First arrest for virtual property theft in the Netherlands

[rhogenbe]

The following link is in Dutch so i will give a short English description of what is on it.
Eerste aanhouding wegens virtuele diefstal

A 17 year has hacked several accounts in the game Habbo Hotel and stole property worth approx €4000,-. Habbo Hotel called the police about this and the person was arrested.

In Habbo Hotel you have an avatar and you can buy Habbo-credits with real money and use the Habbo-credits to buy furniture for a room you room can buy. This is similar to buying peds in Entropia Universe.

The person is charged with both hacking and theft since the Habbo-credits represent real money.

This is good news for the dutch entropia universe players who get hacked. This because there is now a legal precedent which can be used.

Cheers
Richard
(ingame Siam)

[Pretender]

only thing is, youll have to get MA to call the police for you, or atleast thats what i read in the story on nu.nl

[Crone]

This is great )

And about MindArk call the police ... Crone could call the police and the police MA or call MA at the pollice office.

It's a start.

[Electic]

Damn You beat me by 2 minutes

RL arrest for virual crime

I guess my post can be deleted

Electic "Dutchy" Power

[Vedder]

Originally Posted by rhogenbe

The following link is in Dutch so i will give a short English description of what is on it.
Eerste aanhouding wegens virtuele diefstal

A 17 year has hacked several accounts in the game Habbo Hotel and stole property worth approx €4000,-. Habbo Hotel called the police about this and the person was arrested.

In Habbo Hotel you have an avatar and you can buy Habbo-credits with real money and use the Habbo-credits to buy furniture for a room you room can buy. This is similar to buying peds in Entropia Universe.

The person is charged with both hacking and theft since the Habbo-credits represent real money.

This is good news for the dutch entropia universe players who get hacked. This because there is now a legal precedent which can be used.

Cheers
Richard
(ingame Siam)

Yay

It's about time. Let's hope other countries police forces start taking virtual theft seriously too soon

[rhogenbe]

True, but since it recognises theft of virtual items and money as real theft I would guess that as the owner of an account i could also go to the police.

Cheers
Richard
(ingame Siam)

[rhogenbe]

Originally Posted by Electic

Damn You beat me by 2 minutes

RL arrest for virual crime

I guess my post can be deleted

Electic "Dutchy" Power

Yes, i saw.

We must have been writing it at the same time.

Cheers
Richard
(ingame Siam)

[CycoKick]

There have been 8 reports this year in Holland.

This will probably be the first to go to court.

[Konvicted]

Who said you could steal people and be safe behind your computer ?
This time is over thanksfully !! I'm going str8 to the police dept asap

[dr_udi]

I have emailed the Swedish police about this just out of curiosity and the reply I got was that a crime is a crime even if its in a online. They told me to make a police report if anything would happened and the "IT-Police" would investigate this.

I referred to online poker as an example cause I didn't think they ever heard of Entropia, both are in the same league with real money involved.

Police do take virtual theft just as seriously as irl ones.

/Udi