All of you have noticed the downtime, and there is a reason for that outside of our control at the moment.
We are under heavy heavy DDoS attack from someone named Ryan Cleary (francis.madsen@gmail.com is his msn). He has been hitting all of our boxes as well as the vent over the past 48-72 hours. While I'm not saying this attack is orchestrated by Silent, I do find it overly conspicuous that he has an admin over on his network with the name "Ryan" which was changed from "FrancisM" on June 30th.
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Francis.Madsen@Gmail.com
francis says (2:13 AM):
wow
you hacked my vent spamming
how do you like
my constant syn flood
on your servers
why don't you use your hacking skills bro?
Hacker says (2:13 AM):
Huh?
francis says (2:13 AM):
i'm the one attacking you.
Hacker says (2:13 AM):
Oh, thats cool.
What do you want then?
francis says (2:14 AM):
why dont you hack me, hacker
i want to watch shitty wow communitys die
Hacker says (2:14 AM):
You must have a pretty disgusting life then, if you do that for fun.
francis says (2:14 AM):
you're really ignorant for a "Hacker"
let's see
ive been hitting you with 80k bots for a week
francis says (2:15 AM):
what does someone with 80k+ peaks on his net
do with them?
oh yes
spam, cpi, ppa, ppi
i earn more in 2 months than you do in a year
now
i have no terms
i just want to see you burn
Hacker says (2:15 AM):
Well have fun with that.
Here is some scrapped up info on him.
CODE
Ryan Cleary
Last vent IP: 92.237.254.91
Home Address:
33 Royal Oak Dr,
Wickford, Essex, UK
Date of Birth:
Unknown, 16 as of July 22nd 2008
Home Address:
33 Royal Oak Dr,
Wickford, Essex, UK
(Confirmed)
Aliases:
Viral
Kawika Carmichael
Ryan
TeamSpeakFree
ryan.cleary@gmail.com
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additional:
+44 7510557265
10 south beech avenue wickford, Essex, UK
GfWL: francismadsen
Once we're able to lock things down the servers will be back online.
Again, there isn't much we can do at the moment but we are working on keeping this kid off of the network. Thank you for those who have stuck around and will continue to stick around, your patience and dedication is what is keeping all of the staff here from losing our minds. For those worried about your accounts / characters they are all still there and will be there when the servers come back online.
Update: After Silent had been caught in his bluff about not knowing Ryan/Francis/Fuck-Face he removed him as admin and immediately sent me an IM saying Ryan doesn't work for him.
Saad says (4:50 PM):
ryan doesn't work for us
Hacker says (4:50 PM):
not anymore he doesnt
Saad says (4:50 PM):
and I did not orchestrate any attacks against you guys
Hacker says (4:50 PM):
fucking just got demoted
Saad says (4:51 PM):
and if he's doing something, then you must have pissed him off some how
and I can't stop him from doing anything
Hacker says (4:52 PM):
Sure man, whatever you say.
Saad says (4:52 PM):
just stating the facts
Hacker says (4:53 PM):
kinda funny how you IM'd me
after you demoted him
Saad says (4:54 PM):
I Im'd you to tell you that I have no hand in your servers being ddos'd.
nor does Crusade Gaming
Saad says (4:55 PM):
not that it matters to you, since you'll keep blaming things on us without proof, but it's no problem.