LOCKING YOUR FRONT door may no longer be enough to keep burglars at bay. Italian detectives are investigating a crime in which items including a jacuzzi, paintings, mirrors and furniture were stolen from a ‘virtual’ house.
Paola Letizia from Palermo, Italy, reported the virtual crime to police after a Facebook ‘home’ she had built up for her virtual cat in a game called Pet Society was ransacked. An online thief hacked into Letizia’s account to steal the €120 worth of items she had gathered by playing the game and shopping in Pet Society’s virtual shops.
If the hacker is caught, he or she could be open to a charge of making an “illegal and aggravated entry” into Letizia’s email account. That charge carries a potential prison sentence of anything up to five years in Italy.
Switched.com is reporting that the hacker did, however, leave Letizia’s virtual cat – Blue Cat – behind.
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