[deport]

A prominent quake player mis spelled “owned” and the new word
“pwned” was adopted by people

“’Pwn’ is a lot like the sense of ‘own,’ which means ‘to have
power or mastery over (someone),’” the Merriam-Webster
dictionary explains. “It has also been used to describe the
act of gaining illegal access to something.”

[Bob Ireland]

***“’Pwn’ is a lot like the sense of ‘own,’ which means ‘to have power or mastery over (someone),’”***

Yes; to me it suggested 'pawn-ed' as being made a pawn, but I was just guessing.