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Hacker steals $12 million worth of Zynga poker chips
From: Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 00:19:19 -0500
... This shows that the legal regulation and protection of virtual goods and currency, which historically has been fairly uncertain, is evolving fast - driven partly by the boom in virtual goods sales in games. This case is particularly interesting because it involved a UK court recognising virtual currency - in this case, Zynga chips - as legal property which can be protected by existing UK criminal laws...The court effectively found that, even though virtual currency isn't real and is infinite in supply, it still can deserve legal protection in the same way as real world currency. http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/02/03/5981061-hacker-steals-12-million-worth-of-zynga-poker-chips _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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