American hackers 'bomb' Minecraft version of Denmark and raise stars and stripes in cyber-attack
US hackers have fund a way to smuggle virtual dynamite into game and blow up areas of the country.
Even it was raised to the American flag
Last updated: 17:27 EDT, 8 May 2014
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The Danish government's plan to recreate the entire country using the hit computer game Minecraft has been shattered by hacker attacks.
Officials confirmed that large cities -including Copenhagen which was damaged by users who discovered a way to smuggle virtual dynamite, supposedly banned from the Danish area of the Minecraft world.
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Some parts of the city are being rebuilt by the Danish government.
Danish officials have acknowledged that "Several large Danish towns were razed to the ground and many new structures were constructed all around the place."
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The first nation to be fully transplanted into the blocky Minecraft games The government was hoping it would help make lessons more fun for students.
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It even created a set of lesson plans for teachers to guide them through the virtual version of their country.
Initial reports claimed that entire cities were destroyed.
The claims were denied however.
"The entire cities aren't completely grounded to the ground. It's just MINOR areas," said Chris Hammekenof the Danish GeoData Agency
'We consider that as the nature of playing Minecraft that elements are broken down and new ones are being created.
"We will therefore not relaunch the demonstration of Denmark in Minecraft.
'But occasionally we will repair minor areas when structures are removed and nothing new is being created.'
"We have built Denmark online in Minecraft in order that young people can plant their own forest, establish a lake, riding school, biogas plant, wind turbine and more,' said the Kirsten Brosbol, Danish Minister for the Environment at the time of the project's launch.
"Pupils believe it is more fun to work with their own home, street and so on.
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