One thing we took away from all this — people still play RuneScape?
Apparently people do, and the virtual in-game currency (read: fake money) is worth breaking the law for.
CNA reported that Lee See Hao, 24, was sentenced to a year’s probation after paying an acquaintance 120 million gold pieces in RuneScape in exchange for hacking into the online accounts of men involved with his ex-girlfriend.
It was revealed in court that Lee, then 20, had broken up with his ex-girlfriend back in 2016. He found out that she changed the security settings of her email account, which he had access to during their relationship.
Lee found out that a 23-year-old friend of his ex-girlfriend had helped to change the security settings. He then sought the assistance of an individual he knew as Jake, a friend he met online in RuneScape, to hack into the man’s email account.
