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Gamer steals from virtual world to pay real debts

The manager of a virtual bank used to store credits for a popular online video game has admitting to stealing digital points from players and selling them for hard cash on the black market.Every month, more than 300,000 gamers around the world dish out the $15 subscription fee to enter the digital world of EVE Online, an elaborate online role-playing game where players strategize, build alliances and battle for intergalactic dominance.The cyber-scandal revolves around EBank, the largest player-operated digital bank, where thousands of gamers deposit their accumulated funds for safe keeping.  EBank?s CEO, a 27-year-old Australian gamer named Richard, recently confessed to embezzling billions of ?insterstellar kredits,? the universal currency used in the world of EVE Online.?Basically this character [Richard] was one of the people that had been running EBank for a while.

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