The idea is simple, these shill characters buys a large portion of expensive lotteries on capital ships and faction ships. You typically see them buy a ridiculous amount of tickets 50-75% which greatly costs more that the price of the actual ship.

The legitimate bidders buy the remaining tickets for a fairly substantial amount of money.

The shill at this point has a superior chance of winning. If by some crazy chance his number is not picked, the site will change the numbers to make sure he is the winner.

The prize still remains in Somer blink's possession, but they have gain practically lots of isk from the victims they ripped off.

When a hot-headed, attention seeking and gambling addicted kid can hack BLINK then probably anyone can hack them.

So now tell me, how would CCP deal with that? you sent isk somewhere it shouldnt have gone because of a terribly security issue on somer blinks site which CCP cannot verify even if they wanted to, how would they know that blink didnt just stage this whole thing to intercept more isk out of people? This is how i see it.

everything else is not secure.

c) that guy had lists of usernames + hashes, which means there has been a serious security compromise, now if he got that from a low-level pre-auth account or by other problems, it does not matter – with the hashes, the usernames and a decent rainbow table he is able to login as any of those users. Meaning security relevant information HAS LEAKED. period. there is no talking it down. No matter what sort of a loser the guy who did it was, no matter how much you try to beautify it.

- You had a security issue
- You had relevant information leaked

Fucking DEAL with it, instead of trying to talk it down.

god damn i hate people who don't take security serious.

Damn, even though the whole scam they've been running is obvious at the very least don't make retards of yourselves trying to make lame excuses for them.

That sir is not nearly "all available for scrutiny"

Other commentary aside, I can clarify some specific things for you on the legal end of the spectrum.

From a legal standpoint, SOMER Blink's gambling enterprise is not a gambling endeavor at all. ISK has no value legally: all assets, currency, and everything else that exists in EVE is the exclusive property of CCP and they reserve all rights to do whatever the hell they want with it. Not only can you not own any of it, but you cannot have any interest in it either. Stealing ISK or items, even PLEX, from other players in EVE is not a crime because there is no possible way it can legally benefit you. If anything, actually cashing out on it (getting someone to pay you real world money for these goods) is the criminal part, since CCP can and probably will take it away from them upon discovery of such a transaction; if they didn't know about this going into it, there is a bit of an argument that you may have scammed them with false claims as to what they would receive.

As far as any court is concerned, the concerns of ISK being transferred and any unseemly goings-on in this area are basically speculation and betting with and on monopoly money blowing around in a furnace. There is no possible way to claim damages or misconduct whatever the case, as there was nothing of value to begin with.