Oooh, it's like some Tom Clancy inspired techno mystery, if only Tom Clancy wrote about videogame espionage instead of military spies and corrupt governments and politicians. You don't hear much about code theft, but it is an interesting story about disgruntled employees and the inner workings of the videogame industry.

From the article:

Korean police officials are investigating a reported theft of video game code taken from Korean-headquartered MMO publisher NCsoft, one of the region's top computer game publishers.

According to a new report by the online edition of major Korean newspaper The Chosun Ilbo, the Seoul Metropolitan Police are currently investigating the theft of source code relating to NCsoft's upcoming PC title Lineage III. According to the report, seven former NCsoft employees are thought to have shown and possibly passed on the code to an unnamed “major” Japanese game company.

Read the full article over at gamasutra.com