If they hacked into my bank account right now, they'd probably leave a few bucks.
Where the game company makes money is the stuff you have to buy in the game to be competitive with the big shots. It's called "Pay to Win." I learned with Winning Putt ways getting around all that. As in, one guy who could drive 500+ yards, usually still had to chip on the green. Where as I was maybe hitting a 7 or 8 iron to land the green. Either way, we were both on the green in 2. Some of those guys have spent thousands on better clubs, balls and things to make the hit farther. I spent a couple hundred before I realized what was going on.
Then I started a "newbie" guild, that only allowed new players to join. There, me and the ones I'd taught the tricks to, would advise the newbies. Plus when we'd get a better set of clubs, we'd always pass them down to someone at a lower tier.
As far as the hacking thing goes, people can probably get into my computer any time they want. I try to have security stuff going. But there's people who know how to get around anything I've got.
The sorts of problems that happen is the IRS kicks in your door at 3 am to confiscate your computer and investigate you for fraud.
You then find out you are a director of a company you have never heard of that has suddenly closed down oweing the investors & government millions .
Then you are in the position of having to prove the perpetrator who has used all of your personnal details is no you .
When it comes to company law, just walking into your workshop and realizing it wasn't you does not cut the mustard because they have financial trails from your computer to overseas tax havens .
A person who I use to go riding with got sucked into the big child porn investigation we had back in the 90's.
While he had nothing to do with it, his computer had been hyjacked and was being used to access peer to peer video downloads.
HE got named so his life was over , the marriage broke down, he was a teacher so got laid off and the last I heard of him he was picking fruit under false names ( so paying 60% tax ) and moving every couple of weeks.
HE was found innocent but that cost every cent he had in the bank + some more .
Just think what you would do if tomorrow your name was headlines in a cover story "Child porn ring broken".
Last year an accountant was done for falsifing documents, & tax fraud.
They initally found it when liquidation investigators found a homeless man who according to the government was a director of over 200 companies who owed hundreds of millions to the tax office & had committed massive investment frauds .
The homeless man obviously was not guilty but he got arrested & gaoled for over 3 years before being exhonerated .
You have little in the way of assets so would be considered to be a flight risk so would be remanded in custody till the trial came up .
How far is the USA justice system behind on corperate fraud ?
How long could you survive in a remand prison ?
Another riding friend had his phone stolen in Singapore better than 5 years ago.
All of the people on his contacts list still get scams originating from that phone .
The first was the "help me I have been mugged & lost everything so need $ XYZ urgently to pay hotel bill so I can leave to go to the consulate
Then the similar one I need $ xyz to pay for new documentation so I can come home .
And yes several people were stupid enough to send money .
The latterst one was just this week when I got messages addressed to me on my old mobile that what was my old land line number will be turned off due to NBN upgrades.
That one included the name of the phone company as well and was very convincing except the land line was disconnected last year .
People do not take cyber security as seriously as they should it is more than just a nuisance they can easily become critical .