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If you tried to play on your EVE Online account last night and found the servers to be down, you can thank hacker collective LulzSec who have claimed responsibility for an attack on the CCP servers.
Jón Hörðdal, chief operating officer at CCP, has come out today with a statement regarding the attack. "At 17:00 UTC today, CCP became aware of a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) against the EVE Online cluster and web servers," he wrote.
"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."
Luckily, this time around no personal user data such as credit card information was stolen in the attack, which would have been particularly embarressing for CCP, especially in the light of the recent PSN outages.
"Further, we can also confirm that no personal details such as users' credentials or credit card numbers were exposed through this incident."
Hopefully this still rings true as CCP continues to investigate exactly what happened. To this end CCP has stated that they may have to take the service offline again as part of this investigation, and as they employ enhanced security measures.
[Source: Eurogamer]
Comments
12 years, 10 months ago
Can someone inform me when geeks started to hate video games?
12 years, 10 months ago
LulzSec are getting annoying, I don't see why they feel the need to ruin other peoples experiences. Sure you might not like the game, doesn't mean others don't enjoy it.
12 years, 10 months ago
For the most part I'm upset do to their Sony and LoL attacks, but I would be lying to myself if I said that I hate them completely. They do something about things, even tho they sometimes go "over board." [no pun intended]
12 years, 10 months ago
Brink, EVE, Sony... The Lulz Boat strikes again.
12 years, 10 months ago
Argh.
12 years, 10 months ago
I still don't understand why they attacked EVE. Its a great game that is super supportive of its players.
12 years, 10 months ago
I still don't believe that the same group of people are behind all of the recent attacks. I stand by my belief that they are probably all separate groups spurred on and emboldened by the "success" of others. If they are being performed by the same group then the only logical reason for taking on EVE (a game that pretty much lets people do as they please and you are punished for ill-deeds by other players) is because they aligned with Sony for Dust. If that is true, then this is even more immature than going after Bathesda for giggles.
12 years, 10 months ago
The thing that kinda bothers me is the terminology being used.... A ddos isn't really a hack so much as it is a seige, a ddos stops services by overloading the target server with meaningless information, whereas a hack is an infiltration of sorts, it gets past securityand steals information, so the term getting hacked should have more shame attached to it than getting attacked. All said and done though it appears ccp took the right steps. This whole hacker thing is getting really out of hand.
12 years, 10 months ago
I think its certain to say that Steam is going to be coming up soon.
12 years, 10 months ago
What is going on. x-x
12 years, 10 months ago
Yeah, LulzSec is going way overboard with their attacks on companies' infrastructures.
What's interesting is the little exchange going on between their twitter and the twitter belonging to another "hacktivist" calling himself th3j35t3r. He is a hacker who attacks websites promoting terrorism and islamic radicalism, (basically promotes himself as a 'hacktivist for good') and has hinted at setting up an attack on LulzSec themselves.
12 years, 10 months ago
Hackers SUCK :(
12 years, 10 months ago
Here's hoping that LulzSec gets what they deserve in return. Got no love for anyone that disrupts mine (and anyone else's) gaming time.
12 years, 10 months ago
God dayumm. Crazah shiet
12 years, 10 months ago
Don't confuse these guys with hacktivists.These guys are bottom feeding scum while groups like Anon do actually good stuff and hack people/organizations who deserve to get hacked.
12 years, 10 months ago
It's kind of funny because they also did it to League of Legends but Riot absolutely refuses to admit it and just calls it maintenance.
People rave about their customer support but they refuse to admit their servers are awful, and even when they've been DDoS'ed like this..
Anyways, as you can see from their posts (http://twitter.com/#!/LulzSec along with their website) they're a bunch of little high schoolers running DDoS's, they'll get caught eventually.
12 years, 10 months ago
What the fudge is up with all these vidya gamez hackers lately? Some kids get raged up and attack the community or something, Jesus of Nazareth!