Quote:Young Israeli Teen suspected in hacking of Maplestory gaming servers
The Israeli hacker, Grade 11 student, was arrested this morning due to the suspicion that he was hacking Maplestory servers and running an illegal game server, which lead to a great loss of money for Nexon.

A Grade 11 student was arrested this morning (Sunday) by the investigation unit in the Central District due to a rising suspicion of the teen being able to hack into Maplestory game servers. It is said that the teen was able to manipulate and emulate the Maplestory servers (owned by Nexon). As well, it is said that the teen did spread information and codes that belong to Nexon. [Translation Note: This refers to unpacking/repacking imo].

In his investigation, the teen admitted to the crime, and explained that he did it in order to gain "respect" from fellow internet users. The teen was arrested after a three month investigation lead by Yoram Salkman.

During the month of July, a lawsuit was presented by lawyer representatives of Nexon, a Korean company, in Israel. The company noticed that a user who goes by the name "KoolK/CoolKey/etc" hacked into the software provided free of charge by the company. This was done by decrypting the security methods and algorithms, as well as server connection methods. The hacker opened a "private server", which users were able to connect to by using the hacked software. He swayed users who were supposed to connect to the real server, into his server.

-Insert explanation of Maplestory- ... It is suspected that the teen offered the same paid services (Cash Shop) that Nexon offers, for free. This resulted in a loss of revenue for the company.

The specific teen even distributed the hacked program in several online forums, thus increasing revenue loss for Nexon, and even increased the chance of virus infestation for the users who are using the hacked software. (Translation note: wtp?). For a number of weeks, the teen was able to escape the investigators, who ended up talking to some innocent people along the way.

During the search conducted by the unit, there were computers and computer hardware/software found which leads the investigators to believe that this suspect is guilty.

Devil's Sunrise Wrote:Koolk? oh wow.

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Israeli Hacker, student grade k, was arrested this morning on suspicion that broke the game servers MapleStory והקים game server is not valid, the developer of the game that caused great financial damage

Senior Ali
Published: 19.10.08, 15:25 19.10.08, 15:25

Grade k student was arrested this morning (Sunday) by the fraud unit of the Central District on suspicion that the network was able to break the game very popular MapleStory, Fri development of the company נקסון, the game server and not an alternative laws, codes secret archives and distributes the game figures to upgrade the network.

Younger admitted during interrogation that he and claimed the act that made it "in order to get respect on the network". The boy was arrested after a three-month investigation of the only researchers, led
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During the month of July complaint filed by attorneys representing the company in Israel נקסון Korean. Company representatives noticed that are Israeli as a "sound Kay" broke the company's software, downloadable for free, it slipped by module security module connection. Hahacker Open server which is equivalent to connect with the software Hapervcha, Ouhaseit users who were supposed to connect to the original server to serve Hapirate.

MapleStory game based on the business model in which players are required to pay to upgrade the virtual image: the basic game you can download for free but is not limited to, but if he wants to play a powerful figure of better equipment, will have to pay the company According to suspicion, the boy had suggested that creates images on the server is the upgraded without cost, and thereby caused financial damage to the company.

It also הפיץ are portrayed by the Internet software Hapervcha thereby caused financial damage to increase, and increased the fear viruses for the game who have used the software Hapervcha. Over several weeks, the boy managed to evade researchers also מזרועותיהם of computer fraud unit, which came during the investigation was considered להאקרים innocent people.

During the search conducted by police fraud unit of the district center computer of computer material was captured, detained the suspect for questioning. Pleaded guilty to minor offenses and released on making conditions restrictive by his parents. The police say that this is an offense to infiltrate into pertaining to computer material, breaking into a protected server, removing the security of a server module and establishing dummy server - all of these criminal offenses.

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Fiel Wrote:No way Koolk got arrested. He's on vacation in Turkey right now. I'm betting this has to do with the recent MapleSEA hacking? Or was that done by Chinese people?

Someone Wrote:Well, on RZ koolk's location is Isreal and the SVN and his site went down.

Fiel Wrote:Koolk has an account here on SP.net as well. I'm not going to believe that the Koolk in the story is the same as my friend Koolk until I see more information.

Also, Koolk did not hack into KMS servers. He doesn't care about KMS. He likes doing stuff with GMS.

Leaves Wrote:EDIT: In addition, they are telling us this person's name's first letter. In english, the equivalent is A.

Leaves Wrote:No. Read the first paragraph. I know hebrew lol. It says (א'), refering to his name. (This is after it says י"א