what silence, they literally posted that it was down, how is that silence?
That was out of their control that we got attacked by the McDonald's hamburger flipper kid. That was DDOS. Theoretically this could be part of the same process, and the kid may have gotten some "upper help" to figure how to bypass security and exploit vulnerabilities of the login server that could be partially shielded. This maybe the case since no explanation for this downtime. It is at the least embarrassing, we can understand that.
I get theres not much you can do about DDoS, isn't my first time with them thats for sure. My primary issue with all these outages is the outright lack of communication so we can have some understanding, as a community, whats actually going on. "We're aware and fixing it" is hardly what I call communication when it tells us nothing. Patience only goes so far when you're continually told nothing by any offical sources about a persistent issue.
the servers had been down for under a hour before they posted.
Still cant connectUP AGAIN... hopefully forever
You still on???
All 3 clients work. There is a patch.
i did the patch only thing working is E.C. but not C.C. i login about 15mins withn cc then i couldnt login in again.
i have no idea how to answer that.
Well, think about it this way, if you were them. What are our choices? Call the Feds for federal cybercrime? Good luck, they would put us in bottom priority, "its just a game". Then they would "put in a work order", and "ok, we will look into that (lol)".
This doesn't excuse them from communicating...Well, think about it this way, if you were them. What are our choices? Call the Feds for federal cybercrime? Good luck, they would put us in bottom priority, "its just a game". Then they would "put in a work order", and "ok, we will look into that (lol)".
Hire a cybersleuth find where the packets are coming from, and identify the juvenile delinquent? The cybersleuth id's the ip's that are sending us these "gifts" and also the kid's identity address etc. Now what? What are the consequences to uo? Pay mint for the hired expert, then what? hire a legal department to go after the kid/hacker? Another super major cost. Would t he kid face the consequences of the federal cybercrime he/she is committing?
I suspect they are trying to mitigate this themselves, with perhaps some outside help and software/hardware that will not break the bank.
It is embarrassing to say the least, to admit that one immature hacker can bring their business to a screeching halt. We can all assume they are themselves fuming mad about this, and trying to fix this. They are also victims of this as all of us.
