Until some neck beard gets a life and moves out of mommy's basment. Lol

Seriously it's a little sad.

DDoS attacks will continue as long as CCP uses Cold War era servers.

"Would.You.Like.To.Play.A.Game?"

I think you sincerely underestimate just how big the people that are doing this are.

Actually I think hackers are worse than common thieves. Obviously educated, yet this is what they chose to do?

Personally if I met one I would smash his hands beyond reconstruction.

Okay there tough guy. Please tell us more about how awesome you'd be in non-occuring fictitious situation #305122581239 let me guess, right after you did that you'd go knock up all the supermodels in your harem because you felt so manly?

I think you sincerely underestimate just how big the people that are doing this are.

Well.. Yes

And hackers should be feared like cancer and Ebola. And if they disappeared from the world today nobody would miss them.

Wish I had my cancer back, said nobody ever.

oftin times the purpose of a DDoS attack is to serve as a red herring to distract from another operation going on.

aka its used as a cover for info theft or the implementation of some sort of back door to be used at a later date.

the other common cause is that it tends to be used as an initiation ritual in certain circles.


when this is done change all your passwords as a precaution.

Okay there tough guy. Please tell us more about how awesome you'd be in non-occuring fictitious situation #305122581239 let me guess, right after you did that you'd go knock up all the supermodels in your harem because you felt so manly?

CCP's servers haven't been hacked into so far. This is mainly because CCP has a strict policy on how to deal with situations like this. If the DDoS attack reaches a certain level in terms of how much traffic is crammed into their server, they simply pull the plug... literally. Sadly this is the only time hamsters ever get a break from powering Tranquility.

This is obviously not the first time this happened and certainly won't be the last. If you guys recall what happened with Sony almost 5 years ago when the PlayStation Network went down for 3 months, CCP, along with the developers for League of Legends, got DDoS'ed by LULSEC which is an offshoot of Anonymous. CCP was the only company that didn't have their server compromised out of the whole lot because, again, they literally pulled the plug when they saw what was about to happen. Sure, it may damage a node or two in the process, but CCP won't care about that as long as the data is safe and backed up into a separate offline server.

Of course, players still took the precautionary route and changed their passwords anyways just because it made them feel a little more secure especially for those prized Titan pilots or players in very powerful positions.