clipped from: news.bbc.co.uk 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.
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.
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.
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.