Shadowbane Servers Hacked, Chaos Ensues

Vanguard(DC) writes "There was a major hacking incident last night on the servers of Shadowbane, a newly released MMORPG by UbiSoft/Wolfpack. The attackers wreaked havoc on at least one game server, with apparent god-like capabilities in-game. There's already an official statement on the forums - 'Ubi Soft and Wolfpack Studios are now working with law enforcement, and we promise all of you that these individuals will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.'" There's a little more information via a post on the SBCatacombs messageboard - apparently the carnage (including many less powerful players getting killed) involved "..teleporting people all over the world, teleporting hostile guards into the safe-holds, bringing in hordes of special event monsters, and teleporting everyone to a city at the bottom of the sea."

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Slashdot in Action

[E1ven]

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-Colin

Re:game world != real world...

[The Original Yama]

" if that will happen, then WHO will take responsibility for all the holes in Windows?! "

I hope WHO does take responsibility for all the holes in Windows. IMHO using Windows is a health risk.

Re:game world != real world...

[Oliver Wendell Jones]

I really, really, really wish that one of the game companies would grow a pair and write code to search through all the 'official' discussion boards for their games and look for the words 'subscription' and 'cancel' and then trace the posters name and actually CANCEL THEIR SUBSCRIPTION.

It seems like every time every game posts every patch there is some subset of the population who feels that the changes in the patch were designed to solely screw them out of whatever their favorite way of playing is and in response they are going to cancel their subscription. Then a week later you seem them bitching about something else because they haven't actually cancelled their subscription and they've found something else they don't like.