Taskforce mobilized to evaluate risk.
Jón Hörðdal, chief operating officer at CCP, has responded to last night’s service outage with a statement on the developer’s website.
“At 17:00 UTC today, CCP became aware of a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) against the EVE Online cluster and web servers,” he wrote.
“Our policy in such cases is to mobilize a taskforce of internal and external experts to evaluate the situation. At 17:55 UTC, that group concluded that our best course of action was to go completely offline while an exhaustive scan of our entire infrastructure was executed.”