They've now addressed the hacking issues that have plagued their game, sending out reassurances that it should, for the most part, be safe now. "Both the login fix and the Coin Lock addition have been doing their part in significantly reducing overall incidents over the last 18 hours," reassured Scott Harsman via the forums. "Neither one is a silver bullet, but so far it is looking to be a solid one-two punch for the weekend."

They're not about to sit pretty with only those adjustments in place. The devs are also maintaining their guard by boosting up the blocking bots and hackers, hiring additional security staff, and coming up witha  two-factor authentication process.

Apart from that, however, he also tipped his hat to a hacker who proved very helpful in pointing out a serious log-in vulnerability. An "ethical hacker" as ManWitDaPlan is now being called, says he got an "insane" response from Trion.

"I wasn't contacted by some support flunky with no authority to do anything but read from a script, I was on the phone with the development lead. I sent the technical details and got a call back within minutes. Left work to head home, and by the time I got home the server team lead was calling.

Before I finished eating dinner the exploit was fixed, some extra features were improved, and all of Telara was cursing my name for making them go hunt down and unlock code in their mail."

Via [Massively]

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