CCP has released an official statement about the attack that was launched on EVE Online:
At 17:00 GMT today, CCP became aware of a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) attack against the EVE Online cluster and web servers.
Immediately, these services were taken offline. As an added precaution, all of CCP's infrastructure was disconnected from the public Internet.
The CCP Security team is conducting a thorough investigation to determine exactly what happened and how, what the possible impact may be and, first and foremost, assuring that any personal information of our customers remains secure.
More information will be released as it’s available.
Immediately, these services were taken offline. As an added precaution, all of CCP's infrastructure was disconnected from the public Internet.
The CCP Security team is conducting a thorough investigation to determine exactly what happened and how, what the possible impact may be and, first and foremost, assuring that any personal information of our customers remains secure.
More information will be released as it’s available.
Also, in good news, The Escapist seems to be back up.
Now apparently LulzSec has targeted the League of Legends login site:
LulzSec The Lulz Boat
Just to clarify, we're currently not hitting the League of Legends website at all... our cannonfire on the login server must be wrecking it.
[Original Story]
It never ends. The seemingly endless wave of hacker attacks against video game websites continues today. This time the victims are Minecraft, EVE Online, and the gaming blog The Escapist.
The hacker group LulzSec claims it's behind the attacks, which temporarily disabled the Minecraft log-in server. We just tested a couple of our Minecraft accounts, and at the time of this writing, we were able to log in to the game and play. Minecraft.net is also currently functional. However, numerous reports via Twitter and other Internet sites did say that the game was down for a time earlier today. Let's hope Mojang has things sorted out.
EVE Online was not so lucky. The game's official site is currently non-responsive. The game's Twitter account confirmed the attack with this tweet:
EVE Online and related services experienced an Internet attack. We have taken them down as a security precaution. #eveonline #tweetfleet
As for The Escapist, the video game and news opinion site is currently not loading after numerous attempts to access it.
The hacker group LulzSec claims it's behind the attacks, which temporarily disabled the Minecraft log-in server. We just tested a couple of our Minecraft accounts, and at the time of this writing, we were able to log in to the game and play. Minecraft.net is also currently functional. However, numerous reports via Twitter and other Internet sites did say that the game was down for a time earlier today. Let's hope Mojang has things sorted out.
EVE Online was not so lucky. The game's official site is currently non-responsive. The game's Twitter account confirmed the attack with this tweet:
EVE Online and related services experienced an Internet attack. We have taken them down as a security precaution. #eveonline #tweetfleet
As for The Escapist, the video game and news opinion site is currently not loading after numerous attempts to access it.
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