[Cyph3r]

Update 3: Even more super tight security was added. I'd be surprised if the hacker had any way to do anything anymore. Will be monitoring.
Update 2: Because of our security work yesterday, our hacker was only able to make a feeble attempt this morning, along with an equally pathetic server announcement. However, we're committed to keep him off completely. We spent all day working on closing any potential security holes, including making a core patch to block the exploit being used. The realms will be restarted to apply it, and we believe this will prevent the hacker from being able to issue any commands. Tomorrow evening, more security measures will be implemented as well. We've also noticed at least 5 other servers affected by the same hacker - all of which are unable to stop him - but we will. We are also in discussions with TrinityCore (the software our servers run on) in order to resolve the issue permanently. He may still be able to infiltrate through a security hole that even TrinityCore is unaware of, but our custom modifications will drastically (if not completely) make his entry harmless and boring.

Update: We didn't need to do a real rollback to fix the issues. We simply rolled back spell, skill, and talents 16 hours, which for most of you means nothing (just any talent tree changes you made over that period or skills learned, etc.), but for new characters that we're power leveled during that time, it will mean some extra effort. In summary, very minor issue for 99% of you. If you have any issues, please open a GM ticket and be patient. Thanks!

Hello everyone and thank you for your patience through this stressful situation.

As you all know we were targetted by a person or persons wanting to do harm to our server for profit, we have taken some necessary steps in prohibiting the abuse of these "persons" on our server in the future with some core-side modifications to prohibit further abuse on our servers.
We have stepped up our overall security tenfold and will continue to monitor the situation at hand.

To go into further detail they were able to access some commands to reset spells/talents for every character on our realms as well as add some donor items to some vendors and delete some guilds, the Talents/Spells are being restored to this morning as well as Guilds, we have deleted the items from vendors.

Our server personally was not compromised. We shut the realms down to prohibit any future abuse of the commands.

[Necroangel]

Keep up the good job!!

BTW~ I found a spelling mistake cypher!!!!

[kriskoeh]

So, when are you expecting things to be back up??

[braindead94]

so its resting back to this moruning??

[yakity92]

Any idea when the cata realms will be back up?

[nachocheeze13]

Be nice if hackers could get a life and stop ruining things for other people =o
Good work fixing things as fast as you can =)

[bob0krishnan]

Hope u bring redemption back soon, Its sunday.
PS: Why does it have to happen when I just donated TT.

[Drack1994]

hope things go well, and would we be able to recover lost guilds?

[nachocheeze13]

Hope u bring redemption back soon, Its sunday.
PS: Why does it have to happen when I just donated TT.

lol thatd suck :/ I feel for ya ~

[GamingCheap]

Why did they try again?

[C0ll3c70r]

Is it normal to still have missing spells?

[Olivero]

All my professions are gone and all my mounts are gone including the ones I bought from VPs... WTF what kind of BS is this? Every time this happens we have to re lvl our professions and regain our mounts? I'm sorry but this is getting old -_-. What is the server going to do to keep the players happy now?

[darken512]

What kind of rollback can we expect for character levels and items/gold?

[Candyheart211]

so can we play now everything is okay???

[shadestate]

oh wow. So does this mean there are potentially people running around with free Donor items?

[Zononify]

The only time I actually wanted to play WoW, this happens.

Oh, Murphy's Law.

[AngelWarrior]

Am I the only one concerned here? This is the exact same thing that happened a few weeks ago, probably by the same people too. This is the same thing that Cypher and his team said they fixed and wouldn't happen again. Cypher you need to invest in some better protection for the sake of your server. People won't play on a server that is, evidently, prone to being hacked.

[KILLERJESTER789]

All my professions are gone and all my mounts are gone including the ones I bought from VPs... WTF what kind of BS is this? Every time this happens we have to re lvl our professions and regain our mounts? I'm sorry but this is getting old -_-. What is the server going to do to keep the players happy now?

same here im po'd please fix soon

[itzdevin]

Everything is going to be fine guys. The staff are working hard to fix this. For now try not to log in until the staff say otherwise. I'm sure that forums will be made for players to post missing/broken content. But you should not be missing anything. As for donors/voters, Your gear will be restored as all donor/voter gear is backed up and recorded. But they said that the servers were shut down quickly enough, so you should not be missing any gear or items. Just stay calm, and watch for updates.

Cheers,
Itzdevin

[ddwarf]

lmao, Come home from hard day of working sit down bout 2 log on bam, im sorry server been hacked ooooo well things happen I suppose.