Crime in a children's virtual world

Children's Virtual World Destroyed By Hackers - News Story - WSMV Nashville:

"Webkinz is a virtual world for children where gamers spend hours accumulating virtual money and then spend it on furnishing an online home.

Jesse Shafer spent a year putting together a fantasy world and then all of a sudden it was gone after his account was hacked.

'I had a pool table, clocks. I had a couch, some plants. I had movies,” said Shafer. 'About $30,000 worth of stuff went down the drain.'

Word started spreading at Shafer's school that everyone was getting their Webkinz world hacked and robbed."

I know my own children have Webkinz accounts and I know how much time it takes to earn the Webkinz cash. It has caused some problems when it comes to doing cores around the house. But like real life nothing comes easy. That someone would steal these accounts from them is just plain wrong! Unfortunately it does teach the children about the real world in a bad way.