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EVE Online Targeted By LulzSec
lordsilence writes "It seems LulzSec is now targeting CCP Games' Eve Online with a denial of service attack. The extent of this attack is yet not known but the game cluster and EVEOnline.com website are down at the writing of this post.. A possible reason for targeting CCP could be the affiliation with Sony. CCP recently announced during E3 that their upcoming game Dust514 would be Sony Playstation 3 exclusive."
This has to do with their Twitter feed. They were asking people for suggestions on who to aim for. Someone called in and must have requested Eve online. They stated they intended to take down the login server, but it also accidentally took down the webserver.
Here's their offer: http://twitter.com/#!/LulzSec/status/80675710246723584
Here's their following post with the result: http://twitter.com/#!/LulzSec/status/80681360292978688
Looks like they also took down the minecraft login server, escapistmagazine's web server, and finfisher's web server (some IS company?). They're calling it TitanicTakeoverTuesday.
Nothing to do with quality of PSN vs Xbox Live community. CCP has flat-out stated that they couldn't do it on Xbox because microsoft's networking policies wouldn't have allowed the game to work they way they needed it to to properly interact with EVE.
Considering they once took it so seriously they were going to cut the power to the home of a pilot of a Titan ship in game to keep him from logging on, I don't think it's that far of a stretch to avoid pissing off some of the russian players.
Not BS either, see: http://www.tentonhammer.com/node/65475/page/3
As a rock-in-roll Physicist once said, No matter where you go, there you are.
LOIC just floods a server, it's not a terribly useful tool for anything other than DDoS. For Anonymous, that's good enough.
LulzSec though wants to go after blood - userlists, corporate data, etc. You need a fancier tool than LOIC to do that, and some skill.
Anonymous would just make EVE harder to play by increasing lag of the entire game. LulzSec would really just mess things up by zeroing everyone's balance or giving tons of money or screwing with everyone's stats.