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#61 - 2013-06-03 20:45:14 UTC
Ronix Aideron wrote:
http://community.eveonline.com/news/news-channels/eve-online-news/tranquility-downtime-on-sunday-june-2-and-monday-june-3/

It was not a DDoS attack but someone or a group that was able to exploit a vulnerability to some back-end services.


I read the same thing you did. What is says doesn't mean it wasn't a DDoS attack. CCP has not changed that explanation (at least as far as I've seen). I read that as meaning that CCP was a victim of "a significant and sustained distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) against the Tranquility cluster" and that it was a DDoS attack that took "advantage of a vulnerability in one of the back-end services that support the operation of the Tranquility server."

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