EVE Online extreme downtime?

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, I
> 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...

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Peter Knutsen
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In message <471a9e16$0$21925$157c6196@dreader1.cybercity.dk>, Peter
Knutsen <peter DeleteThis @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.
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John Secker
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John Secker wrote:
> 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.

Mine was born in February or March this year, and has been training
continously. So no big deal, just annoying...

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Peter Knutsen
sagatafl.org
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