Farmville Creators robbed!

[Demon_Skeith]

British hacker Ashley Mitchell thought it would be a hoot to steal $12 million in online cash from Zynga, the creators of Facebook games like FarmVille and CityVille. And it would have been! If he hadn't been caught.

Mitchell's story reads like a textbook bungled burglary. He hacks into a Zynga server, running popular online card game Zynga Poker, and steals 400 billion of the game's betting chips, which have an official worth of around $12 million.

Only once stolen, they're not worth anywhere near that much. Outside the bounds of the game, on the black market, they're "only" worth $300,000. And Mitchell could only offload a third of them before he was caught.

He's admitted his crimes to a British court and, once convicted, faces "a substantial jail term".

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what a fail of a thief.

 

[DaracOSK]

This is just silly lol. But, good plan, huh? XD

 

[gami]

Lol. You just can't steal money online without being caught, at least that kind of huge sums. What a silly guy :emo-wallbash:

 

[aks_w0rm]

hacking is an art....
it got develops by hacking more and more

and he was just doing that...

 

[smanty]

Impressive, but seriously?!? It would have been great if it had worked, but come on... this guy got the chips and unloaded a third of them and then got caught. He must have made a couple of really stupid mistakes.

 

[adarshnet]

lol.... I have to appreciate the guy's plan...

She shouldn't have stolen 400 billion chips....he should've started with less and less and less and then go to the high stakes but who gives a second thought to 12 million dollars?

I should say, this guy is a genius but must take some tips from real robbers who don't leave any evidence....

 

[gami]

I don't think real geniuses need to resort to robbing... as they would earn huge money with their ideas and inventions anyway.

 

[comoregion]

Damn what a fail

 

[jigger]

It's honestly hard to get away with that. Taking huge sums of money and selling huge amounts of those game chips will definitely lead to suspicion. I don't think it was really worth it for him/her to hack these types of games in the first place anyways.