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[Mizhara]

Okay, this is hilarious. They take down the Eve server... and seem to think it matters somehow?
CCP trolls and griefs us harder on a regular basis and we love them for it. This is just a stranger sticking their hands down my pants as far as I'm concerned. Now if only I could get them to spank while they were at it... Maybe take down my Steam somehow.

I mean seriously... could they have picked a more jaded userbase to 'grief'?

[Ellis Croix]

I got three kills in Battlestar Galactica Online today.

As a Cylon.

Below level 10.

This was an epic day outside of EVE, but then I have epic days every day.  My life is complete win! /Charlie_Sheen

On the whole "hacking" thing, I'll respond appropriately once more information is available regarding it.  New credit card, password changes, etc. if they're necessary.  Not the end of the world.

For some perspective, my wife's cousin had her purse, house and car keys, wallet, cell phone, credit cards etc. stolen last week.  Losing a little game time in EVE is not that big of an inconvenience in the grand scheme of things, from my perspective anyway.

Better safe than sorry, and if CCP really does have security issues (both with their threat response and infrastructure), then pulling the cord was a good idea in my opinion.  It may not be the best PR move, and possibly an overreaction, but if it kept someone from getting my personal data I'm all for it.

o7

[Kyoko Sakoda]

I hope they're dumb enough to go after Steam. They'd lose a lot of support among the trolling community immediately.

[Casiella]

That's just it: based on what we know (which is quite a bit, outside the EVE echo chamber), personal data were never at risk.

And if CCP doesn't have the sort of internal visibility to know that, then your data have been and continue to be at risk.

[BloodBird]

I can't help but laugh.

You would all think this was fucking hilarious if they took down World of Warcraft.

Can't speak for everyone else here, but no. No I wouldn't.

[Ken]

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

[Casiella]

I've been in the shoes of their IRT (incident response team) before.

Systems: "Something bad happened!"
Management: "Uh, security, see if there's anything weird on the servers!"
Security: "..."

Also, they now claim to have hit /b/.

[Ellis Croix]

[Senn Typhos]

Fine, Vince. Be a doosh. I'll be killin' Ultranationalists if you need me. >:C

Actually, come to think of it, GameStop doesn't close until 10... I could go snag a pre-own copy of Infamous 2.

Ohmigad, I wanna play me some Infamous 2. I need it! D:

[Kyoko Sakoda]

Lulz on Lulz. "Look, I can use LOIC, too!" etc.

[Casiella]

EVE's back up, BTW.

[Senn Typhos]

Man, what was that, upwards of a few hours?

I never heard of LulzSec before, but they seem like a totally impressive internet badass black ops team.

[Casiella]

They're actually a major threat. They've compromised (not DDoSed) the US Senate, FBI InfraGard, PBS, Nintendo,  and some others.

http://lulzsecurity.com/releases/

[Senn Typhos]

I'll never be impressed by these types. Like I said, breaking stuff for the sake of breaking stuff is a pretty weak lifestyle.

Not to discredit the threat. I'm just not gonna make a terror alert for punks. vOv

[Kyoko Sakoda]

They're actually a major threat. They've compromised (not DDoSed) the US Senate, FBI InfraGard, PBS, Nintendo,  and some others.

http://lulzsecurity.com/releases/

Yeah, I'll grant that they're a more sophisticated Anonymous offshoot. But for their larger targets they're still using basic attacks like SQL injection. Not that I know how to do these things myself, but I do have friends in IT security from my Euro days who tell me their attacks have been simple.