Originally Posted by BlackDwarf 
How?
This would be like somebody stealing from a GB in WoW. If the admins wanted to type 'create x gold' to put it back, they could.
This is not real money thats been stolen. It doesn't exist. Its been SOLD for real money, and actually, if I was in his position and had to pay real life debts over a game, I know what I'd do.
I think the thing you're missing is the TIME it takes to generate that currency. To give you an idea, a couple of years back I ran a pretty successful corp mining effort. Over the course of a year, I paid out 4 billion ISK to around 20 members for minerals worth about 6 billion. That's 20 people, working for 1 year, to generate a mere 2 billion ISK profit. Even at say, 10 hours a week mining per person (rough estimate), that's 10,400 man hours. That means the 200 billion represents 2000 people each spending over 500 hours mining, or a lone man spending the rest of their life mining non-stop.
So yeah, it might be "just a game", but really it's a massive investment of people's time and effort that was stolen, and to have it sold to pay off a man's debts, you can see why people are pissed.