Gotta hate hackers, but at least it was the gold farmers that got hit and not the games...

Hackers intending blackmail have been blamed for the recent outages of the websites which comprise the billion dollar virtual item trade in Korea.

A massive denial of service attack has disabled some of the world's largest virtual goods trading sites. The Korea-based sites hit by the attack are responsible for a substantial portion of the country's estimated $1bn trade in virtual gold, weapons and other items for games like World of Warcraft.

See the original article at Texyt.