In message <471a9e16$0$21925$157c6196@dreader1.cybercity.dk>, Peter
Knutsen <peter.RemoveThis@sagatafl.invalid> writes
>Peter Knutsen wrote:
>> Servers have been down since mid-afternoon (Danish time - Iceland is
>>a couple of hours behind me, so that'd be from around 14.00 GMT or so,
>>believe), and my skill finished training about four hours ago.
>> Anybody know anything? The EVE Online website is down too, so I
>>can't check the forum, or read announcements, or anything. I do
>>remember an announced downtime for Tuesday the 16th, but today is
>>Friday the 19t.
>> Anyone know anything?
>
>I was able to get online a few hours later, so that I could finally set
>a new skill to train. I lost something like 5 or 6 hours of training
>opportunity, so it wasn't a big deal. But it was a very long downtime...
>
Turns out they discovered a security breach which would allow people to
manipulate the database, so they shut everything down until they could
close it. As far as I can make out they think someone may have used it
to manipulate their own records in their favour (giving themselves large
numbers of officer-class mods) but they state categorically that nobody
else has suffered. Presumably the culprit has been thrown out of game,
banned and strapped to a rock in Iceland with crows picking at their
liver (CCP have a robust EULA).
I also missed about 5 hours training but on a character 2.5 years old
that is not going to cause me to lose much sleep.
--
John Secker
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