Hackers Stole 1 Million IDs for Online Game

[Maxtor]

The popular online game Lineage has led to the online theft of no fewer than 1 million identities, a police investigation has revealed. The police’s Cyber Terror Response Center said Monday its analysis of Lineage accounts created between October 2005 and Feb.14 this year revealed that anywhere between 980,000 and 1.22 million of them were set up in the name of Internet users who never signed up to play the game. Most of them were created in China, a check of the IP addresses revealed

 

However, police have so far been unable to discover which websites such a massive number of users’ names and ID numbers were stolen from, except that some 3,000 of them were leaked from a used-car trading site.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Police said hackers using the stolen IDs routed their access to the game through the websites of schools and public bodies in Korea to conceal the fact that they operated from China. Police have asked Chinese authorities for help in tracking down the hackers, who are suspected of conducting the massive fraud as a way of obtaining game weaponry and other virtual “items.” Enthusiasts of massive multi-player online role-play games, or MMORPG, pay surprisingly large sums of money for such items on trading sites to obtain shortcuts to new levels in the game. NC Soft, the maker of the game, is under investigation for aiding and abetting the ID theft.

 

 

 

Source:here

[Maxtor]

Chinese hackers accused of mass theft relating to online game Lineage in South Korea

 

 

 

Chinese hackers were accused of being involve in the recent mass theft of private information from tens of thousands of people linked to the popular online game "Lineage" in South Korea. The game is operated by NCSoft. The accusation is from GEOT, a network security company in South Korea. During the period from May 2005 to February 2006, South Korea reported about 4,000 online game theft cases, in which South Korean online gamers were hacked via hacking programs known as malware and lost their online game accounts, passwords, as well as virtual items, according to GEOT. The hacking programs are capable of stealing personal information, and was found to be embedded into certain websites, and would secretly infect the computers of internet users when they visited these websites. The malware allows hackers to find the login name and password of online games and sends them back automatically via email to Chinese websites. GEOT said that most of these programs were developed by Chinese hackers with the aim of stealing virtual items used in online games from South Korean players.

 

 

 

Source: https://www.hackinthebox.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=19378

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NCsoft sued for $230 million

 

 

 

Last month we reported that Chinese hackers were launching massive attacks against Korean gaming sites to gain account information. It now appears that these attacks were successful and a class action lawsuit has been filed in South Korea against NCsoft, the maker of many popular online games like Lineage, City of Heroes and Guild Wars. The suit alleges that around 224,000 people had their account information stolen in the past six month. The information was later used to create hundreds of thousands of new Lineage account. Thousands of illegally created accounts were used to create gold from killing online monsters and selling magical items, a process which in gamer speak is called, "gold farming". Gold farming has become a multi-million dollar business as people will pay $30 to $80 for a thousand in virtual gold that can be used to buy better equipment or abilities

 

 

 

Source: https://www.hackinthebox.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=19497

[setokaiba]

Oh my god...the thing that bothers me is that 230$kk is a lot maybe there will not be C5 ever...

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