RMT, collapsing down?

October 10th, 2007 Jun Sok Huhh

Recently, some serious threats to Korean RMT market emerged. Three major RMT mediation companies have been gone through technical problems with their operations. A rumor said that a group of hackers had set this attack to get some side money. But, according to the companies, the problems were just from minor technical difficulties, not from systematic attacks.

Local experts, however, suspect that it was not a coincidence that all of them had same problems at the same time. A small middle-man, Itemria, confessed that there were threats from hackers due to vulnerable system security. An expert of internet security said, "there were some requests from RMT mediation companies to investigate sudden connection surge from China. It is highly probable that some groups of hackers planned this attack."

How do Korean online gamers response to this virtual 'financial' crisis? If trust is at danger, the system cannot go on. Those who had the remainder for their item trading is now hurrying to clear their accounts against system failure. It is just like the bank-run of real world.

UPDATE) One of big three, ItemPF, admitted that the connecting difficulty was from hackers' attacking. Now, it is obvious that the networks security infrastructure of middlemen is extremely fragile in comparison to their trade volume.

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