City of Heroes/Villains Game Servers Hacked

[atricks]

  I was playing the game tongiht and got an odd message just before the servers went down, with a message  You have been hacked. city.xpt.net

Has a game of this scale ever been compromised like this?

The link points to a free forum website which is now down or stressed... but managed to get out of this before it down.  It looks like a honest to goodness server hack.

Edit: It happened again, got a screencap this time.



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I said it, not you.
3 1 Dec 21 2005, 04:26 AM
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Second down? Protector!
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I'm pissed!
Good for you.
1 0 Dec 21 2005, 04:25 AM
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i am impressed
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I'm happy/amused.
Uh.. huh.
1 0 Dec 21 2005, 04:27 AM
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Someone is FIRED
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I felt like giving you a few different places to post.
1 0 Dec 21 2005, 04:24 AM
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The Week Before Christmahan...
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Why'd you do it?
Pester me here.
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You killed my family!
Really? I'm impressed.
1 0 Dec 21 2005, 04:27 AM
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You kill my master!
By: Mister Chung
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[schild]

Wow.

[Der Helm]

Hm, why is the Admin-Text so out of focus ?


Edit: Just found this on the official boards

Edit^2: Another thread started by one of the Rednames, with a little bit of info on page 1 and 2

[schild]

Red bleeds in low quality jpgs. Especially bold red. Sharp red lines are one of the single best reasons to game in hi-def on the 360. Neon lights in the Tokyo stuff on PGR and PDZ actually look right.

[Der Helm]

Red bleeds in low quality jpgs. Especially bold red.

Ah, you learn something every day on this boards.

But why in the name of your favourite deity are you awake ?

Shouldn't it be something around 3:00 am over there ?

Edit: Spellcheck does not help if you type the wrong word.

[schild]

1am. It's a long night, lots of stuff to do. I'll probably be up til 2pm or so (as in 13 hours from now).

[Der Helm]

I seriously hope you are getting paid for that.

[schild]

F13.net is a labor of something. Definately not a labor of cash flow.

[Der Helm]

F13.net is a labor of something. Definately not a labor of cash flow.

You could always sell addspace to Smedley ...

 

[eldaec]

Has a game of this scale ever been compromised like this?

Well, there was the time someone got hold of a daoc admin account and decided it would be funny to spawn Legion and hib_dragon in emain. (actually that *was* funny, arguably one of the better events ever staged in daoc in fact)

[Der Helm]

(... arguably one of the better events ever staged in daoc in fact)

There were events in DaoC ?

[schild]

(... arguably one of the better events ever staged in daoc in fact)

There were events in DaoC ?

This one time, as a party trick, Mark Jacobs met and proceeded to eat every single attendee at one of those fanfaire type events. Goddamn was it a site to behold. He picked his teeth with a freshly sharped femur removed from a 13 year old catholic schoolgirl. It was, by far, the best event outsi.... Ohhhhhh IN DAoC. I don't remember any.

[Der Helm]

This one time, as a party trick, Mark Jacobs met and proceeded to eat every single attendee at one of those fanfaire type events. Goddamn was it a site to behold. He picked his teeth with a freshly sharped femur removed from a 13 year old catholic schoolgirl. It was, by far, the best event outsi.... Ohhhhhh IN DAoC. I don't remember any.

Get some sleep, you are scaring the children

[Llava]

Word is that he was only able to hijack the Admin channel and the server on/off switch, along with some other minor things.

Still the biggest hack I've seen in a MMOG, to be sure.  Glad I decided to watch the Nip // Tuck season finale last night with my girlfriend instead of playing CoV.