[LINK] ABC's Second Life Island Trashed

[Kim Holburn]

http://kotaku.com/gaming/no-survivors/abcs-second-life-island- 
trashed-262765.php

http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,23663,21780235-7486,00.html

> ABC's virtual site 'griefed'
>
> By Simon Canning
>
> May 23, 2007 01:30am
> Article from: The Australian
>
> THE ABC's prized virtual reality island in the online game Second  
> Life has been devastated in an act of digital vandalism.
>
> ABC Island, the third-most-visited commercial site in the online  
> game that has more than six million members globally, was found as  
> a "bombed, cratered mess" yesterday.
>
> Craig Preston, head of technology for ABC innovation, said only the  
> digital transmission tower was left standing on the island, which  
> cost the ABC tens of thousands of dollars to create.
>
> "It looks like we've had some enormous cyber-bomb set off on our  
> site," Mr Preston said.
>
> "Somebody has nuked us in some way, shape or form, and they've  
> obliterated almost every object on the site."
>
> The online vandalism, called "griefing", took several hours to repair.

So that's all right then?

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