Diablo 4 YouTuber spends $1,000 on MMO, gets hacked for 4.8 billion gold and admits "it was my fault," dev saves him as players cry "streamer privilege"

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A Diablo 4 content creator recently had their "prized" Old School RuneScape account, which they've invested over $1,000 into, hacked for 4.8 billion gold. Utterly in shambles, they took to YouTube to vent their frustrations – one being that they practically asked to be hacked by ignoring some important account security tools – only to report back days later with the surprise news that the MMO's developer, Jagex, had reached out and restored their lost items. 

DM: Diablo 4, otherwise known as Darth Microtransaction, began their sad story on September 28. "I got hacked and lost everything," they said in a video revealing they'd had their OSRS account breached. DM describes himself as an OSRS superfan; they've played the MMO for 20 years, own plenty of merch ranging from partyhats to skill capes, and consider it their favorite game despite Diablo being the face of their channels.

So they were understandably distraught to lose 4.8 billion gold worth of items, especially since some of those items had been purchased with audience donations or real money converted into subscription Bonds that can be sold on the OSRS in-game market for gold. 

DM says their OSRS account actually got cleaned out years ago entirely of their own volition. Like countless others, they made a fortune at the casino-esque Dueling Arena – which was deemed so toxic that it's since been cut from the MMO – only to lose it all in a string of losses. This loss eventually started their comeback arc, and before this hack, DM says he had "every item in the game" barring a few commodities. 

"I spent over $1,000, plus like $500 in Steam currency as well, on Bonds for gold to get it," DM says of their restored account. "People were chipping in. I saw people clean