Welsh teen guilty of virtual money theft from RuneScape
A Welsh teenager has been found guilty of computer misuse offences relating to the theft of virtual currency from a RuneScape account. Nineteen year old Kieron Belmont of no fixed abode was staying on a friend's sofa at the time of the offence. The two fell out and after his host had gone to bed Belmont logged onto her computer and got into her partner's RuneScape account. He then traded away the credits which had taken six years to accumulate. He left early the next morning, taking two bottles of booze with him. Defence solicitor Stuart John told Swansea Magistrates' Court: "He saw an....
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