A former Old School RuneScape developer has been sentenced after hacking into players’ accounts and selling their virtual gold on the black market for more than $400,000. Andrew Lakeman, 32, formerly known as Jed Sanderson and better known to players of the MMO as “Mod Jed,” used his position at Jagex to access valuable accounts and steal their in-game wealth. Jagex secretly set a trap for Mod Jed Lakeman joined Jagex as a content developer in 2015, but came under suspicion three years later when the company noticed valuable items and gold disappearing from player accounts following suspicious account recoveries. Searches also revealed Lakeman had banked more than $493,000 in cash from cryptocurrency dealers, although police did not specify whether all of that money came from stolen Old School RuneScape items.
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