It's not clear that the players actually got to keep the stuff. Several articles...

		mrgoldenbrown on May 3, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How a player with a “useless” item almost took dow... It's not clear that the players actually got to keep the stuff. Several articles state that they were stripped of their ill gotten gains, including this one by the devs themselves: http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/72972