Account Breach incident

Ah, that was me, not Niet - see the "last edited by" :p Thank you for pointing that out, though - my mistake!

You can't really expect anything else since this person is just a common criminal. You don't treat thieves with silk gloves in real life, so why would online be any different? Tbh, they stole real money from real people so I really wish they could be tried for theft in an actual court. That's all they really deserve, along with a mark on their criminal record. Probably not happening, but... wishful thinking. Here's to hoping the victims get recompensated.

Technically they didn’t steal any real money. The law is forever behind technology, and that extends to this as well. They stole virtual goods, basically numbers and pixels on a screen, something not really prosecutable (you can try to sue, but it’s sort of a grey area in the law). Every time they received money the person who paid the money received their compensation, even if it was stolen. This sucks, I know, try writing to your local public official about this. Edit: Relevant article on this topic, for those interested. The Netherlands and Japan have punished people for virtual crime before, so at least they’re ahead of the curve.

From what I understand they sold items to people and charged actual money via Paypal, as Niet stated above. The true amount of what they gained isn't really known, as it's probably hard to calculate how much they've gained from selling stolen goods. Even so, it is still a game and such can't really be disputed as theft, at least not to my knowledge. EDIT: While they did steal virtual goods, some of these goods were sold for real money which tecnhcailly does count as theft in a sense. I'm not really into/well versed with the legal area so I might be missing stuff here and there, but from what I understand it still does count as theft.

CatEnergetic, you have to take into consideration of laws from different countries. Pokefarm has people from all over, not just one country. You would have to go and research extensively of laws of where that person is from, and what your own country laws when it comes to theft of digital goods. Don't take my word for it, but I believe it would be more hassle and potienally money to go after someone from a different country legally. Again, that's just my opinion about it.

Ahh I totally forgot about other countries, thank you for reminding me! I agree, it would be a huge hassle trying to figure out each transaction and the laws of other countries. Especially with the amount of money that was involved, it'd be a lot of legal work which means a lot of fees to pay laywers, etc, aka big yikes.

Thats just awful I feel realy bad for the people who lost stuff and I hope they get what the lost returned to them. Stealing is unacceptable and dishonest in every way. I may be new to the site but I know this fact. If you steal you are being dishonest and should be ashamed of stealing. Thankfuly I have never bought ZC so I am okay. It just makes me glad not to have any ZC for the time being.

I was thinking about going and spamming the user for what they did but now theres kinds no point

This is not okay in the slightest and will result in site consequences should it be done. Garthic has already given a warning to not spam this user because of their actions.

It's really sad to see that staff usually not makeing the name of users public who caused some sort of problem on the site does have a really good reason after all...