‘Virtual rape’ hard to track in online gaming, police say

By News Staff

Posted August 25, 2014 7:11 pm.

This article is more than 5 years old.

A frightening trend is surfacing in the world of online gaming – hackers rewriting code to simulate sexual assault.

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