Woman Arrested Over Virtual Revenge

A 43 year-old Japanese woman has been arrested for allegedly hacking into the game MapleStory, where she virtually killed her online ex-husband.

The woman, who worked as a piano teacher, was arrested at her home in Miyazaki specifically for illegal access to a computer and manipulating electronic data. She could face up to five years in prison, and when the police questioned her she responded with, “I was suddenly divorced, without a word of warning. That made me so angry.”

The account she hacked into belonged to a 33 year-old office worker 620 miles away from her (in Sapporo). His MapleStory avatar was married to her avatar until he suddenly demanded a divorce. She was so upset that she illegally got onto his account and destroyed the character he had spent a year working on.

The woman allegedly had no other revenge plotted in the real world, officials said.