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Ex-Old School RuneScape Dev Sentenced for Stealing over $400k in Virtual Gold From Players

Andrew Lakeman used developer access to steal and resell virtual gold and items, with investigators linking nearly $493,000 in crypto receipts to the scheme.

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Lakeman joined Jagex as a content developer in 2015, but came under suspicion three years later when Jagex noticed suspicious activity.

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Former developer of the British Jagex Studio Andrew "Mod Jed" Lakeman was sentenced to imprisonment for stealing virtual gold. Recently, the Cambridgeshire County Police reported that the hacker had been sentenced to imprisonment for stealing virtual gold, a 32-year-old Andrew "Mod Jed" Lakeman (Andrew Lakeman), a former developer who started working in the British Studio ... The post Court sentenced RuneScape to over $400,000 first-aided on SE7…

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Former developer of Old School RuneScape from Jadex studio will be imprisoned for stealing gold from players and other fraudulent schemes.

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gamesradar broke the news on Friday, September 4, 2026.
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