Hacker gang arrested for stealing from online game players
According to Korean media reports, authorities in the country arrested a gang of hackers today suspected of stealing from online game players and hacking popular websites to seed password stealers.
A 37-year-old man named Lee is said to have hired eight Chinese hackers who installed Trojan horses on popular Korean websites and are said to have stolen 50,000 usernames and passwords in May.
Another 37-year-old, named Cho, is alleged to have launched a denial-of-service attack against a popular massively multi-player online role-playing game (MMORPG) website and stole $150,000 in "cyber-money" from users of the game. A man named Kim, 22, is said to have used a Trojan horse to have stolen $50,000 in "cyber-money".
In the last couple of weeks, the media has reported that MSN Korea's website had been hacked and malicious code planted that would steal from players of the popular "Lineage" fantasy online game.
