Police in Yangzhou, China's Jiangsu province, recently cracked a case of theft involving PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG), in which more than 3 million user accounts were stolen, with a value of 19 million yuan, according to CCTV.
The Yangzhou Public Security Bureau stumbled upon a user surnamed Guo who had purchased a large number of PUBG game accounts online in a short period of time. Upon investigation, police found that it was an organized gang theft.
According to Yangzhou police, by paying off Internet café operations and maintenance personnel, the perpetrators surnamed Xu planted Trojan horses in the servers of major local Internet cafes.
By virtue of the Trojan horse, the pirate group gained access to a large number of players' game accounts and then allowed programmers surnamed Wu to package and organize the accounts in some columns and sell them to others for profit.
The gang had a huge reach, including Shanghai, Chongqing, Sichuan, Jilin, Yunnan, and Shandong. There were 22 people in the group, all of whom have been arrested.
