Yes that right, you heard me. Police in Finland are actually looking into the theft of virtual furniture from social networking site Habbo Hotel. Ironically they could face real life consequences if police find the virtual thieves.

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Reports claim around 400 users of the Habbo Hotel virtual hotel have had ‘Significant amounts of virtual property’ stolen, which they have purchased with actual real life money. I hope it wasn’t as expensive as real world furniture. Losers, sorry, Users of the site can create a character for themselves to hang out and chat with friends, take care of virtual pets and furnish their own rooms buy actually paying with real money.

The virtual thieves are thought to have used hoax web pages to acquire user names and passwords. They then signed in under the stolen users details and shifted paid for items such as the furniture to other accounts. Police have already searched homes in 5 Finnish cities (real life homes I presume), confiscating computers and interrogating the occupants. The value of the stolen items has not been defined, but for some users it is thought to be “Significant”.