October 23rd, 2007

New Security Breach Shuts Down EVE Online

On Friday, CPP, the owner of the massive online multiplayer game
EVE Online, made public the fact that they have discovered a security breach.

The game went offline, while the team of experts was trying to fix the anomaly founded in the database, which indicated an exploit.
Jon Horodal, CPP chief operating officer, declared that "What we discovered was an indication that one of our databases was being accessed through a security breach. While some may feel that such a drastic reaction was not warranted, it is always our approach to err on the side of caution in order to protect the players."

After a short period of time, the security breach problem has been solved and things went back to normal.
The company announced that no personal information or credit card numbers were exposed.

There are some rumors though, saying that one of the CCP database administrators was a victim of a keylogger, fact denied by the CPP.
Steven Davis, CEO of game security company SecurePlay believes that "The most likely scenario is that the Eve operational team has a live Internet connection and that a worm or other tool was used to access the game database."

This is not the first time EVE Online is implicated in a security scandal.
It happened previously, in 2006, when an insider was accused of giving confidential information to players.