Topic (Locked) City Exploit Hotfixed
Nethaera
Nethaera
Community Manager
Earlier today, certain realms were affected by an in-game exploit, resulting in the deaths of player characters and non-player characters in some of the major cities. This exploit has already been hotfixed, so it should not be repeatable. It's safe to continue playing and adventuring in major cities and elsewhere in Azeroth.

As with any exploit, we are taking this disruptive action very seriously and conducting a thorough investigation. If you have information relating to this incident, please email hacks@blizzard.com. We apologize for the inconvenience some of you experienced as a result of this and appreciate your understanding.
Lilly
Moon Guard
Lilly
90 Human Warlock
9200
Bravo. It was funny for a second, but I'm glad it's been fixed.
Umunguss
Altar of Storms
Umunguss
90 Orc Rogue
2135
check out tenris its bad there
Darkarwyn
Maelstrom
Darkarwyn
90 Goblin Mage
7090
Bahah. Good job.
Stevebuscemi
Rexxar
Stevebuscemi
85 Undead Rogue
It
7705
I have three acounts i cannot get on
Thorawulfe
Cenarion Circle
Thorawulfe
90 Night Elf Mage
5410
Thankyou for this, and I hope you can successfully punish those responsible.
Debris
Cenarius
Debris
62 Night Elf Druid
9465
Well... The people who were responsible for this attack are the same people who crashed the servers a few weeks ago and have been messing around with the game for quite some time now. I wouldn't be surprised if they were the ones who stole all the account information a while back. I really wish you would do something about them...
Marryse
Moon Guard
Marryse
90 Human Warrior
7330
Taking it very seriously huh? Why dont you BAN THEM then? There shouldn't BE an investigation, its public knowledge! You can see the names in the game and the videos! Maybe if you got off your duffs and watched some, you could see who it is?
Fereelorn
Kirin Tor
Fereelorn
90 Night Elf Hunter
6350
How is an exploit anyone elses fault but blizzards? Isn't exploiting something the same as taking advantage of something that's all ready there? I geuss my question is how can some one be punished for useing something that was part of the game? Unless by exploit they mean hacked.
Bloodsocket
Cenarion Circle
Bloodsocket
12 Gnome Monk
5315
Edited by Bloodsocket on 10/7/12 2:47 PM (PDT)
10/07/2012 02:45 PMPosted by Fereelorn
Unless by exploit they mean hacked.


If you have information relating to this incident, please email hacks@blizzard.com.


2 + 2 = reasonable inference
Shalanas
Saurfang
Shalanas
90 Night Elf Priest
9915
This exploit, along with crashing the servers, the DoT being cast on friendlies bug, and a couple of others have seen the same people be involved in them, if you're so serious about it maybe it's time to start handing down permanent bans? I see the same people who I know are responsible still running around in org. It's ridiculous.
Andoea
Shadowmoon
Andoea
85 Human Priest
4475
We need to be able to kill our own faction.

Kill the spammers, idiots, ninjas etc... It would bring some fun PvP back into the cities ><
Kitez
Stormreaver
Kitez
90 Tauren Druid
6175
personally i like it when this stuff happens. everyone complaining now will be telling this story fondly in a few months
Xanaa
Boulderfist
Xanaa
87 Blood Elf Paladin
5490
10/07/2012 02:43 PMPosted by Marryse
Taking it very seriously huh? Why dont you BAN THEM then? There shouldn't BE an investigation, its public knowledge! You can see the names in the game and the videos! Maybe if you got off your duffs and watched some, you could see who it is?


1. They were using trial accounts behind proxies, so they can't get their mains from that.

2. Even if they do find and ban their mains, nothing says they won't buy another copy of the game when it's on sale and get right back to it.
Unjoiner
Silvermoon
Unjoiner
90 Dwarf Paladin
12565
Thanks for the info and the hard work you guys put in to get the game back up and running :)
Daghar
Ner'zhul
Daghar
16 Orc Warrior
40
How is an exploit anyone elses fault but blizzards? Isn't exploiting something the same as taking advantage of something that's all ready there? I geuss my question is how can some one be punished for useing something that was part of the game? Unless by exploit they mean hacked.


If someone picks your lock and steals your things, how is that anyone else's fault but your own?
Gambles
The Underbog
Gambles
85 Orc Shaman
10015

As with any exploit, we are taking this disruptive action very seriously


Seriously? You typed that with a straight face? Or are these guys not sponsored so its ok to take action?
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