
Japanese police are pressing charges against a trio of teenagers for the odious crime of cheating in an online game, the nation’s first ever for this outrageous offence, after MapleStory publisher Nexon fingered them as thieving hackers.
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Tokyo-based former Magic: The Gathering card trading emporium and world’s largest BitCoin crypto-currency exchange Mt Gox has finally declared bankruptcy after losing 500 million dollars of BTC and pretending it was solvent for the better part of a year.
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Top Chinese portal Baidu has had its Japanese IME identified as a probable espionage tool after it transpired it is logging all Japanese text entered and sending it off to Baidu, causing such consternation that the government is warning against using it.
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Japan’s top BBS 2ch.net is reeling after being hacked, with the credit cards and personal details of tens of thousands of users leaked and their anonymity in tatters, and posting disabled across swathes of the site.
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Sony has been assuring gamers they will love playing under their real name on the PlayStation 4, worrying most gamers despite Sony’s rather dubious assurances that pseudonyms will be “supported.”
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The hacker police accuse of tricking them into forcing 4 people to confess to making online death threats (or “Yuuchan” as 2ch has taken to calling him) has been charged with aircraft hijacking related offences, as police were forced to release him after having failed to make their initial charges stick.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Feb 10, 2013 17:24 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Crime, Hacking, Internet, Neko, Otaku, Police, Technology, Viruses



Police say they have arrested the evil hacker who tricked them into forcing 4 innocents to confess to planning massacres, after he was caught on camera delivering a taunting digital message to police by cat – and Japan’s media has wasted no time in painting him as the archetypal creepy otaku.
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The recent “LV0” PS3 key leak rapidly led to the PS3 being cracked and a literal “free-for-all” return of full scale piracy to the platform – a situation Sony has chosen to tackle by threatening evil custom firmware users with a ban if they do not delete the wicked software from their consoles.
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PS3 piracy fans are rejoicing at the news that the “LV0” PS3 encryption keys have been leaked, allowing the console to be fully and irreversibly hacked for good.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, H, News
- Date: Oct 22, 2012 14:04 JST
- Tags: Censorship, Hacking, Oppai, Otaku, Paizuri, PSP, Senran Kagura, Sites


Barely had Senran Kagura Shinovi Versus been unveiled than its eager fans discovered the official site’s hidden secret – that they could remove the pesky swords obscuring their view of the heroine’s jiggling breasts.
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Japan’s police chief has finally apologised for ruining the lives of 4 virus victims suspected of plotting mass murder, all falsely arrested on the belief that an IP address constituted irrefutable proof of guilt, and in several cases apparently coerced into admitting their guilt.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Oct 10, 2012 18:39 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Crime, Gundam, Hacking, Internet, Nipponbashi, Osaka, Otaku, Police, Sunrise

Police have released one of Sunrise’s anime directors after arresting him for threatening to go on a killing spree in Osaka’s otaku district, having ignored his protestations of innocence whilst doggedly maintaining “we have proof – your IP address!” – only to discover his PC was being remotely controlled by a virus inflicted on him by 2ch.
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