SWIM did something similar at a similar age on the game League of Legends. What is interesting was that at the time, most script kiddy programs to do the "crack

SWIM did something similar at a similar age on the game League of Legends. What is interesting was that at the time, most script kiddy programs to do the "cracking" would in fact work, but as soon as you found (bruteforced) a valid account it would be sent by the program in question to a main server, by the time somebody tried to do anything with the account, the credentials were long gone (stolen by the dev of the app). Essentially, they used the script kiddies as a server farm and free human labour, and from what I understood they made copious amounts of money, much more than the thousands they talk about in this article.