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  • N.Korea Turns to Online Game Hackers to Earn Hard Currency(by stealing game items)

    08/06/2011 11:08:07 PM PDT · by TigerLikesRooster · 3 replies
    Chosun Ilbo ^ | 08/05/11
    N.Korea Turns to Online Game Hackers to Earn Hard Currency Elite North Korean hackers created and distributed programs that stole millions of U.S. dollars from popular South Korean on-line gaming sites, such as Lineage and Dungeon Fighter, according to a police investigation. The hackers, who are believed to have graduated from the North's prestigious Kim Il-sung University and Kim Chaek University of Technology, stole gaming items such as weapons, armor and other objects that players collect and store in their on-line games and trade for cash. The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency said on Thursday it had arrested five South Koreans,...