Originally Posted by
hdev_swc
The physical server, which was set up as a hypervisor for multiple servers, had a hard fault that caused the machine to be taken down without us being notified. The root cause was said to be a failed drive, though the hardware should have been fine to have a drive hot swapped in and that did not happen. Our host replaced the drive while the machine was down, which took much longer than expected. The event logs support the theory that the drives could have been imaged during this time. The timing of the outage was also very suspect.
Unlike the password fiasco from a couple years ago, this wasn't a break in attempt to steal funds; it appears to have been an attempt to get information about the operator of the server. There is still the possibility that it was a freak timing and hardware coincidence but given everything that was happening we couldn't seriously write off the events as coincidence. The reality is that it was becoming clear that no matter where your server is hosted, it is going to be under constant attack. If not from people trying to break in to steal, then by people trying to extort money from you, and with the NGCB actions, from governments.
We always put the security of player balances first and with everything going on around us, it was getting to the point that I didn't know if we could honestly live up to that.
