Supreme Court denies computer hacker’s appeal

Lee was convicted for bodily assaulting Chiang and obstruction of his personal freedom, extortion, hacking, and erasing Chiang’s private computer files. Considered heaviest of the five counts, the erasure of private computer files landed Lee a sentence of a year and six months behind bars.

Following a high-stakes loss in the role-playing game Lineage, Lee was called on to delete his account, as previously agreed upon, the China Times reported yesterday.

Lee balked, inciting irate cell phone messages from the winner, which he responded to by gathering cohorts and traveling to the winner’s native Taichung. Lee and the others proceeded to assault the player with a motorcycle chain, forced him to reveal his gaming password, and wiped his account from the gaming server.

Complicit in the crimes are Hsu Liang-chi, who received a 1-year sentence; Wu Chung-han, 5-month sentence, 2-year suspension; Yang Cheng-Lung, 3-month sentence, 2-year suspension; and Chung Chun-yu, investigation pending.

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