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World of Warcraft Use Helps Police Catch Wanted Man

January 7th, 2010 . by Chris Pierre

According to the Toronto Star a fugitive wanted on drug charges in the United States was tracked to Canada. How you ask? Through his World of Warcraft activity.

He was known to be a regular World of Warcraft player and the police in the United States subpeonaed Blizzard to obtain his account information. This of course included the IP Address and my guess is that IP Address belonged in a range which is managed by a Canadian ISP…..et voilĂ !

Thanks to Sean Lonergan for forwarding this information to me.


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