Update: Jagex has issued a statement stating that no credit card or RS Gold banking information was lost as a result of the breach. "Further to yesterday's announcement, we can confirm that none of our players' bank or card details were jeopardized," it said. "We operate with an industry-respected, fully compliant third party payment processor, to intentionally avoid staff using gamers' full bank or card details. This also applies when players choose to save their information at payment stage for any future purchases. Jagex undergoes regular, third party testing to ensure we keep the highest security standards"

A few weeks ago, an Old School Runescape player who goes by mazrim_lol on Reddit maintained that a"serious data breach" had caused him to lose 45 billion coins onto his principal account. His claims had been dismissed by a number of other players, several of whom indicated that it had been his own fault for not even having the account properly secured, or he might be lying around it completely. However, it came to light today he wasn't lying, and that he was right about the information breach, which was an inside job at Jagex. "We confirm that a Member of The Old School Team has been dismissed from job at Jagex following gross misuse of moderator privileges," Jagex said in a statement posted now. "During our rigorous regular system checks, irregular action was identified on limited number of accounts, including the motion of wealth and objects back to the live game."

"Following our investigation, we were able to solve the problem prior to any significant impact was made into the wider match, or market. We have also taken steps to return items and GP to any accounts that are affected. Whilst we generally do not return items or stone, we believe this unusual situation, we wanted to ensure no players lost out to the rogue actions of a member of staff"

Jagex added that it is"working with the police" concerning the incident--45 billion coins has significant real-world worth --but said it could not offer further specifics. However, in accordance with this Resetera thread that the employee in question is Jed Sanderson, aka Mod Jed, who might really have stolen in excess of 100 billion coins in total, worth over $100,000 on gold-selling markets. He is also allegedly involved with the Reign of Terror clan, which was accused of using DDoS attacks to impede opponents in tournaments, including a $20,000 tournament that took place in September of this past year. Jagex said at the very time that its investigation had found no evidence of wrongdoing from Sanderson, but in the wake of all this I expect that it will be taking another look.

In a followup article, Mazrim_lol shared a picture of a message he received from Jagex Player Support, telling him that, because of the"rare circumstances" of this situation, it's made a decision to restore his lost wealth. "We take things in this way very serious and, as such, we'd like to Cheap OSRS Gold assure you that we have taken measures to ensure that an incident like this won't occur again," Jagex wrote. Thankfully, Mazrim_lol is shooting his vindication graciously:"Each of the redditors who spent telling me I had been just lax with security can suck a fat one," he wrote.