From the NPR radio show On The Media(onthemedia.org)

RIP Vile Rat:

On September 11th, 2012, gunmen attacked two American compounds in Benghazi, Libya, killing four Americans. Sean Smith, one of the four killed in the attack, was an IT manager in the real world, but online, he was Vile Rat, a hugely influential diplomat in the video game Eve Online. OTM Producer and TLDR co-creator Alex Goldman talks to Sean's friend Alex "The Mittani" Gianturco about who Sean was both in Eve and in the real

Entire episode page:
http://www.onthemedia.org/story/on-the-media-2014-02-21/

Direct link to segment:
world.https://www.wnyc.org/radio/#/ondemand/352475