In an interesting article from PC World, Craig Schmugar, a researcher with McAfee, says his company now sees more malware designed to steal passwords for MMO’s than for financial information. That’s not to say your banking info is totally safe; it’s just that when you break it down by numbers, there are more programs that’ll go after your WoW account. Schmugar discusses some possible reasons for this, most importantly is the lowered risk. A person caught stealing a password for an MMO account will face less consequences if they’re caught than if they were stealing bank passwords. Besides which, in-game currency can then be converted to actual currency quite easily, as can different items.
Ah, for the simpler days when thieves would just mug you on the street.
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