The Great EVE Online Heist

There’s a real MMO heist that took almost a year to plan… and it’s still unmatched today.

In EVE Online, a secret player group called the Guiding Hand Social Club was hired to

take down a rival CEO. For ten months, they infiltrated the corporation,

gained trust, and rose to positions of power. Then, on one coordinated

night, they executed the hit: assassinating the CEO, emptying the hangars,

and stealing every ship, item, and blueprint they could carry.

Developers later confirmed the total haul was worth around 16,000 dollars based on the real-world

value of in-game currency at the time. It became the most famous betrayal