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

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 http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/72972