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Fractured Online Suffers Hack with All Player Cities Destroyed - Dynamight Studios Responds | MMORPG

SystemSystem Member UncommonPosts: 12,599
edited November 2023 in News & Features Discussion

imageFractured Online Suffers Hack with All Player Cities Destroyed - Dynamight Studios Responds | MMORPG.com

The indie MMO Fractured Online recently made a lot of headway with their relaunch, but earlier today the team at Dynamight Studios found themselves at the receiving end of a severe security breach.

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  • WargfootWargfoot Member EpicPosts: 1,458
    Bad news... I really think they had some momentum going again.
    TyidalLark3m
  • QuizzicalQuizzical Member LegendaryPosts: 25,499
    If they're competent, then it should be a simple enough matter to roll back to shortly before the breach. Maybe you lose an hour or a day of progress, but it should be fixable by a straightforward rollback. If they don't have any such backups in place, then now they know why they need them.
    maskedweaselSovrathValdheimScotTyidalJeroKaneRoin
  • DigDuggyDigDuggy Member RarePosts: 694
    There is a special place in hell for hackers. Especially for ones who attack the little guy. Somewhere, there is a little goblin giggling at the pain he's caused.
    SovrathKatagiriLark3m
  • xylokxylok Member UncommonPosts: 5
    Honestly, the game is in a pretty good state. This is coming from someone who backed it, tried it a few times and I thought it was awful. Population has been pretty good and there has been quite a bit of PvP activity. Almost all of the player city spots are taken up.

    Hope they land back on their feet and get the game going again. It is as close to an Ultima Online experience as I've seen in the MMO world.
    maskedweaselWargfootMMOgamerdad666ValdheimApridise
  • TillerTiller Member LegendaryPosts: 11,485
    Wow this sounds like some of the old MMO hacking hi-jinks from back in the day....they really did a good job replicating the past lol.
    Sovrath
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  • QuizzicalQuizzical Member LegendaryPosts: 25,499
    It sounds like they have the necessary backups, but it will still take some time to restore it.  That's understandable, especially in early access.  If they can't restore things to how they were shortly before the hack, that will be far less understandable.
    Kyleran
  • vonryan123vonryan123 Member UncommonPosts: 516
    Credibility just went to zero. Something like this doesn't just "happen" in 2023. So either they are rookies and f-ed up or didn't care to secure the backend they claim this came from. To have such a massive security flaw like this is going to hurt them. I for one have lost trust with them....again....
    TillerRoin

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  • TillerTiller Member LegendaryPosts: 11,485
    vonryan123 said:
    Credibility just went to zero. Something like this doesn't just "happen" in 2023. So either they are rookies and f-ed up or didn't care to secure the backend they claim this came from. To have such a massive security flaw like this is going to hurt them. I for one have lost trust with them....again....

    Could also be an angry dev, like I said I've seen these types of things before back in the early 2000s lol.
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  • KyleranKyleran Member LegendaryPosts: 44,057
    edited November 2023
    Credibility just went to zero. Something like this doesn't just "happen" in 2023. So either they are rookies and f-ed up or didn't care to secure the backend they claim this came from. To have such a massive security flaw like this is going to hurt them. I for one have lost trust with them....again....
    Things like this happen all of the time in 2023, to much bigger and more savvy companies than this one.

    https://www.reuters.com/technology/hackers-who-breached-casino-giants-mgm-caesars-also-hit-3-other-firms-okta-says-2023-09-19/


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  • GreatswordGreatsword Member RarePosts: 428
    A few months back they admitted that they are broke and all their employees have been working for free for quite a while.

    Maybe one of them had enough of the zero paydays?
    maskedweaselApridise
  • DigDuggyDigDuggy Member RarePosts: 694
    Breeches happen to AAA developers. How much more are indie guys at risk. They are low hanging fruit for 2nd tier hackers I think. I am willing to be that a lot of these guys are disgruntled little goblins who lost some loot, or a war, or some sort of other equally irrelevant thing.
    ScotKyleran
  • ScotScot Member LegendaryPosts: 24,426
    You don't own anything digital, maybe as a silver lining this will drum that home.
  • ScotScot Member LegendaryPosts: 24,426
    edited November 2023

    DigDuggy said:

    Breeches happen to AAA developers. How much more are indie guys at risk. They are low hanging fruit for 2nd tier hackers I think. I am willing to be that a lot of these guys are disgruntled little goblins who lost some loot, or a war, or some sort of other equally irrelevant thing.



    There has to be a reason they were singled out, you are likely spot on.
    Kyleran
  • kitaradkitarad Member LegendaryPosts: 8,177
    Shit man pity them.

  • KyleranKyleran Member LegendaryPosts: 44,057
    kitarad said:
    Shit man pity them.
    The developers, yes.

    The hackers? Should be a capital crime.


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  • KatagiriKatagiri Member UncommonPosts: 89
    It's evil to attack indie games.
    Kyleran
  • EldrachEldrach Member RarePosts: 464
    Tbh, this game isn't too bad. It suffers from boring combat - boring travel and pretty basic citybuilding.

    But, the foundation is there - the combat, with better animations, better pacing - could be quite fun. Travelling is something they can tweak - citybuilding is something that will evolve.

    All in all not a bad indie game - shame people can't help being a-holes on the net.
    Scot
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