Billions stolen in online robbery

Greebo · 3 Jul 2009 at 14:56

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8132547.stm

Amazing how computer games mimics real life..........

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.

muon · 3 Jul 2009 at 14:56

antijoke · 3 Jul 2009 at 14:59

Wow sounds like a fun game.

Skully · 3 Jul 2009 at 15:00

I was in a corp in EvE once that had nearly everything stolen.

Lols.

Some people think I did it, if I did I would be rich!

I blame Helen.

task · 3 Jul 2009 at 15:04

not the first time this has happened,

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Eve-Online-Economy-Suffers-700-billion-ISK-Scam-33737.shtml

sorry for the terrible link but a lot of the eve sites are blocked here.

Old Wino · 3 Jul 2009 at 15:10

VaderDSL · 3 Jul 2009 at 15:16

Ha I have never trusted anyone with my ingame funds, looks like it was a good decision

Craig321 · 3 Jul 2009 at 15:20

Lmao, brilliant. Good on him

Kona* · 3 Jul 2009 at 15:23

Heh, DBank (another bank in EVE) ran off with my money only a week or two ago - seems like they are all at it

Muffin` · 3 Jul 2009 at 15:32

Skully said:
I was in a corp in EvE once that had nearly everything stolen.

Lols.

Some people think I did it, if I did I would be rich!

I blame Helen.

lol stk

taB · 3 Jul 2009 at 15:45

Love all the theft that goes on in Eve.

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.

Errr, not exactly chaps

Skully · 3 Jul 2009 at 15:46

Yeh it was their alliance that went down.

ASCN > BoB.

apeZ · 3 Jul 2009 at 15:48

read this earlier and had a good chuckle. I really admire Eve for mimicking real-life situations sometimes.

arknor · 3 Jul 2009 at 15:57

bigger thefts happened in eve online tbh much much bigger ones

Paramount · 3 Jul 2009 at 16:04

Whats the benefit of putting it into a bank?

Dj_Jestar · 3 Jul 2009 at 16:07

"kredit" ?

Dj_Jestar · 3 Jul 2009 at 16:07

Skully said:
I was in a corp in EvE once that had nearly everything stolen.

Lols.

Some people think I did it, if I did I would be rich!

I blame Helen.

He admitted it

KNiVES · 3 Jul 2009 at 16:26

It has now emerged that Ricdic used the cash to put down a deposit on a house and to pay medical bills.

Good. Video game money used to pay medical bills and a mortgage isn't a bad thing really! If only I could do that!

mac1st3 · 3 Jul 2009 at 16:40

hehe the guy was just carrying out his space piracy, it's all legit, and a lesson to those who bought in-game money >.<

Scrutinize · 3 Jul 2009 at 16:46

This is awesome. Don’t know why he didn’t clear more out from the bank, after all, it is not even illegal activity. At worst it is against the games terms and conditions or ‘cheating’.

Still the devs could just programme some more in to replace it lol. Oh and how did this make BBC news, things must be slow today lol.