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[gunnar at arctecgroup.net (Gunnar Peterson)]

Billions stolen in online robbery

Space trading game Eve Online has suffered a virtual version of the  
credit crunch.

One of the game's biggest financial institutions lost a significant  
chunk of its deposits as a huge theft started a run on the bank.

One of the bank's controllers stole about 200bn kredits and swapped  
them for real world cash of ?3,115.

As news of the theft spread, many of the bank's customers rushed to  
remove their virtual cash.
...
The scandal is not the first to play out in Eve Online. In early 2009  
one of the game's biggest corporations, called Band of Brothers, was  
brought down by industrial espionage.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8132547.stm



-gunnar