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Hacker robbed woman's Facebook 'home' - but left her virtual cat
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Police vow to catch hacker who burgled woman’s Facebook ‘home’ burgled in online game.
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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