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Drompo2
Caldari Priory Of The Lemon Atlas Alliance
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Posted - 2009.07.04 15:18:00 -
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Edited by: Drompo2 on 04/07/2009 15:21:22 BBC News
Quote: 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 ú3,115. 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. "Basically this character was one of the people who had been running EBank for a while. He took a bunch of (virtual) money out of the bank, and traded it away for real money," Ned Coker, of Icelandic company CCP which runs Eve, told the Reuters news agency. Eve Online has about 300,000 players all of whom inhabit the same online universe. The game revolves around trade, mining asteroids and the efforts of different player-controlled corporations to take control of swathes of virtual space. 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." Ricdic has now been thrown out of the game as trading in-game cash for real money is against Eve Online's terms and conditions. The rules governing play within Eve would not have sanctioned Ricdic if he had simply stolen the cash and used it in the game, nor if he had bought kredits with real dollars. 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.
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Ikar Kaltin
Amarr Imperial Dreams Curatores Veritatis Alliance
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Posted - 2009.07.04 15:20:00 -
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Was this not in regards to the ebank robbery, not the RZR theft?
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Ander
Gallente Sniggerdly Pandemic Legion
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Posted - 2009.07.04 15:51:00 -
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200billion? meh.
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Hatsumi Kobayashi
Caldari Caldari Corporation 12345 Minor Threat.
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Posted - 2009.07.04 15:51:00 -
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Quote: In early 2009 one of the game's biggest corporations, called Band of Brothers, was brought down by industrial espionage.
Goons should tighten up their security. Can't have spies mess up one of their finest corporations. ______
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Psilocin
Amarr GoonFleet GoonSwarm
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Posted - 2009.07.04 17:30:00 -
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You'd think that someone from the BBC would actually check facts before writing something like that. But then again it's online news that nobody really cares about.
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Jack Gates
Gallente GoonFleet GoonSwarm
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Posted - 2009.07.04 21:02:00 -
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would you honestly check your facts if you were reporting about some stupid video game community
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Jotram
Caldari M. Corp Mostly Harmless
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Posted - 2009.07.04 22:16:00 -
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and to think ive never been in a news article like that :(
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marxist revolutionary
Minmatar GoonFleet GoonSwarm
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Posted - 2009.07.04 22:17:00 -
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they get some minor details wrong about some nerd spaceship game tihs is the end of journalism as we know it
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