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Lineage: Farmers and/or Two-boxers Commit Identity Theft @ Gamasutra

(PC: MMORPG) | Posted by Wildefire @ Thursday - February 16, 2006 - 19:53 -
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A recent report explains that up to 500 Korean players of Lineage and Lineage II used illegally-obtained personal information so they could get addtional accounts to those games. The information was only used to create the accounts, not to pay for them. The report isn't extremely clear, but it sounds like players of those games are only allowed one account each... I'm guessing that players who like to two-box (run more than one instance of the game simultaneously) or more likely, professional farmers, are to blame.
According to NCsoft, around 500 users in the game are playing using the stolen data, which together with stolen mobile phone data was enough to register new accounts. Those whose hacked personal information was used to create the illegal accounts had never played the games before, and were unaware that their information had been used until the reports began to surface.

The source of the leaked data appears to have been an online shopping site, which like many Korean sites requires personal data to complete the transactions. News of the identity data leak has brought criticism of the standard policy of obtaining personal information when shopping, despite a general consensus among the online vendors themselves that the data is unnecessary.
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