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Erik Rutins -> Revenge of Mars! On the Slitherine Server (3/9/2012 8:54:58 PM)
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It's been another long night and hard day with further sustained malicious attacks on the Slitherine server. We had to take the site offline to protect it and repair the damage and after many hours it is now back online. This did not affect the Matrix Games servers, however as the PBEM multiplayer system is hosted on the Slitherine server, that was affected and some turns were lost. Read on for more details.
The latest attack was completely different to the initial one and affected the server in a different way. While the changes we made did not stop the attack, this time we were able to trace how they got in and added extra protection to ensure this cannot happen again. In addition we were able to trace the IP address where the attack originated which is a huge step forwards in tracking down who did this.
As a result of the latest attack we have unfortunately lost some more data. This means any multiplayer turns played on the 8th March will be lost and games will revert to their state on the 7th March. We have also lost forum posts from the 8th March. The PBEM system is not fully online yet but we will have it back up in the next couple of hours.
To be clear, this is not an intrusion that affected customer data or the online store (which is in a completely different location on different servers and behind much more security), nor did it affect the Matrix Games servers.
We'd like to apologise again for any inconvenience. Thanks for your continued patience and support.
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