Mainland Chinese are becoming famous for their hacking and farming capabilities. The latest: a South Korean network security company tracks down a ring of virtual item hackers participating in mass theft from tens of thousands of South Korean “Lineage” players:
During the period from May 2005 to February
2006, South Korea reported about 4,000 online game theft cases, in
which South Korean online gamers were hacked via hacking programs known
as malware and lost their online game accounts, passwords, as well as
virtual items.