The EVE Online Account Management site has been improved to reflect modern web design standards both visually and in terms of usability. The newly-deployed changes include a complete visual overhaul, giving a consistent look and feel to the site, combined with a choice of languages (German and Russian localization throughout) and drop-down links to all our sites, including EVE Online, EVE Gate and Support. Additionally, the log in process has been improved, and a record of recent account activity is available together with your transaction history.
Account Management has been further enhanced with newly-refined offer pages and services such as the PLEX Store, Buddy Program and reactivation offers. Valued services such as character transfer and ETC trading have been updated, and are always easily accessible via the header menu. The purchasing process has also been refined and made consistent across our products and services. This overhaul to Account Management is just the first step in an ongoing effort to enhance and expand your ability to access EVE Online products and services.
Your account security and data integrity continues to be our primary concern throughout this update. To provide feedback on the new system, please use this thread.
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A message from our COO.
At 17:00 UTC today, CCP became aware of a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) against the EVE Online cluster and web servers.
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.
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 ensure the best possible service for our players and the security of their personal, billing and account information.
We understand the effect this disruption has had for our players and apologize for not having been able to explain fully to the community what was going on. In these cases it can often be counterproductive to containment to give out information while we are in the process of evaluating the scope of any potential problem.
Our taskforce concluded at 22:05 that neither the game servers nor the CCP infrastructure had been breached. Further, we can also confirm that no personal details such as users’ credentials or credit card numbers were exposed through this incident.
The servers were brought back online at 23:00 and we will continue to monitor the situation closely.
Again, we sincerely apologize for this disruption.
Regards,
Jón Hörðdal
Chief Operating Officer
UPDATE: Shortly after service was restored to the EVE Online Tranquility server, the CCP Security Task force became aware of ongoing traffic flooding which prompted them to take the server offline. At 00:30 UTC, Tranquility was brought online again and is being closely monitored. Please be advised that we are prepared to take the server offline again if warranted. We thank you again for your patience and apologize for any inconvenience and sincerely thank you for your continued patience.
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A client update to EVE Online: Incursion 1.6.1 has been deployed. This client update that will resolve the client crash some players have been reporting with minimizing fullscreen and using the autopilot. We strongly suggest that all players, particularly those experiencing client crashes, to install this client update. Full patch notes can be found here.
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Alliance Tournament IX returns to our screens again today in glorious high definition! Tune in to the live stream at 14:50 UTC to make sure you witness all the thrills and spills from today’s live matches. If you are unable to watch the stream for any reason, our Interstellar Correspondents will be keeping you up to date with statistics and match reports on their AT IX site.
We have great prizes to give out today in our Predict a Winner competition. Please refer to this news article for full details.
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Alliance Tournament IX is coming to EVE TV in glorious high definition this weekend. The hosts, CCP Soundwave and CCP Sunset, along with the Alliance Tournament team and experts, invite you join them as 32 teams battle it out to be crowned champions. Will Pandemic Legion retain their crown or will a new challenger come and usurp them? The only way to know for sure is to tune in to EVE TV from 14:50 UTC on Saturday, June 11.
In addition to the many matches this weekend, our friends at Logitech, EVGA, NVIDIA, Shattered Crystal, EON Magazine and Alienware have provided us with a ton of goodies which you can win by joining in the many giveaways and competitions on the EVE Forums, EVE Online Facebook and Twitter pages.
Further details can be found here.
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The next mass test will take place on Tuesday, June 14 at 20:00 UTC, and will be held on the Singularity Server. We will continue testing of the new turret graphics as well as server code improvments. The SisiLauncher tool is available for this test.
We need at least 350 players to come out and test but 550 would be the ideal number for this test. Testing should last between 60 to 90 minutes and all participants will receive two million skillpoints on Singularity, helping you test out even more turrets.
See this thread for more information about how you can take part and this EVElopedia article for more information on mass testing.
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During our regularly scheduled downtime at 11:00 UTC, we will be deploying a client update that will resolve the client crash some players have been reporting. We do not anticipate an extended downtime. We strongly suggest that all players, particularly those experiencing client crashes, to install this client update.
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The EVE Online: Incarna feature site is now live! Deploying on June 21, 2011, EVE Online: Incarna brings the universe of EVE to a whole new level. Learn more about this exciting expansion by visiting the EVE Online: Incarna feature site, and be sure to check back periodically for all the latest news and updates.
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