21
year-old Australian man Shane Duffy stands accused of hacking into a
Riot Games server, accessing player data then selling that information
for thousands of dollars.
Local
police say that his arrest comes at the conclusion of a six-month
investigation, which included assistance from the FBI. They allege Duffy
used the data to sell player's IP addresses, which could be used by
opponents (or pranksters) to launch DDOS attacks against them.
Police also claim that 880 separate payments for the data were made to Duffy just last month.
Shane's
mother, however, disputes the Police's side of the story. Saying that
her son has Asperger's syndrome - and that he stopped going to school in
the 4th grade "because the education system did not want him" - she
admits that while his advanced computer skills made him "capable" of the
crime, the information he accessed had already been leaked online by
others.
Kotaku
contacted Riot Games for comment, and were told by a company
spokesperson "We work with law enforcement professionals around the
world to protect our players, people, and technology because we take
security and data privacy very seriously. We don't comment on active or
pending legal matters."
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