Billions stolen in online robbery

Por Havoc

Uma curiosa notícia, especialmente para um certo amigo meu, que eu encontrei através da BBC. Me fez ficar pensando sobre como WoW pode também ser afetado por crises econômicas geradas pelas próprias pessoas, algo como a crise dos mineradors de Ultima Online.

Eve é um MMORPG voltado para a exploração espacial, se concentrando menos em combates e mais em um aspecto de pseudo-sobriedade, através de “roles” de mineiros, piratas, corporações, banqueiros, etc.

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.

Space scandal

The theft from EBank took place in early June but only now have details emerged about the amount of money stolen and why it was taken.

The theft was carried out by EBank’s chief executive, a player known as Ricdic, now known to be a 27-year-old Australian who works in the technology industry. 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. (…)

Continua no site da BBC.