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North Korea stealing money from MMOs through hackers?

Posted Aug 6, 2011 at 11:56PM EST by Mabie A.

Listed in: News Tags: Korea, lineage

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This is so messed up it's true. According to reports, South Korean cops have captured five online hackers who have been breaching through security systems of online games to steal money for North Korea.

Their M.O, according to the Seoul-based authorities, use farm bots to gather items from games such as Lineage, which they will then sell over the auction systems in exchange for real money.

So said Senior Officer in South Korea's International Crime Investigation Unit, Chun Kil-hwan, in an official statement, "They regularly contacted North Korean agents for close consultation." Before the hackers were foiled, they had already managed so far to steal about US$ 6.3 million in the past two years. After getting their cuts from the transactions, they will then pass over the rest of the stolen funds to North Korean officials.

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The hackers, Mr. Chung also posited, are graduates of North Korea's elite science universities.

It is of the belief, furthermore, that North Korea is resorting to such dirty tactics in order to buoy up their funds, which have been drastically dwindling in the past several years, thanks to the economic sanctions imposed upon them.

North Korea has so far denied knowledge regarding any of these allegations, and have instead pointed the blame finger back to Seoul police, claiming that they are merely fabricating this conspiracy to put them in an even worse light.

Via [New York Times]

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