Eve Online Servers Taken Down by Rogue DDOS'ers

[Krack3r]

CCP the owners of the largest MMOG Eve online stated that their servers where under strain from some rogue ddos attack. This persistent attack eventually broke through and CCP opted to take down the game servers and web services. Ccp where quick to respond to the stranded players about what had befallen them. Here is what CCP posted on their Facebook page.

At 02:05 GMT June 2nd, CCP
became aware of a significant and
sustained distributed denial-of-
service attack (DDoS) against the
Tranquility cluster (which houses
EVE Online and DUST 514) and web
servers.
Our policy in such cases is to
mobilize a taskforce of internal and
external experts to evaluate the
situation. At 03:07 GMT, that group
concluded that our best course of
action was to go completely offline
while we put in place mitigation
plans.
While we initially reopened EVE
Online and DUST 514, we have since
re-evaluated. With the highest sense
of precaution we have taken
Tranquility and associated websites
back down for further investigation
and an exhaustive scan of our entire
infrastructure. We will update you
more frequently via our Twitter feed
(www.twitter.com/eveonline ),
however, an extended service
interruption of several hours is
expected as this process should not
be rushed.

As we patiently wait for them to fix the issue, let's get busy.