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Peter Knutsen wrote:
> Anyone know anything?

http://eve.coldfront.net/article/19

The Coldfront pages are great for EVE and EVE related news (and I like 
their devblog feed layout better).

TheSmokingGnu

On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 22:50:35 +0200, Peter Knutsen
<peter@sagatafl.invalid> wrote:

>Anyone know anything?

	They had a hacker, hack in to effect his/her account, in other
words cheat.   They shut down all the servers to deal with it.  This
person no longer has an account with EVE.

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...

-- 
Peter Knutsen
sagatafl.org

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

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...

-- 
Peter Knutsen
sagatafl.org