for 2 years

About a year ago Murmansk professional gamer, whose name was not disclosed, discovered that his character on "name» BSL in. game LineAgeII «taken away." The player spent several years in the game and "pump" their BSL to what has become the biggest player in LineAgeII. Russia. Chagrin theft character was so great that the gamer has gone to the police and filed a statement of Murmansk.

Police in the course of the year to investigate and discovered that traces of hacker attacks carried out in the city of Volgodonsk. Twenty hacker for stealing virtual character after the court decision is likely to go to the very real Russian prison. He faces a real deprivation of liberty for up to two years, according to the article. 272 of the Criminal Code ("Illegal access to computer information»).

via factroom.ru