Billions stolen in online robbery reports a huge bank robbery is the latest cataclysm in EVE Online, CCP's sci-fi MMORPG where such intrigues are intrinsic to the game (thanks Mike Martinez). The story outlines a run on one of the game's largest banks after a virtual robbery, which apparently spooked depositors. The robber turns out to be the player who had been chief executive at the bank, who has now been expelled from the game, not due to the robbery, which is "legal" within the ruthless context of the game, but because he then traded the virtual currency for real cash, a violation of EVE's terms of service. The robber then apparently used the cash for medical bills and a deposit on a house. "I'm not proud of it at all, that's why I didn't brag about it," the robber tells Reuters. "But you know, if I had to do it again, I probably would've chosen the same path based on the same situation."