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news.bbc.co.uk - 7/3/2009

BBC NEWS | Technology | Billions stolen in online robbery

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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 ...

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WarCry Network : Latest News:  EVE Online: Millions Taken in Virtual Bank Heist

Blue's News:  EVE Bank Robbery

Evil Avatar - News Items:  Billions Stolen In Online Robbery

Kotaku:  Bank Heist Causes Bank Run in EVE Onlne [Eve Online]

Fidgit Atom Feed:  Not-so-stoic BBC fusses over Eve Online scam

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EVE Online: Millions Taken in Virtual Bank Heist
WarCry Network : Latest News — ... His full identity has not been revealed save that his first name is Richard. The stolen kredits amounted to 8% of the 2.6tn that Ebank had in its virtual vaults. ... It has now emerged that Ricdic used the cash to put down a deposit on a house and to pay medical bills. "I'm not proud of it at all, that's why I didn't brag about it," Ricdic told Reuters. "But you know, if I had to do it again, I probably would've chosen the same path based on the same situation." Read the rest at BBC News Online . Source: ...

EVE Online: Virtual Bank Heist Yields Real World Cash
WarCry Network : Latest News — ... His full identity has not been revealed save that his first name is Richard. The stolen kredits amounted to 8% of the 2.6tn that Ebank had in its virtual vaults. ... It has now emerged that Ricdic used the cash to put down a deposit on a house and to pay medical bills. "I'm not proud of it at all, that's why I didn't brag about it," Ricdic told Reuters. "But you know, if I had to do it again, I probably would've chosen the same path based on the same situation." Read the rest at BBC News Online . Source: ...

EVE Bank Robbery
Blue's News — Billions stolen in online robbery reports a huge bank robbery is the latest cataclysm in EVE Online, CCP's sci-fi MMORPG where such intrigues are intrinsic to the game (thanks Mike Martinez). The story outlines a run on one of the game's largest banks after a virtual robbery, which then triggered a run on the bank by frightened depositors. The robber turns out to be the player who had been chief executive at the bank, who has now been expelled from the game, not due to the robbery, which is "legal" within the ruthless context of the game, but because he then traded the virtual ...

Billions Stolen In Online Robbery
Evil Avatar - News Items — ... BBC News is reporting the most recent in-game saga from EVE Online. This time a virtual banker made off with Billions in ISK and traded it for a few thousand real dollars. ...

Bank Heist Causes Bank Run in EVE Onlne [Eve Online]
Kotaku — ... of 8 percent of the bank's 2.8 trillion held in deposits. Still a tidy sum, but hardly the whole kitty. That didn't stop EVE Ebankers from rushing the teller windows once word passed of Ricdic's dirty deeds. He has since been kicked out of EVE, as selling in-game currency for real-world value is a no-no according to the TOS. Had he kept the ISK in-game, he would not have been sanctioned - by CCP anyway. In-game depositors may have had something to say and/or do about it. Billions Stolen in Online Robbery [BBC] ...

Not-so-stoic BBC fusses over Eve Online scam
Fidgit Atom Feed — ... While we're on the subject of mainstream media covering videogames, the BBC gets hip to what cool stories you can glean from Eve Online, a massively mulitplayer game that's not afraid to leave the "fair" out of laissez-faire. It's just another day in Eve Online when someone steals lots of money from someone else. ...

Virtual theft in EVE Online creates run on bank
Ars Technica - Opposable Thumbs — ... According to the BBC, it was revealed that a veteran player of EVE embezzled over 200 billion ISK from, Ebank, the bank he was the CEO of. The former CEO, known only as Ricdic, is actually a man in his 20s from Australia who works in the technology industry; it was revealed that he sold the ill-gotten in-game credits for roughly $5,000, which he used to put down a deposit on a house and pay some medical bills. When news of the theft got out in the EVE community, though, it caused players to make a run on the bank. ...