Kim Jong-il Has Hackers Gold Farming. No, Seriously.
Reality > fiction. Kim Jong-il of all people has a crack team of hackers farming for gold in Lineage. Which they are then, of course, flipping for some real hard cash. Astounding. Outstanding. Something-ing.
Kim has hired a team of hackers to farm Asian MMOs for in-game coin, which they sell online for cash IRL, according to South Korean officials. Kim’s hackers hail from North and South Korea, and work with operatives in Northern China, four of which were arrested last week in Seoul for organizing a hacking squad of 30 people, authorities said.
In less than two years, the organizers made $6 million, 55 percent of which went to the hackers, and some of that to Kim’s agents in Pyongyang, Seoul police said. Officials believe the hackers report to a mysterious Communist Party agency named Office 39, which earns money for Kim through drug trafficking, arms sales and other illegal activities. Kim’s slush fund is worth billions, American and South Korean officials said, and he uses it, in part, to fund a nuclear weapons program. This is truly upsetting, because the only thing more depressing than a nuclear attack is a nuclear attack funded by MMOs.
MMO gold farming supplying the funds needed for nuclear arms development. Welcome to the future.