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.
We are still hard at work. Thanks your your patience. No ETA quite yet. #eveonline #tweetfleet
— EVE Online (@EveOnline) June 2, 2013
While I an not super computer I did some reading and a DDoS attack is when an attacker trying to shut down a server and prevent it preforming it intended service by flooded the server with request and information. As another blogger put it, it is like putting to much air in a ballon and then watching it pop. This is a similar attack that happen to Sony a few years ago and I believe EVE. While I am unsure about what costumer the attackers can get from this, I am happy that CCP looks at these attacks very seriously and is working hard to slove the problem.
Lets hope that the server gets up soon, there are ships to kill.
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