FBI: ‘Call Of Duty’ Players Turn To Cryptocurrency Hacking, $3 Million Stolen

‘Call Of Duty’ Gamers Accused In Court Filing, FBI Affidavit

Members of two different industries, the long-standing gaming community and the nascent cryptocurrency world, have recently butted heads, but not in a way that you may immediately assume. According to the Chicago Sun Times, an American media outlet, a consortium of gamers, who primarily played games in the “Call Of Duty” first-person shooter franchise, have turned to malicious acts to get their hands on crypto assets.

Per Chicago-filed court documents, as relayed by local media, the group, which includes men from Dolton, Illinois and Bloomington, Indiana, is suspected of getting their hands on a minimum of $3.3 million in ill-gotten cryptocurrency.

One man from Bloomington, who remains anonymous due to the odd circumstances of this case, explained that he met his hacker peers while playing Call of Duty, presumably through the voice chat function that the video game offers to its users. Interestingly, via a…