EVE hacked

[cyclobs]

http://static.images.memegenerator.net/ ... 107016.jpg

start cancelling CCs and passwords and plexes

edit:

http://www.kugutsumen.com/showthread.ph ... ite-hacked.

For those that distinguish between them: this appears to be a DDoS by the lulzsec botnet, not a "hack".

As the name implies this is limited to "Denial of Service", and barring further developments there's no reason to believe anyone but CCP has control over the login server, website, etc (or any subscriber information).

Not that control over the login server is particularly useful when it's experiencing several times its load capacity trying to sift through all the **** incoming from the botnet.

might be alright after all

[lucassot]

Yeah just read about this, far out.

[SpEEd_NiNjA]

That Kugu thread has some chuckles in it. Quote PL Titan must have gotten tackled.

Edit:
http://www.eveonline.com/news.asp?a=sin ... 4616&tid=1

Apparently they've started the servers back up. But TQ still is down for me. Oh well.

[cyclobs]

yeah turns out they put it back up and was gettings attacked again and took it back down.

post on the main forums about it... at least the forums are still active to hear all of the endless threads

edit:

ATLAS. taking responsibility 'offically'

http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.as ... &page=2#31

well. was nice knowing them

[cyclobs]

A message from our COO.

At 17:00 UTC today, CCP became aware of a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) against the EVE Online cluster and web servers.

Our policy in such cases is to mobilize a taskforce of internal and external experts to evaluate the situation. At 17:55 UTC, that group concluded that our best course of action was to go completely offline while an exhaustive scan of our entire infrastructure was executed.

While some may feel that such a drastic reaction was not warranted, it is always our approach to err on the side of caution in order to ensure the best possible service for our players and the security of their personal, billing and account information.

We understand the effect this disruption has had for our players and apologize for not having been able to explain fully to the community what was going on. In these cases it can often be counterproductive to containment to give out information while we are in the process of evaluating the scope of any potential problem.

Our taskforce concluded at 22:05 that neither the game servers nor the CCP infrastructure had been breached. Further, we can also confirm that no personal details such as users’ credentials or credit card numbers were exposed through this incident.

The servers were brought back online at 23:00 and we will continue to monitor the situation closely.

Again, we sincerely apologize for this disruption.

Regards,

Jón Hörðdal

Chief Operating Officer

UPDATE: Shortly after service was restored to the EVE Online Tranquility server, the CCP Security Task force became aware of ongoing traffic flooding which prompted them to take the server offline. At 00:30 UTC, Tranquility was brought online again and is being closely monitored. Please be advised that we are prepared to take the server offline again if warranted. We thank you again for your patience and apologize for any inconvenience and sincerely thank you for your continued patience.

that server took a DDos attack for a whole hour and did not go down until CCP pulled the plug.... lool