A news case of virtual theft in Japan dwarfs the arrest of virtual burglar of Dutch Habbo Hotel: a teenager from Fukui illegaly obtained the ID and password from a former employee of Korean MMO-company Nexon to steal the virtual equivalent of 36 million Yen, roughly a whopping US$ 340.000, in Nexon’s MMO Mabinogi.
As Game|Life reports: “Obviously the Tokyo Metropolitan Police are treating this as a serious offense, but it will be interesting to see if it’s handled as the equivalent of the theft of a similar amount of real-world currency. One could argue that technically none of the stolen goods actually exist, though an argument could also be made in the opposite direction.“
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