Woman arrested for deleting ex's game data

A WOMAN who was miffed that her boyfriend had left her, used his online user name and password to access an Internet game and delete his game data.

When the long term player of the online game Lineage found he had lost all his virtual weapons and clothes in the online raid he went to the police to have her arrested.

According to the Mainichi Daily News, the woman, in her thirties, and the man, in his twenties, met each other through the game in autumn 2003, and started a relationship. They did actually meet each other, but they soon broke up.

Japanese police say the woman told them she had done it out of revenge for being spurned. They didn't charge her with theft but used a hacking law which forbids illegal access to computers.

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