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Vandals 'Bomb' Second Life Island

The ABC Island on Second Life after the attack with an inset of how it used to look.
Image source: Stuff.co.nz

Miscreants have hacked into the ABC Island inside the virtual reality world of Second Life, reducing the two-month-old facility to rubble.

The vandalism, which wiped out months of painstaking work, was discovered this morning.

Linden Labs, the San Francisco-based company which operated the virtual world, completed a "rollback" late this afternoon, a procedure that has restored most of what was on the island before the attack.

The head of ABC Innovation, Abigail Thomas, told the abc.net.au website that the facility had been "bombed".

"We will now be looking closely at security measures, investigating how the hackers breached the existing security and, of course, making changes to protect the Island's future development," Ms Thomas said in a statement.

These types of attacks are not uncommon in Second Life.

posted by Fergie @ 5/25/2007 11:54:00 AM