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bellinghman ([personal profile] bellinghman) wrote2009-07-03 02:09 pm

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BBC: 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.

[identity profile] bellinghman.livejournal.com 2009-07-03 02:57 pm (UTC)(link)
As a lecturer at one of their Universities, I suspect [livejournal.com profile] sharikkamur has had some contact with the Icelandic banking system, and is (like much of the rest of the Icelandic population) rather rather unhappy at it.

(Of course, she's not [livejournal.com profile] bfrb, so mayn't have quite the same inside knowledge.)