Zynga Poker Hacker $12 Mirrion Dorrars

http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/...12-million-worth-of-zynga-poker-chips

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/...er-Steals-Virtual-Billions-From-Zynga

Hacker steals $12 million worth of Zynga poker chips By Athima Chansanchai UPDATE: Zynga response now included in story. A gambling addict hacked into gaming heavyweight Zynga and stole 400 billion virtual poker chips worth $12 million to sell on the black market. He got caught and now he's facing some very real prison time. No amount of Farmville tasks can get him out of this one. Ashley Mitchell, 29, pleaded guilty to five charges brought under the Computer Misuse Act and the Proceeds from Crime Act and remanded until a date was fixed for sentencing, according to BBC. BBC reported that Mitchell, who has apparently struggled with an online gambling addiction (especially Zynga poker), "posed as an administrator for the Zynga Poker game on Facebook in order to get at the computer systems for the game and steal the chips" between June and September 2009. He laundered the chips through a series of Facebook accounts trying to play catch me if you can with Zynga, best known for its popular (and addictive) Facebook games Farmville, Mafia Wars and the booming Cityville. But Zynga didn't get where it is by being dumb, and they soon figured out something was amiss. They organized a sting. And they stung. He made only about $86,000 before he was pinched. The judge warned Mitchell he's looking at some substantial time behind bars, though he has yet to specify the duration. But seeing as how this isn't Mitchell's first dance as a hacker — he has a previous conviction of hacking into a local council's web site to change his personal details — punishment might be stiff. Besides wondering if it is illegal to pilfer fake currency, I'm also pondering, maybe it's also time to call Gamblers Anonymous? Develop had some answers via Jas Purewal, lawyer and author of Gamer/Law, who told the publication that the case has set a new precedent. This shows that the legal regulation and protection of virtual goods and currency, which historically has been fairly uncertain, is evolving fast - driven partly by the boom in virtual goods sales in games. This case is particularly interesting because it involved a UK court recognising virtual currency - in this case, Zynga chips - as legal property which can be protected by existing UK criminal laws...The court effectively found that, even though virtual currency isn't real and is infinite in supply, it still can deserve legal protection in the same way as real world currency. UPDATE: A Zynga spokesperson sent us this response: "Zynga treats game security with the utmost of seriousness. We want to provide our users with the safest and most enjoyable game experience possible. To that end, we have a world class security team which continues to proactively identify and address security breaches with the highest priority. We will pursue these issues vigorously, which could involve criminal and civil prosecutions."

btw has anyone played on zynga? I've got like 14 million in chips and everyone is really really bad.

might be a good time for me to switch sites..

fb poker is srs business

waaat? how much is 14 million chips worth in real money then?

wait a second

how much money is there to be made in this zynga poker outfit?

it looks like 4m/8m blind tables are the highest stakes although i have no idea if anyone plays those...

and people are selling 1billion chips for 1k ish

and it's 5x easyer then playmoney tables on pokerstars

yeah except u can only play 1 table at once on that thing

seems miserable, gl to whoever is gonna try that

whoever is gonna try that is gonna waste some serious time

On February 16 2011 06:15 CrownRoyal wrote: it looks like 4m/8m blind tables are the highest stakes although i have no idea if anyone plays those... and people are selling 1billion chips for 1k ish

so the highest stakes are 4/8?

o.O

and with playchips no rake?

4million/8million

...

he meant the $ equivalent if 1bn = $1000

Maybe I just put up 1k then, and starting to play highstakes with the same

We found our no rake site gentlemen.

On February 16 2011 09:21 Fudyann wrote: We found our no rake site gentlemen.

lol!

On February 16 2011 09:21 Fudyann wrote: We found our no rake site gentlemen.

lol

On February 16 2011 09:21 Fudyann wrote: We found our no rake site gentlemen.

lol

for a pro this will prob be a serious waste of time.

but we all know that.

lol gambling addiction to cause you to steal a bazillion fake money chips. wat a sick degen hero.

the guy who stole play money chips from facebook got 12x as much as the guy who robbed the Bellagio lol

On February 16 2011 13:04 byrnesam wrote: the guy who stole play money chips from facebook got 12x as much as the guy who robbed the Bellagio lol

haha awesome!

On February 16 2011 06:23 CrownRoyal wrote: yeah except u can only play 1 table at once on that thing seems miserable, gl to whoever is gonna try that

i play 1 table anyway if its HU. Might go check it out.

On February 16 2011 09:21 Fudyann wrote: We found our no rake site gentlemen.

lol

On February 16 2011 13:04 byrnesam wrote: the guy who stole play money chips from facebook got 12x as much as the guy who robbed the Bellagio lol

that bellagio guy got caught too dunno if it was ever posted here. but he tried to sell some chips on 2+2 lol

stole 400 billion virtual poker chips worth $12 million to sell on the black market

On February 16 2011 08:47 Nuros wrote: he meant the $ equivalent if 1bn = $1000

does not make sense

On February 16 2011 21:40 player999 wrote: Show nested quote + stole 400 billion virtual poker chips worth $12 million to sell on the black market   On February 16 2011 08:47 Nuros wrote: he meant the $ equivalent if 1bn = $1000 does not make sense

Think its worth 12 million if you actually buy them from the site.. But selling them in the "black market" you'll only get like 400k i guess?

i heard the games were a lot softer

On February 16 2011 06:15 CrownRoyal wrote: it looks like 4m/8m blind tables are the highest stakes although i have no idea if anyone plays those... and people are selling 1billion chips for 1k ish

wait so you can basically play 3/6nl on zynga poker with fake chips; guys lets set this it up keep it quiet within lp

lol

On February 16 2011 13:04 byrnesam wrote: the guy who stole play money chips from facebook got 12x as much as the guy who robbed the Bellagio lol

haha pwnd

can you multitable if you play from multi facebook pages about yourself (possible/legal/morallywrong?

On February 18 2011 02:26 traxamillion wrote: Show nested quote + On February 16 2011 06:15 CrownRoyal wrote: it looks like 4m/8m blind tables are the highest stakes although i have no idea if anyone plays those... and people are selling 1billion chips for 1k ish wait so you can basically play 3/6nl on zynga poker with fake chips; guys lets set this it up keep it quiet within lp lol

Some people on my campus apparently did this but for some reason I never cared.

It kinda tilted me because on my little poker forum, they posted a hand as "Biggest pot of my life" and showed a 1billion chip pot on facebook poker. In the midstakes forum lol.

There was a zynga poker player survey that I took that had all these things in it for future application im sure. Multitabling, making fullscreen, moving ads, etc. etc.

and im pretty sure people farm chips and sell them because look at this bitch (and she's always asking me for 2mil chip donation in the most fucked up broken english)

If only all those Zynga players played with real money on online poker. +_+

On February 18 2011 02:29 traxamillion wrote: can you multitable if you play from multi facebook pages about yourself (possible/legal/morallywrong?

Yea, I tried doing this like a year ago and it worked then. Not sure how it is now.

How would you go about selling the chips then? And would it be illegal?

i sold diablo 2 items on ebay back in the day, i wrote on my listings that "you are paying for the time spent to get this item, not for the item itself, all items are property of blizzard entertainment"
prob could do something similar with selling chips