Hacky Holidays, says City of Heroes intruder

'Tis the season of goodwill and friendship, and what better way to celebrate than by hacking into a popular MMOG? Just as everyone at Cryptic and NCsoft started winding down for the holiday, a hacker managed to gain unauthorised administrative access to two City of Heroes servers, sending broadcast messages to all players and shutting down the servers a number of times.
 
Fortunately, the issue was fixed quickly, and neither the intruder nor anyone else will be able to repeat the feat. Also, official sources have announced that account data was not compromised. What's interesting is that since the City of Heroes/City of Villains holiday event is centred around a trickster character called the Gamester, several players immediately thought that the intrusion was related to the Gamester and made up part of the festivities. The intruder's plugging of his own website managed to shatter the illusion, but without that, players could still have been wondering about it today.

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